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· Public charity

The Alliance for Community Transfusion Services LLC

To support its members and the independent, community blood banking model through shared resources, initiatves, and expertise.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$678k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$4.8M
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $606k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
$103,192
Median grant
9
States reached
$713k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARTER BLOODCARE$677,785
OKLAHOMA BLOOD INSTITUTE DBA OUR BLOOD INSTITUTE$562,178
LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER$355,472
SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER$282,313
COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKS$184,631
WE ARE BLOOD$120,083
BLOODWORKS NORTHWEST$103,192
SUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS$80,176
COASTAL BEND BLOOD CENTER$66,011
BLOOD ASSURANCE INC$51,596
MEDIC REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER$30,958
HOUCHIN COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK$30,958
THE COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER INC$30,958
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTRA PENNSYLVANIA BLOOD BANK: $72k → 12%HOUCHIN COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK: $31k → 18%WE ARE BLOOD: $120k → 10%CARTER BLOODCARE: $678k → 11%SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER: $282k → 16%COASTAL BEND BLOOD CENTER: $66k → 17%OKLAHOMA BLOOD INSTITUTE DBA OUR BLOOD INSTITUTE: $562k → 16%SUNCOAST BLOOD BANK: $64k → 9%SUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS: $80k → 10%COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $185k → 15%THE COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER INC: $31k → 7%MEDIC REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $31k → 12%BLOOD ASSURANCE INC: $52k → 12%SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER: $53k → 18%BLOODWORKS NORTHWEST: $103k → 9%LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER: $355k → 22%CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA BLOOD BANK: $9k → 12%HOUCHIN COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK: $172 → 18%WE ARE BLOOD: $95k → 10%CARTER BLOODCARE: $539k → 11%SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER: $224k → 16%COSTAL BEND BLOOD CENTER: $52k → 17%OKLAHOMA BLOOD INSTITUTE: $447k → 16%SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS: $8k → 10%COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $147k → 15%THE COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER INC: $25k → 7%SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER: $7k → 18%LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER: $283k → 22%WE ARE BLOOD: $12k → 10%CARTER BLOODCARE: $69k → 11%SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER: $29k → 16%COSTAL BEND BLOOD CENTER: $7k → 17%OKLAHOMA BLOOD INSTITUTE: $57k → 16%COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $19k → 15%THE COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER INC: $3k → 7%LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER: $36k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
PA
CA
MO
TN
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 12 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$4.6M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CB
    Carter BloodCare
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +35%
  • OB
    Oklahoma Blood Institute
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +44%
  • LB
    LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER
    3× · 2019–2024 · $674k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • B
    BLOODWORKS
    one grant, 2024 · $103k · revenue +5%
  • BA
    BLOOD ASSURANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $52k · revenue 0%
  • MI
    MEDIC INC
    one grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue +13%
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
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…

Health
2
Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center Inc

To act as a regional blood bank

Health
3
Central Jersey Blood Center Inc

See schedule o for complete mission statement.cjbc was founded with a vision to save lives by providing safe, high quality blood products and services to patients in need. entrusted to collect, process and distribute this priceless life…

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4
Northwest Oklahoma Blood Institute
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5
Blood Bank of Alaska Inc

The blood bank provides blood products and testing services to hospitals to ensure an adequate and safe supply of blood in routine and emergency situations. it provides educational services to potential donors and recipients of blood…

Health
6
The Blood Center

The blood center is a non-profit, community service organization guided by a volunteer, independent 18-member board of directors, comprised of community leaders and hospital representatives. the staff is composed of over 200 professionals,…

Health
7
Central California Blood Center

Central california blood center is committed to saving lives and improving patient care by providing a safe and abundant blood supply for the patients and families in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Community Blood Center

The mission of CBC/CTS is to provide donors the opportunity to save and enhance lives through trusted community-based resources for transfusion and transplantation. CBC/CTS is dedicated to protecting the donation of blood and tissue from…

Health
9
Dak-Minn Blood Bank

To provide and maintain a safe and adequate blood supply for altru health system and local health care facilities so that patients have available appropriate blood components.

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10
Lifesouth Community Blood Centers Inc

To provide a safe blood supply that meets or exceeds the needs of each community we serve, and to provide a variety of services in support of ongoing and emerging blood and transfusion-related activities.

Health
11
Northern California Community Blood Bank

Collecting, processing, testing & distribution of blood & blood products and related medical services.

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12
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blood Assurance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oklahoma Blood Institute. 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

15 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Carter BloodCare: $1,285,280 · HealthCarter BloodCareOklahoma Blood Institute: $1,066,055 · HealthOklahoma Blood InstituteSOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER: $535,349 · HealthSOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTERCOMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $350,116 · HealthCOMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKSWE ARE BLOOD: $227,712 · HealthWE ARE BLOODSUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK INC DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS: $152,038 · Health+7 more: $481,996 · Health+7 moreLIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER: $674,080 · OtherLIFESHARE BLOOD C…WALTER L SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER INC: $59,958 · OtherWALTER L SHEPEARD…
Health$4,098,546Other$734,038

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCarter BloodCare: $1,285,280 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOklahoma Blood Institute: $1,066,055 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER: $674,080 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER: $535,349 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $350,116 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWE ARE BLOOD: $227,712 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK INC DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS: $152,038 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOASTAL BEND BLOOD CENTER: $125,177 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBLOODWORKS: $103,192 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA BLOOD BANK: $81,239 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWALTER L SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER INC: $59,958 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER INC: $58,704 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD ASSURANCE INC: $51,596 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUCHIN COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK: $31,130 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIC INC: $30,958 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Scripps Research …The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Scripps Research InstituteCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Scripps Research Institute · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alliance for Community Transfusion Services LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alliance for Community Transfusion Services LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Oklahoma Blood Institute: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 15 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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