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Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
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 2024.

Health$8.6MReligion$168kEducation$56kRecreation & Sports$16kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$891M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HONORHEALTH: $8k → 11%SIERRA SACRAMENTO VALLEY MED SOC: $8k → 12%GULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $8k → 16%PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FDN E WASH: $28k → 12%HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FDN: $8k → 8%AABB: $160k → 8%HonorHealth: $8k → 11%SIERRA SACRAMENTO VALLEY MED SOC: $7k → 12%BLOOD CENTER FDN OF THE INLAND NW: $155k → 12%AABB: $75k → 8%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%NATIONAL BLOOD FDN RESEARCH & EDUC TRUST FD: $75k → 8%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%NAT BLOOD FDN RES & EDUC TRUST: $75k → 8%FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK: $10k → 11%AABB: $75k → 8%AABB: $75k → 8%AABB: $50k → 8%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
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
DC
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.8M · 10 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$8.8M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-2%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +26%
  • AA
    American Association of Blood Banks
    6× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +2%
  • TB
    The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest
    2× · 2022–2024 · $172k · revenue +59% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue -18%
  • PI
    PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -2%
  • PV
    PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -34%
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
4
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Institute for Systems Biology

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…

Science & Tech
6
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
7
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Inova Health System Foundation

Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…

Health
10
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
11
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…

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12
Bloodworks

Saving lives through research, innovation, education and excellence in blood, medical and laboratory services in partnership with our community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Inland Northwest Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foothills Food Bank. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $7,500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH+2 more: $56,490 · EducationAmerican Association of Blood Banks: $509,500 · HealthAmerican …The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest: $171,968 · HealthThe Blood…PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $28,059 · Health+4 more: $68,773 · Health+4 moreFLIGHTS FOR LIFE INC: $192,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $168,405 · OtherNATIONAL BLOOD FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TRUST FUND: $150,000 · Other+2 more: $26,000 · Other
Education$7,556,490Health$778,300Other$536,405

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $7,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Association of Blood Banks: $509,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest: $171,968 over 2y, 43% of budgetNATIONAL BLOOD FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TRUST FUND: $150,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $31,103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $28,059 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND OF THE SEDMS: $25,387 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $7,773 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Vitalant funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vitalant. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • American Association of Blood Banks: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–15%
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.

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