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LIFEBANC

LIFEBANC (Ohio) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,650 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,124,534). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$39M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$48M
10/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Lifebanc does

Mission

Mission: Lifebanc saves and heals lives.vision: pursuing a future where organ, eye and tissue donation is embraced as an honor and a personal responsibility.values: service, teamwork, integrity, commitment, innovation, quality.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Since 1986, Lifebanc has been the northeast ohio nonprofit organization working to save and heal lives through organ and tissue donation. Lifebanc began as one of the original organ procurement organizations in the united states and is a leader in the field and a highly respected organization regionally and nationally. Lifebanc serves northeast ohio's population of over four million people and works with 80 hospitals in a 20-county area. Volunteers and staff work to educate the public about organ and tissue donation, encourage individuals to designate their donation decision and offer grief support services to families touched by donation. Lifebanc is governed by a volunteer board of directors; comprised of community members, clinicians, recipients and donor family members, who drive(continued on schedule o)organizational strategy with the vision of a future where organ, eye and tissue donation is embraced as an honor and a personal responsibility. In 2023, a record number of northeast ohioans gave the gift of life through organ donation (231) and additionally, 805 gave the gifts of tissue and 612 gave the gift of eye donation. This generosity resulted in 656 organs donated that…

    $70,436,014 spent$77,723,859 earned by the program
    99% of program spending
  2. Annually, Lifebanc volunteers and staff educate more than 100,000 students and adults in an effort to provide accurate information, engage the public and increase the number of registered organ, eye and tissue donors. Lifebanc also provides bereavement support and services to families touched by donation.

    $406,684 spent
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,842,698.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($35M) Expenses 100 ($33M) Net assets 100 ($25M)2018 Revenue 112 ($39M) Expenses 111 ($37M) Net assets 102 ($25M)2019 Revenue 125 ($43M) Expenses 122 ($40M) Net assets 120 ($30M)2020 Revenue 148 ($51M) Expenses 142 ($47M) Net assets 142 ($35M)2021 Revenue 161 ($56M) Expenses 155 ($51M) Net assets 168 ($42M)2022 Revenue 180 ($62M) Expenses 183 ($61M) Net assets 160 ($40M)2023 Revenue 230 ($79M) Expenses 232 ($77M) Net assets 182 ($45M)2024 Revenue 114 ($39M) Expenses 119 ($39M) Net assets 192 ($48M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (119)Net assets (192)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $52M to $61M (+17%).

$36M
$37M
$40M
$45M
$52M
$52M
$61M
$56M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’17
$2.0M
’18
$2.8M
’19
$4.2M
’20
$4.3M
’21
$1.8M
’22
$2.6M
’23
−$142k
’24
2.0
months of
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

Gordon Bowen

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2827252626262625
Joined·+2+9+5+4+6+7+4
No longer listed·31144675
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $28k → $628k.

10 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 LIFEBANC’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

LIFEBANC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 LIFEBANC.

73%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 54% · 2019 42% · 2020 84% · 2021 28% · 2022 79% · 2023 93% — 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.

How long its funders stay

21% of LIFEBANC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

94% of LIFEBANC'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 $97k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 8 states.

IL
NY
OH
CT
MO
NC
SC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LIFEBANC

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFEBANC: 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 LIFEBANC?
LIFEBANC (Ohio) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,650 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,124,534). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LIFEBANC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,548,650 in grants to LIFEBANC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFEBANC?
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,124,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFEBANC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing