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Foundation for America's Blood Centers

To support various programs of america's blood centers through grants, including public education inititatives on the need for volunteer blood donation, studies of the adequacy of and potential threats to the united states blood supply, and research on community health needs related to blood services.

$35k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2018
100%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 100% of the organizations Foundation for America's Blood Centers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$35k100%
FY20184$80k100%
FY20171$153kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$268k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
America's Blood Centers$153,00015%
LifeStream Blood Bank$20,0001n/a
New York Blood Center Inc$20,00010%
Versiti Wisconsin Inc$20,0001n/a
Community Blood Center Inc$20,00010%
Vitalant$20,00010%
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center$15,00010%

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.

The Scripps Research InstituteCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Scripps Research Institute · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Foundation for America's Blood Centers

How much does Foundation for America's Blood Centers give?
Foundation for America's Blood Centers reported 2 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Foundation for America's Blood Centers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Foundation for America's Blood Centers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: America's Blood Centers ($153k), LifeStream Blood Bank ($20k), New York Blood Center Inc ($20k).
Does Foundation for America's Blood Centers fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for America's Blood Centers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Scripps Research Institute, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Foundation for America's Blood Centers based?
Foundation for America's Blood Centers is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $23k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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