· Public charity
Vitalant
Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIV OF PITTSBURGH-DEPT OF MEDICINE | $1,500,000 |
| AABB | $75,000 |
| UNM FOUNDATION | $41,790 |
| FLIGHTS FOR LIFE | $25,000 |
| BLOOD CENTER FDN OF THE INLAND NW | $16,809 |
| FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SIERRA SACRAMENTO VALLEY MED SOC | $9,422 |
| HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FDN | $8,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2020–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +26%- AAAmerican Association of Blood Banks6× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +2%
- TBThe Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest2× · 2022–2024 · $172k · revenue +59% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue -18%- PIPROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -2%
- PVPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…
The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center and the most unlike its peers is Paralyzed Veterans of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds American Association of Blood Banks ↗
- Who funds The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLOOD FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND OF THE SEDMS ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vitalant funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- American Association of Blood Banks — 9% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.