Mercy Medical Ministry

Analysis

Mercy Medical Ministry is a registered charity in United States, based in Opelika, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mercy Medical Ministry reported income of $617k and spending of $522k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $374k to $617k (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mercy Medical Ministry sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 77th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include End of Life Washington ($617k), Cross Connections Inc ($617k) and Diabetes Foundation of the High Plains ($617k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $116k (22% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $255k. At year end it held assets of $449k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $449k. It reported 24 employees.