Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp
Mason City, IA · EIN 31-1373080. Reported 99 grants totalling $5,827,911 to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E210) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 36% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 72% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $44,138; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $525,909. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubuque Mercy Health Foundation | Dubuque, IA | $2,071,498 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City Foundation | Sioux City, IA | $1,166,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Iowa Community Action Organization | Mason City, IA | $454,818 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| YMCA and Rehabilitation Center | Mason City, IA | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northern Lights Alliance for the Homeless Inc | Mason City, IA | $262,164 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dyersville Health Foundation Inc | Dyersville, IA | $261,034 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Healthy Harvest of North Iowa | Clear Lake, IA | $221,099 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Greater Dubuque Development Corporation | Dubuque, IA | $90,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dubuque Community Schools | Dubuque, IA | $78,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mason City Community Schools | Mason City, IA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque | Dubuque, IA | $65,300 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| North Iowa Vocational Center Inc | Mason City, IA | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crescent Community Health Center | Dubuque, IA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church | Dubuque, IA | $48,024 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Iowa Corridor Economic Development Corporation | Mason City, IA | $44,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mason City Youth Hockey Association Inc | Mason City, IA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Dubuque for Refugee Children | Dubuque, IA | $37,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Northeast Iowa Comm Action Corp | Decorah, IA | $30,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dubuque Rescue Mission | Dubuque, IA | $27,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare System | Winnebago, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdioce Se of Dubuque Iowa | Dubuque, IA | $24,340 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Halleland Health Consulting Inc | Mason City, IA | $23,333 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Holy Family Catholic Schools | Dubuque, IA | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Warming Shelter Inc | Sioux City, IA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce | Dubuque, IA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Dubuque Area Tri- States | Dubuque, IA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mitchell County Regional Health Ctr | Osage, IA | $14,286 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Heartland Counseling Services Inc | S Sioux City, NE | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Medical Center Foundation North Iowa | Mason City, IA | $12,069 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Kansas City, MO | $11,379 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Sioux City | Sioux City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cerro Gordo County | Mason City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Iowa Dental Foundation | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| NAMI Dubuque | Dubuque, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hancock County Health System Foundation | Britt, IA | $6,667 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Iowa Area Community College Foundation | Mason City, IA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Diocese of Sioux City | Sioux City, IA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
22 of 39 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- North Iowa Community Action
COPA PROGRAM AND TRANSPORTATION SUPPORT - Mason City Community Schools
FIELD HOUSE AND PLAYGROUND PROJECTS - Healthy Harvest of North Ia
COOKING UP A HEALTHIER NORTH IOWA PROGRAM - Northern Lights Alliance for the Homeless
COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR HOMELESS SHELTERS - 43 North Iowa
CRISIS SERVICES AND TRANSITION LIVING CENTER - Crescent Community Health Center
OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO HEALTH CARE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 22 | $1,016,954 | $19,375 |
| 2021 | 21 | $1,015,566 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 18 | $1,302,676 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $1,068,617 | $18,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $1,424,098 | $13,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1000 4TH Street Sw, Mason City, IA, 50401.
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