Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp is a public charity based in Des Moines, Iowa, that operates as MercyOne Des Moines. Its 2024 filing describes it as a member of Trinity Health and says it works with community partners to improve the health of people most in need.
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp at a glance
In short: Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp gave $6.9M across 15 grants in 2025 (avg $460K), mostly in Iowa. 40% of 2025 grantees were new. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $6,903,042
- +147.4% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 15
- +66.7% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $460,203
- +48.4% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $20,870
- Total assets
- $1,415,294,292
- +29.3% vs 2024
- New grantees (estimate)
- 40% first-time grantees (6 of 15, 2025; small sample)
- Primary geography
- Iowa (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated October 2026. New grantees are estimated by matching recipient names across years (methodology).
How to apply to Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp
- How to Apply
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Submit a request through the online Community Partnership/Sponsorship process. The website says requests must be received at least 90 days before an event. Advertising-dollar requests are referred to the marketing and communications office, and use of the MercyOne logo requires advance approval.
- Contact
Mailing address: 1111 6Th Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50314
Phone: (515) 247-3121
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was House of Mercy ($4.2M). Together the top 10 received $6.8M.
Grant Size Distribution
75 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 51 grants of 75 (68%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
The 2025 filing reports that 100% of grant dollars went to Iowa recipients and less than 1% to Missouri recipients. However, its itemized grants include a $25,000 award to UnityPoint Health in Kansas City, Missouri. The listed grants otherwise identify recipients in Iowa.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 15 itemized grants.
Cities
Is Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp open to new grantees?
40%
first-time grantees, 2025
In 2025, 6 of 15 grantees (40%) were first-time recipients. With only 15 grantees, that is a small sample: one grantee more or less moves the share by about 7 points. First grants averaged $13K; repeat grants $758K. How we count
Medians: $13K first-time, $95K repeat.
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2019–2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $2.8M (2024) to $69.0M (2022). In 2025 it made 15 grants totaling $6.9M.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| House of Mercy Des Moines, IA | Community Support | $4,150,665 |
| Primary Health Care Inc Des Moines, IA | Community Support | $2,093,998 |
| Principal Charity Classic Des Moines, IA | Community Support | $250,000 |
| Greater Des Moines Partnership Des Moines, IA | Community Support | $131,250 |
| County of Polk Iowa Des Moines, IA | Community Support | $94,908 |
| Healthy Birth Day Inc Clive, IA | Community Support | $37,500 |
| Unitypoint Health Kansas City, MO | Community Support | $25,000 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines Des Moines, IA | Community Support | $20,870 |
| Catholic Charities of Iowa Des Moines, IA | Community Support | $20,000 |
| Rathbun Lake Area YMCA Centerville, IA | Community Support | $20,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
The 2025 filing reports 15 grants; the 2024 and 2023 filings report 9 and 18 grants, respectively.
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,415,294,292 | $1,048,590,516 | $1,045,795,602 | $6,903,042 | 15 | $-1,102,503 |
| 2024 | $1,094,807,010 | $977,048,225 | $1,001,217,765 | $2,790,572 | 9 | $-1,625,504 |
| 2023 | $695,250,879 | $896,595,007 | $962,072,046 | $17,260,661 | 18 | $4,661,928 |
| 2022 | $935,566,495 | $899,251,353 | $964,931,390 | $69,019,475 | 13 | $19,636,596 |
| 2021 | $1,114,579,485 | $904,841,538 | $863,053,697 | $55,233,037 | 20 | $26,355,395 |
| 2020 | $1,021,035,326 | $817,241,108 | $803,069,789 | $68,489,354 | 23 | $16,031,614 |
| 2019 | $869,298,584 | $804,092,017 | $810,014,550 | $67,617,929 | 27 | $10,090,813 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated October 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
The organization’s stated mission is to serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within communities.
The 2025 filing lists every grant’s purpose as “community support.” The recipients’ stated missions show support reaching varied community organizations. For example, House of Mercy describes its work as a healing presence within communities; Primary Health Care Inc says it provides medical, mental health, dental, and supportive services, including to people experiencing homelessness and other barriers to care. Healthy Birth Day Inc says its Count the Kicks campaign teaches expectant parents about tracking fetal movements. These are the grantees’ descriptions of their own work.
