Maryland · Nonprofit
American Association of Blood Banks
American Association of Blood Banks (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,190 to it, the largest being Vitalant ($509,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $701k
- Net assets
- $-1774045
What American Association of Blood Banks does
Mission
Improving lives by making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available, and effective worldwide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Accreditation:American Association of Blood Banks develops standards and guidance for voluntary compliance and accreditation processes. These define optimal patient and donor care in transfusion medicine and cellular therapies.
$3,155,202 spent$4,997,045 earned by the program25% of program spendingConferences & meetings:American Association of Blood Banks provides educational programs including conferences and audio conferences to provide continuing professional education to individuals in the field of transfusion medicine and cellular and related biological therapies.
$2,005,346 spent$1,332,819 earned by the program16% of program spendingCommunications and online publications:American Association of Blood Banks (aabb) is the premier publisher for publications in the blood banking, cellular therapies and transfusion medicine field. Our high quality publications and practice standards are relevant for today's healthcare professionals. Aabb advances the acquisition, translation, and application of new knowledge in the disciplines of basic, clinical, behavioral, managerial and laboratory sciences as they apply to transfusion medicine, cellular and related biological therapies through its scholarly journal, "transfusion". In addition, aabb informs its members through daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters, bulletins, magazines and online peer to peer integration through the aabb hub.
$1,533,317 spent$248,688 earned by the program12% of program spendingAabb consulting services is a leader in providing expertise worldwide in quality management and process improvement systems and solutions to blood, plasma and tissue collection and/or management facilities, transfusion services, clinical laboratories, cellular and relatedbiological therapy facilities.
$1,121,435 spent$1,042,116 earned by the program9% of program spendingMembership services help American Association of Blood Banks to provide valuable information on public safety issues, programs for members to interact with peers and education on current and emerging technology for transfusion safety, blood management, cellular therapies and blood quality and testing.
$970,035 spent$3,883,790 earned by the program8% of program spendingNational blood exchange (nbe) continues to provide an important and valuable service to the blood banking and transfusion medicine community. Nbe relies on a nationwide network of blood facilities with a surplus of blood and blood components. This nationwide network hasenabled nbe to become the primary resource sharing program in the us. Each year, nbe coordinates the distribution of more than 181,000 units of blood and blood components.
$389,250 spent$809,650 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther programs
$3,506,144 spent$1,001,640 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,680,729.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $19M to $22M (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 0% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of American Association of Blood Banks’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Debra Benavram
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $209k → $75k.
From the IRS filings of American Association of Blood Banks’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
American Association of Blood Banks leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund American Association of Blood Banks.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 51% · 2019 67% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
American Association of Blood Banks draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
American Association of Blood Banks receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $701k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding American Association of Blood Banks receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.1M on record — $15.1M federal, $13k state.
- Department of Defense$6.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.3M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$3.8M
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$13k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like American Association of Blood Banks
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- AABB Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds American Association of Blood Banks?
- American Association of Blood Banks (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,190 to it, the largest being Vitalant ($509,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Association of Blood Banks have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $701,190 in grants to American Association of Blood Banks, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Association of Blood Banks?
- Vitalant is the largest funder on record, with $509,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Association of Blood Banks find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing