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MERCY UNLIMITED INC

EIN 34-1749288 WAPAKONETA, OH

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Revenue 2024
$4,000,078
Expenses 2024
$3,947,840

Program services were 95.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 71

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO REFLECT THE LOVE OF CHRIST BY MINISTERING UNTO THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY, THIRSTY, HOMELESS, IN NEED OF CLOTHING, SICK AND IMPRISONED

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO REFLECT THE LOVE OF CHRIST BY MINISTERING UNTO THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY THIRSTY HOMELESS IN NEED OF CLOTHING SICK AND IMPRISONED

  • PROVIDED EMERGENCY FOOD TO 1,914 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $200,141

  • PROVIDED FOOD BOXES FOR LOW INCOME WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND VETS IN EASTERN AUGLAIZE COUNTY. SERVED 709 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $18,601

  • PROVIDED EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES IN EASTERN AUGLAIZE COUNTY. SERVED 92 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $6,770

  • PROVIDED EMERGENCY SERVICES, HOMELESS PROGRAMS, INNER AGENCY FUNDING FOR EASTERN AUGLAIZE COUNTY

    Expenses $335,198

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sheryl Fordney

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $46,956
    From this org
    $46,956
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Amanda Tangeman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Schlosser

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Barbara Barnhart

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Betty Elsass

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jill Jarvis

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cindy Colaprete

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,000,078
    Expenses
    $3,947,840
    Contributions
    $3,615,380
    Grants paid
    $3,519,012
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,149,162
    Expenses
    $4,045,900
    Contributions
    $3,800,323
    Grants paid
    $3,640,239
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,925,423
    Expenses
    $2,963,589
    Contributions
    $2,567,400
    Grants paid
    $2,540,018

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,674,761
    Expenses
    $1,654,428
    Assets (EOY)
    $645,551
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,053,648
    Expenses
    $1,929,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $621,680
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,843,798
    Expenses
    $1,725,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $533,756
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,927,664
    Expenses
    $2,014,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $407,664
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,202,794
    Expenses
    $1,125,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $589,061

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.