MercyOne’s funding criteria say requests should fit its mission, vision, values, and community benefit objectives and measurably improve community health and quality of life. Its website lists political activities, requests benefiting single individuals, capital campaigns, and requests or events that do not improve the health of the greater community it serves among the types of support it does not approve.
Grantmaking
In filing year 2025, the organization reported 15 grants totaling $6,903,042. Grant amounts ranged from $5,732 to $4,150,665, with a median of $20,870.
The largest reported grants were $4,150,665 to House of Mercy and $2,093,998 to Primary Health Care Inc, both in Des Moines. Other notable grants included $250,000 to Principal Charity Classic, $131,250 to Greater Des Moines Partnership, and $94,908 to the County of Polk, Iowa. All were listed with the purpose “community support.”
MercyOne directs organizations seeking sponsorship or funding to submit requests through its online Community Partnership/Sponsorship process. The website says requests must be received at least 90 days before an event and that evaluation may take up to 90 days. It also says to allow 2–4 weeks for a response; the website gives both response timeframes.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Robert Ritz as a director and CEO of Mercy Health Network. It also lists Hijinio Carreon, DO, as a former key employee and CCO of MercyOne; Atul Chawla, MD, Mark Tannenbaum, MD, Marnix Verhofste, MD, Yuichi Ishida, MD, and Mudassir Malik, MD, as physicians; Michael Fraizer, MD, as a director and cardiologist; and Neil Horning, MD, as director, secretary, and pulmonologist in critical care. Michael Wegner is listed as a former officer.
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp is led by Robert Ritz, Director & CEO Mercy Health Network on every filing since 2019; 9 of 23 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Robert Ritz
Director & CEO Mercy Health Network
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Theresa McConeghey
Director & Chair
Secretary → Director & Vice Chair, 2023
Director & Vice Chair → Director & Chair, 2025
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Neil Horning MD
Director, Secretary & Pulmonologist Critical Care
Pulmonologist Critical Care → Director & Pulmonologist Critical Care, 2022
Director & Pulmonologist Critical Care → Director, Secretary & Pulmonologist Critical Care, 2025
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
$727K (2024) → $619K (2025)
Stephen Nowak DO
Director & Physician Family Medicine
Director & Physician → Director & Physician Family Medicine, 2023
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
$945 (2022) → $62K (2025)
Erin Netteland-Sandvig DO
Director & Physician Family Medicine
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
$517K (2024) → $553K (2025)
Michael Fraizer MD
Director & Cardiologist
On filings since 2023
49 hrs/week
$447K (2023) → $698K (2025)
Brian Johnson
Director & Treasurer
Director → Director & Treasurer, 2025
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Emily Abbas
Director & Vice Chair
Director → Director & Vice Chair, 2025
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Patricia McDermott
Director
On filings since 2019
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Timothy Miller
Director
On filings since 2021
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Maurita Soukup Rsm
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Christopher Nelson PhD
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Vanessa Freitag
Director & Chief Operating Officer
Chief Operating Officer → Director & Chief Operating Officer, 2025
On filings since 2024
47 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Mark Tannenbaum MD
Cardiologist
Director & Physician → Cardiologist, 2023
On filings since 2019
50 hrs/week
$775K (2019) → $896K (2025)
Michael Wegner
Former Officer
Director & President Mercyone Central Ia → Director & President Mercyone Ctrl Ia Thr, 2024
Director & President Mercyone Ctrl Ia Thr → Former Officer, 2025
On filings since 2019
$685K (2019) → $0 (2025)
Hijinio Carreon DO
Former Key Employee, CCO & Mercyone
COO & Mercyone Central Ia → Executive Vice President, CMO & COO Mercyone Ia, 2024
Executive Vice President, CMO & COO Mercyone Ia → Former Key Employee, CCO & Mercyone, 2025
On filings since 2020
$188K (2020) → $0 (2025)
Mudassir Malik MD
Cardiologist
On filings since 2021
50 hrs/week
$780K (2021) → $833K (2025)
Atul Chawla MD
Cardiologist
On filings since 2023
50 hrs/week
$481K (2023) → $923K (2025)
Marnix Verhofste MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
New on the 2025 filing
50 hrs/week
$882K (2025)
Yuichi Ishida MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
New on the 2025 filing
50 hrs/week
$897K (2025)
Jodie Roettger
Former Officer
Vice President Finance & CFO Mercyone Ia → Former Officer, 2025
On filings since 2024
No compensation reported
Terri Donovan Pd By Mgmt Co
Interim Vice President Finance, CFO & Mercyone
Consultant Thr12 & Int Vice President Finance → Interim Vice President Finance, CFO & Mercyone, 2025
