Missouri · Public charity
Donate Life Foundation
To improve the quality of life for people affected by organ and tissue donation and transplantation. To transform our community by eliminating the waiting list for organ and tissue transplants.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $681,130
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $91M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Donate Life Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $2.4M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $2.1M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $5.7M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.8M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.5M | 52% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.6M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $1.7M | 23% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $815k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington University | $4,883,862 | 8 | 0% |
| Mid-America Transplant Services | $4,145,979 | 1 | 5% |
| St Louis University | $1,904,909 | 7 | 0% |
| Lost & Found | $777,968 | 8 | 17% |
| The St Louis Bereavement Center for Young People | $750,750 | 8 | 16% |
| Family Hospice of Belleville Area | $676,318 | 7 | 4% |
| Casa de Salud | $601,504 | 8 | 7% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri Special Tr | $399,612 | 3 | n/a |
| Infant Loss Resources | $349,293 | 8 | 36% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $328,615 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 45 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Donate Life Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare · Centene Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · The Four Leaf Clover Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation · Regional Business Council · Jefferson Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Donate Life Foundation
- How much does Donate Life Foundation give?
- Donate Life Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $2,390,702, out of $3,244,587 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Donate Life Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (79%), Human Services (10%), Science & Tech (7%).
- Who are Donate Life Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington University ($4.9M), Mid-America Transplant Services ($4.1M), St Louis University ($1.9M).
- Does Donate Life Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donate Life Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, Youthbridge Community Foundation.
- Where is Donate Life Foundation based?
- Donate Life Foundation is based in MO.
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