Mercyworksincorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161553234
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154356934
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $611,639
- Expenses
- $773,305
- Assets
- $1,497,111
- Liabilities
- $22,694
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV JOHN R CARTER (PRESIDENT)
- REV LISA L CARTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- REV AMY CARTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- REV JOHN R CARTER (PRESIDENT)
- REV LISA L CARTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ADDISON SPEARS (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mercyworks, incorporated, is dedicated to inspiring vision, creating opportunity and cultivating purpose with young people and adults by partnering with residents, businesses, schools and non-profit organizations. Within these partnerships we seek to identify and meet individual and community needs that otherwise would go unmet. We purpose to be a catalyst to gather and partner in order to transform a community and the lives impacted by it.
What it reported doing in 2024
Passport to vision - a weeklong life-changing experience for girls that fosters a positive self-image, vision and focus. Middle and high school girls will develop a strategy to realize their dreams. Designed to be a personal journey and group experience that has an intimate feel. The program addresses topics that are relevant to girls during a time when they need it most. Mother-daughter relations are highlighted through topics that interweave the necessity of developing a restorative relationship with their moms, develop a vision for their future along with goal setting & career planning and finance. The week incorporates speakers planned according to themes, activities to lighten mood and provide brief respites from difficult topics. Our engaging format is also designed to create a sense of community between the participants. The program engages students in safe and open conversation about atopics that are relevant to this generation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.3% of revenue deployed · 48.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $375K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.