Arizona · Public charity
Vitalant
Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $891M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Vitalant funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 8 | $1.7M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.9M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.6M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.7M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $103k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $190k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $7,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Association of Blood Banks | $509,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Flights for Life Inc | $192,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest | $171,968 | 2 | 43% |
| University of New Mexico | $168,405 | 4 | n/a |
| National Blood Foundation Research and Education Trust Fund | $150,000 | 2 | 16% |
| University of New Mexico Foundation Inc | $31,103 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence Inland Northwest Foundation | $28,059 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Service Education & Research Fund of the Sedms | $25,387 | 3 | 1% |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $7,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Association of Blood Banks | $509,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Flights for Life Inc | $192,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest | $171,968 | 2 | 43% |
| University of New Mexico | $168,405 | 4 | n/a |
| National Blood Foundation Research and Education Trust Fund | $150,000 | 2 | 16% |
| University of New Mexico Foundation Inc | $31,103 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence Inland Northwest Foundation | $28,059 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Service Education & Research Fund of the Sedms | $25,387 | 3 | 1% |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Honorhealth Foundation | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Foothills Food Bank | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center | $7,773 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Vitalant supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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.
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How this is measured
About Vitalant
- How much does Vitalant give?
- Vitalant reported 8 grants totaling $1,686,021 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Vitalant fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (97%), Religion (2%), Education (1%).
- Who are Vitalant's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Pittsburgh ($7.5M), American Association of Blood Banks ($510k), Flights for Life Inc ($192k).
- Does Vitalant fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vitalant?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Vitalant based?
- Vitalant is based in AZ.
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