Utah · Nonprofit
DONORCONNECT
DONORCONNECT (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,847 to it, the largest being DIALYSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION % CHUCK PALMER CPA ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Donorconnect does
Mission
Background Donorconnect, headquartered in the salt lake city area, is a federally designated, nonprofit organ procurement organization (opo) that serves utah, southeastern idaho, western wyoming, and elko, nevada. Its service area extends to 3.8 million residents, 94 hospitals, and three transplant centers. Mission with an overarching mission to save and heal lives, honor donors, and educate and inspire, Donorconnect plays an essential role in the community, serving as a bridge between organ donors and transplant recipients. Delivery to accomplish its mission, Donorconnect works with donor families, hospitals, and transplant programs to facilitate a successful donation and transplant matching process. This is accomplished through 1) professional education to develop hospital donation policies and procedures, and inform healthcare professionals about the donation process; 2) compassionate care and grief support to donor families before, during, and after donation; 3) clinical support to
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Donorconnect, during the fiscal year, stopped paying for air travel and the oac for imported non-renal organs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Organ transplants Donorconnect screened a total of 1800 potential donors and was able to recover organs from 300 donors. This resulted in transplantation of 474 kidneys, 308 livers, 125 hearts, 9 pancreas, 71 lungs, and 34 organs for research. Tissue recovery Donorconnect was able to retrieve tissue from 450 donors. This resulted in the recovery of 334 bone, 361 skin, 166 heart valves, 235 vein, and 140 aorta, and 89 other tissues for transplant. Grief support Donorconnect provided compassionate care and grief support to all donor families throughout the entire donation process. This includes a comprehensive 2-year bereavement program with follow up support, bereavement education materials, quarterly communication through an in- house newsletter that reaches more than 3600 households, and donor recognition at the annual celebrate life monument event.
$56,311,799 spent$61,430,096 earned by the program98% of program spendingProfessional education the professional education team visited and/or contacted hospitals in the Donorconnect service area 2918 times, and made more than 225 presentations to doctors, nurses, and other clinical staff. Efforts within the five largest hospitals included the formulation of donor councils to address the various needs associated with the donation process, coordination and review of cms requirements that extend to all hospitals with more than 150 beds. Had 51 different meetings during 2024-25 with these donor councils. Members of this team also frequently interfaced with coroners, law enforcement personnel, and medical examiners in utah, idaho, nevada, and wyoming to provide education, support, and encouragement to facilitate the protocols of organ donation. Public education the public education/public relations team visited 404 junior and senior high schools during 2024-25, making more than 1,500 presentations to a total audience of 38,683 students in utah, idaho, and wyoming. This program is one of the most successful student education programs in the united states. During april, Donorconnect also actively worked with public relations students at five universities to…
$619,551 spent1% of program spendingDonorconnect registry yesutah and yesidaho are secure on-line donor databases established and maintained by Donorconnect. The respective registries provide legal documentation of an individual's wishes concerning organ donation if they should pass away. Because driver license division (dld) offices play such an integral role in promoting donor registration, Donorconnect staff made 92 visits to dld locations throughout utah and idaho during 2024-25. During these visits, meetings with dld staff are conducted, educational materials are distributed, and presentations are made on the donation process. Additionally, Donorconnect meets on a regular basis with state officials of the driver license divisions in both utah and idaho. The national average for donor registration through a registry is 59.3%, and the national average for first-time driver license applicants saying "yes" to donation is 49%. The utah and idaho registries realized 1,350 registrants in 2024-25. Compared to 2020 census data, in utah 64% of individuals aged 16 and above registered as donors and 50% of applicants said "yes" at the time of getting their driver license. In idaho 68% of individuals aged 16 and above…
$392,662 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,324,012.
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 2020 to 2021, from $19M to $24M (+30%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of DONORCONNECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Lisa Vitkus
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $2k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DONORCONNECT’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
DONORCONNECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 DONORCONNECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 52% · 2023 84% — diversifying over time.
“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
99% of DONORCONNECT's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
DONORCONNECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DONORCONNECT
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DONORCONNECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DONORCONNECT?
- DONORCONNECT (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,847 to it, the largest being DIALYSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION % CHUCK PALMER CPA ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DONORCONNECT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $37,847 in grants to DONORCONNECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DONORCONNECT?
- DIALYSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION % CHUCK PALMER CPA is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DONORCONNECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Donorconnect →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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