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LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER

LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,767 to it, the largest being THE ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFUSION SERVICES LLC ($674,080). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$48M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$37M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Lifeshare Blood Center does

Mission

The mission of Lifeshare Blood Center is to connect donors and the lives they impact.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Collect, process, and distribute voluntarily donated blood components for use by patients. Perform apheresis, laboratory and scientific support services related to provision of blood components for use by patients. Conduct public education and awareness programs for the purpose of recruiting volunteer blood donors.

    $34,875,214 spentof which $120,650 as grants$47,037,678 earned by the program
    95% of program spending

  2. Lifeshare biologics: home to three state-of-the-art cleanrooms, rated iso 8, 7, and 6, with a biosafety laminar flow hood ratediso 5. Our teams isolate, expand, and freeze human placentalmesenchymal stromal/stem cells (msc), as well as human umbilical cordendothelial cells (huvec) and amnion.

    $549,275 spent
    1% of program spending

  3. Pelican plasma: collect plasma - the most liquid portion of your bloodthat helps transport nutrients, enzymes, waste and other matterthroughout your body.

    $1,361,665 spent$381,023 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $36,786,154.

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 ($41M) Expenses 100 ($41M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 99 ($41M) Expenses 102 ($42M) Net assets 94 ($20M)2019 Revenue 103 ($43M) Expenses 103 ($43M) Net assets 182 ($39M)2020 Revenue 106 ($44M) Expenses 105 ($43M) Net assets 186 ($40M)2021 Revenue 114 ($47M) Expenses 102 ($42M) Net assets 209 ($45M)2022 Revenue 114 ($47M) Expenses 102 ($42M) Net assets 228 ($48M)2023 Revenue 116 ($48M) Expenses 110 ($46M) Net assets 240 ($51M)2024 Revenue 112 ($46M) Expenses 113 ($47M) Net assets 175 ($37M)2025 Revenue 116 ($48M) Expenses 115 ($48M) Net assets 175 ($37M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (115)Net assets (175)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $55M to $42M (−24%).

$24M
$30M
$43M
$49M
$49M
$53M
$55M
$42M
$41M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$114k
’17
−$1.2M
’18
$36k
’19
$509k
’20
$4.9M
’21
$4.9M
’22
$2.3M
’23
−$286k
’24
−$31k
’25
0.5
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.

Board chair

Tom Simms Iii

Trustee, chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed222019202121252630
Joined·+4+6+2+3+4+4+1+5
No longer listed·67124001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $113k.

Funder
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'23
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total
The Onestar Foundationunclassified
$205k
Nmdp Foundationunclassified
$144k
Global Blood Fundunclassified
$7k
funders
2
1
3
6
4
5
7
1
2

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $44k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lifeshare Blood Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER raised.

From the IRS filings of LIFESHARE BLOOD 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

LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

90% 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 LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER.

54%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 40% · 2021 71% · 2022 63% · 2023 29% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 4 states in all.

MN
OK
LA
TX

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

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Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.

Federal$5.7M
grants $0contracts $5.7M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$5.7M

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 LIFESHARE BLOOD 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 Louisiana

The Blood Center84%Lcmc Health Holdings Inc81%Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc78%University Medical Center Management Corporation78%New Orleans Bio Innovation Center Inc78%Louisiana Community Health Center78%Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency78%Foster the Love Louisianainc78%

Nationally

Lifeshare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma Inc88%The Lifeshare Foundation86%Lifesouth Community Blood Centers Inc85%LifeStream Blood Bank85%Hcsc - Blood Center85%The Blood Center84%Lifeserve Blood Center84%West Tennessee Regional Blood Center DBA Lifeline Blood Services84%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

57%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

LA

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Lifeshare Blood Center Foundation · exempt
  • Alliance for Community Transfusion Srv · exempt
  • I T Synergistics · partnership
  • National Blood Testing Cooperative · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER: 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 LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER?
LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,767 to it, the largest being THE ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFUSION SERVICES LLC ($674,080). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,255,767 in grants to LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER?
THE ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFUSION SERVICES LLC is the largest funder on record, with $674,080 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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