Alaska · Nonprofit
LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES
LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,759 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($135,287). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $962k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $186k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Life Alaska Donor Services does
Mission
Transforming lives supporting families and serving our community through the gift of organ and tissue donation. Life Alaska provides donor recovery services and tissue for transplantation to Alaskans as well as others in need. Life Alaska recovers human tissues for transplant and provides transplant recipients with an increased life expectancy and quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Donation Services Program recovers and acquires human tissue for transplant. These tissues provide transplant recipients with an increased life expectancy and quality of life. This department assumes primary responsibility for facilitating the actual donation process. LADS coordination staff is available twenty-four hours a day to receive referrals from among our many referral sources. The recovery and acquisition teams are responsible for the safe and aseptic recovery or acquisition of the authorized tissues packaging and shipment of the tissues to the appropriate processing centers. Life Alaska has a living donor program where birth tissue can be donated to help heal wounds or for other surgical application. The Tissue Distribution Program provides allograft tissues to hospitals and surgery centers throughout Alaska. These distributed tissues are utilized by surgeons to enhance the tissue recipients quality of life. A portion of these tissues come from Alaskan donor tissues recovered by our Donation Services Program.
$804,328 spent82% of program spendingThe Public and Professional Education Program provides education on organ eye and tissue donation and the Alaska Donor Registry. Life Alaska works collaboratively with all hospitals in the State of Alaska providing education and resources to offer the opportunity of donation to patients as well as education to staff in hospitals regarding patient referrals and donor facilitation. Professional education includes providing information to other organizations throughout Alaska such as EMS Fire Police Alaska State Troopers hospice and the State of Alaska Medical Examiners Office. Life Alaska presents to school students ranging from middle school through college. Public Education is critical to raising awareness dispelling myths about donation and encouraging Alaskans to say yes to donation and the gift of life. The Alaska Donor Registry www.alaskadonorregistry. org has grown to over 600,000 in 21 years. Due to the success of the Alaska Donor Registry and Life Alaskas commitment to honor the wishes of donors Alaska has one of the highest per capita donation rates in the nation.
$119,378 spent12% of program spendingThe Family Services Program provides extensive bereavement support resources and information to Alaskans who have experienced the loss of a loved one. This includes correspondence phone calls and support depending upon the specific needs of the donor family. Life Alaska offers all donor families a Gift of Life donor medal in honor an memory of their loved one. Each year Life Alaska has hosted a Donation Celebration where donor families are invited to come together and honor their loved one.
$51,697 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $975,403.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.0M to $2.4M (−20%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Dr Gary Zientek
Chairman and Medical Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $60k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES’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
LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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
73% of LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES's revenue fell 45% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES
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In Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES?
- LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,759 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($135,287). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $185,759 in grants to LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $135,287 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE ALASKA DONOR SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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