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Lifelink Foundation Inc

To honor donors and save lives through organ and tissue donation.

$241k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$193k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.8MCommunity Improvement$80kEducation$26k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $202,719, the rows itemized in this filing. The $240,532 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,813 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $193k
$192,719
Median grant
1
States reached
$321M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFELINK LEGACY FUND$192,719
TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION: $281k → 22%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $10k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%LIFEGIFT: $10k → 16%BIOFLORIDA INC: $7k → 11%ORLANDO HEALTH: $5k → 13%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 13%GEORGIA TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%ASSOCIATION OF ORGAN PROCUREMENT: $14k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS IN TRANSPLANTATION: $20k → 7%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $40k → 22%BIOFLORIDA: $6k → 11%ORLANDO HEALTH INC: $5k → 13%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $10k → 13%ASSOCIATION OF ORGAN PROCUREMENT: $14k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF MULTICUTURAL AFFAIRS IN TRANSPLANTATION - AMAT: $8k → 7%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $20k → 22%BIOFLORIDA INC: $5k → 11%OURLEGACY FKA TRANSLIFE TISSUE BANK: $73k → 13%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%ASSOCIATION OF ORGAN PROCUREMENT: $7k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF MULTICUTURAL AFFAIRS IN TRANSPLANTATION - AMAT: $8k → 7%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $20k → 22%TRANSLIFE TISSUE BANK: $73k → 13%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TISSUE BANKS: $5k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF MULTICUTURAL AFFAIRS IN TRANSPLANTATION - AMAT: $5k → 7%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $20k → 22%TRANSLIFE TISSUE BANK: $73k → 13%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $10k → 13%ASSOCIATION OF ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS - AOPO: $5k → 6%ASSOCIATION OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS IN TRANSPLANTATION: $5k → 7%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $15k → 22%OURLEGACY FKA TRANSLIFE TISSUE BANK: $49k → 13%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 13%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $8k → 22%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $6k → 22%TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $193k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $144k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $117k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $108k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $97k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $96k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $71k → 13%LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $66k → 13%LIONS EYE INSTITUTE: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 11 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$1.6M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+33%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LL
    LIFELINK LEGACY FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $891k · revenue +100%
  • DL
    DONATE LIFE AMERICA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $129k · revenue +25%
  • TH
    TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TF
    TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $281k · revenue 0%
  • LO
    LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • DL
    Donate Life Californiagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +185%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lifelink Foundation Inc

To honor donors and save lives through organ and tissue donation. (expanded mission on schedule o)

Health
2
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan

We honor life through donation.

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3
Organ Donation & Transplantation Alliance

Our mission: the alliance unites the organ donation, transplantation and healthcare communities to promote collaboration, cascade innovations and share effective practices for the benefit of restoring lives through transplantation.our…

Education
4
Midwest Transplant Network Inc

Saving lives by honoring the gift of organ and tissue donation with dignity and compassion.

Health
5
The Transplantation Society

The transplantation society provides the focus for global leadership in transplantation for the development of the science and clinical practice, scientific communication, continuing education and guidance on the ethical practice.

Health
6
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc

We provide innovative human biologic solutions that maximize the gift of donation.

Health
7
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network

To save and enhance the lives of as many people as possible through organ and tissue donation.

Health
8
South Texas Blood & Tissue Center

The south texas blood & tissue center supplies blood to more than 100 hospitals throughout texas and supports tissue, research/new therapies, and umbilical cord blood/birth tissue donations.

Health
9
Greater Delaware Valley Society of Transplant Surgeons

Gift of life donor program, the tax-exempt non-profit federally designated organization serving the eastern half of pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and delaware, is responsible for recovering and allocating organs and tissues used in…

Health
10
Hawaii Organ Procurement Organization

The mission of legacy of life hawai'i is to save and enhance lives through recovering organs and tissue for transplant; encourage organ donation through community outreach and education; and honor and support organ donors and their families

Health
11
American Society of Transplantation

Ast is a diverse organization dedicated to advancing the field of transplantation and improving patient care by promoting research, education, advocacy, organ donation, and service to the community through a lens of equity and inclusion.

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12
Onelegacy

Onelegacy saves and heals lives through organ, eye and tissue donation, comforts the families we serve, and inspires our communities to donate life.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifelink Legacy Fund; the most unlike its peers is Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $890,810 · OtherLIFELINK LEGACY FUNDADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM-SUNBELT INC: $267,712 · OtherADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM-SUNBELT INCDONATE LIFE AMERICA: $129,300 · OtherDONATE LIFE AMERICA+3 more: $61,500 · OtherTRANSPLANT FOUNDATION: $281,250 · HealthTRANSPLANT FOUNDATIONAssociation for Multcultural Affairs in Transplantation: $45,000 · HealthAssociation for Multcultur…FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthFLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCES CE…TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOU…LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+5 more: $40,000 · Health+5 moreTAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $80,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,349,322Health$441,250Community Improvement$80,000Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFELINK LEGACY FUND: $890,810 over 8y, 19% of budgetTRANSPLANT FOUNDATION: $281,250 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetDONATE LIFE AMERICA: $129,300 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTAMPA HILLSBOROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation for Multcultural Affairs in Transplantation: $45,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBIOFLORIDA INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrlando Health Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDonate Life California: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Association of Tissue Banks Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Transplant Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lifelink Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lifelink Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bioflorida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Orlando Health Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Health Sciences Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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