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Dennis Szurkus MD
Chief Medical Officer
New on the 2025 filing
50 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (35)
- Former: Aaron From MD (2019–2024) — Cardiologist
- Former: Brenda Cushing (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Glen Hall (2019–2024) — Director & Secretary
- Former: Randall Rubin (2019–2024) — Former Officer, Senior Vice President & CFO Thr
- Former: Terry Lillis (2019–2024) — Director & Treasurer
- Former: David Hockmuth MD (2020–2024) — Cardiothoracic Surgeon
- Former: Monica Friedman (2023–2024) — Director & Chair
- Former: Kurt Andersen (2024) — Director & Int President Mercyone Ia
- Former: Karl Keeler (2019–2023) — Former Officer
- Former: Erin Drinnin (2020–2023) — Director
- Former: Jordan Harrop (2020–2023) — Former Key Employee
- Former: Linda Goodwin (2020–2023) — Former Key Employee
- Former: Chris Nelson (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Bart Jenson MD (2023) — Cardiothoracic Surgeon
- Former: Espnola Cartmill (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Kent Carr (2019–2022) — Svp-Physician Enterprise
- Former: Monica L FRIEDMAN SPHR (2019–2022) — Vice Chair
- Former: Stephen Feltz MD (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Maurita Soukup (2020–2022) — Director
- Former: Matthew Brown (2021–2022) — Director & Sys Svp-Operations Transformation
- Former: Sean Williams (2022) — President Network Hospital
- Former: Julie Younger (2019–2021) — Senior Vice President Iowa Heart
- Former: Daniel Varnum (2021) — Div Senior Vice President Cao-Chief Integration
- Former: Troy Munson (2021) — Neurosurgeon
- Former: John Justice (2019–2020) — Cardiologist
- Former: Joseph Levalley (2019–2020) — Senior Vice President Planning
- Former: Kerty Levy (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Suku Radia (2019–2020) — Chair
- Former: Theodore Rooney (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Rakshak Sarda (2020) — Cardiologist
- Former: David Vellinga (2019) — Former CEO
- Former: John Michael Chua Chiaco (2019) — Cardiologist-Invasive-Intvl
- Former: Joseph Cookman (2019) — Physician-Cardiologist
- Former: Joseph Garcia (2019) — Director
- Former: Sr Dolores Preisinger Rsm (2019) — Director
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $923K, to Atul Chawla MD (Cardiologist). 9 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp
How much does Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp give each year?
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp gave $6.9M across 15 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $2.8M across 9 grants.
What is Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp's typical grant size?
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp's median grant in 2025 was $20,870, and its average grant was $460,203, across 15 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Organizations receiving their first grant from Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp that year got $13K on average.
Where does Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp give grants?
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp gives mostly in Iowa: 100% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The most frequent recipient cities were Des Moines, IA (9 grants).
Does Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 15 grants with a stated purpose on Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support. Recurring purposes include "Community Support" (15 grants).
Who are Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp's largest grantees?
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp's largest 2025 grantees include House of Mercy ($4,150,665), Primary Health Care Inc ($2,093,998) and Principal Charity Classic ($250,000), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 94% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp?
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp reported $1.4B in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $1.0B.
What does Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp fund?
The organization’s stated mission is to serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within communities. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp?
Submit a request through the online Community Partnership/Sponsorship process. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
What is Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp's EIN?
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 42-0680448. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated October 2026.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS May 12, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 13, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS May 9, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS May 13, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 13, 2025)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS July 13, 2020)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 11, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2019–2024
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