Mercy Health

Analysis

Mercy Health is a registered charity in United States, based in Chesterfield, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1946, 80 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Mercy Health reported income of $4.4m and spending of $67.5m, spending 1534% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $85.8m to $4.4m (-95%), an average of -52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 14334%. Over the whole period it spent 53% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mercy Health sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 90th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sheltering Arms Corporation ($4.4m), National Healthcare Research and Education Finance Corporation ($4.4m) and Lakeview Health ($4.4m).

At year end it held assets of $3.97bn against liabilities of $2.59bn, net assets of $1.37bn.