Texas · Nonprofit
LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER
LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,802 to it, the largest being Allosource ($217,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $104M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $567k
- Net assets
- $80M
What Lifegift Organ Donation Center does
Mission
The mission of lifegift is to provide community benefit by ethically, effectively and efficiently recovering appropriately transplantable organs and tissue to give the gift of life. Lifegift also provides public and professional education to increase awareness of the need for donor organs and tissues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Procurement:as an organ procurement organization (opo), lifegift staff are available 24 hours a day to receive referrals from hospital personnel who identify potential organ and/or tissue donors. The organization is responsible for servicing a federally designated service area, which includes 109 counties in houston, fort worth, lubbock and amarillo and works with approximately 200 hospitals. During 2024, 1,570 organs were recovered from 471 donors for transplant, a rate of recovery that is higher than most other opos in the country. Lifegift works with transplant centers and united network for organ sharing (unos) to facilitate the matching of donor organs to recipients. Lifegift staff follow the policies dictated by the organ procurement transplant network (optn) for the allocation of organs. Additionally, lifegift maintains a communications call center, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The center screens referrals, approaches families for authorization and medical history information and coordinates organ and tissue recovery efforts. Lifegift received more than 38,000 referrals in 2024. Lifegift also recovers tissue and works with seven local and national tissue processors to…
$73,747,659 spentof which $250,000 as grants$101,452,552 earned by the program92% of program spendingProfessional education:lifegift facilitates organ and tissue donation at over 200 hospitals across texas, working with hospital partners to employ data, education, and strategic plans to build successful donation programs and optimize donation at each institution. The hospital's understanding of its role and responsibilities in facilitating donation is vital to ensuring that all potential donors are identified, donor families are supported appropriately, and that the donation process occurs efficiently and effectively, ultimately increasing donation rates. Lifegift's donation systems team serves as liaisons between lifegift and the hospitals, ensuring a consistent presence at the hospitals to drive engagement and accountability for donation outcomes. These responsibilities include building relationships with hospital stakeholders, collecting and sharing key performance metrics, collaborating to employ quality improvement efforts to increase donation, performing medical record review to determine donor potential and consistent education of hospital staff involved in the donation process. Lifegift also works closely with hospital leadership to build a culture that supports donation,…
$5,303,602 spent7% of program spendingPublic education:public education and outreach are vital components of lifegift's mission. In its work to increase organ and tissue donation, lifegift educates the community about donation and encourages texans to join the donate life texas registry to designate themselves an organ and tissue donor. Lifegift seeks to create a culture of donation with a particular emphasis on building trust and relationships with multicultural communities to dispel myths about donation and create strong connections between lifegift and the people it serves. With the support of an active volunteer program, lifegift hosts public events, partners with associations, businesses, and elected officials to develop and implement awareness campaigns, participates in numerous community events and activities to promote donation and the donor registry, and works with the media and within the social media environment to educate the community and encourage texans to join the donor registry. Some highlights from the work of lifegift's communications team includes events centered around national donate life month in april, multicultural awareness month in august, hispanic heritage month in september, two community…
$1,454,651 spent$59,851 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $80,505,912.
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 2018 to 2019, from $61M to $72M (+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.
0% of LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kevin A Myer
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $433k → $12k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER’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
LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 53% · 2019 51% · 2020 75% · 2021 70% · 2022 51% · 2023 63% — 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
40% of LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
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
54% of LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER'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 $258k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $309k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.6M on record — $16.6M federal, $378 state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$16.6M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $378
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 LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER?
- LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,802 to it, the largest being Allosource ($217,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $566,802 in grants to LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER?
- Allosource is the largest funder on record, with $217,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFEGIFT ORGAN DONATION CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 14 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