Missouri · Nonprofit
MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES
MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,203,278 to it, the largest being DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION ($4,145,979). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $108M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $111M
What Mid-America Transplant Services does
Mission
To save lives through excellence in organ and tissue donation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mid-america transplant is inspired by the generosity of donors and the courage of transplant patients and strives to make more lifesaving transplants a reality for over 100,000 individuals awaiting transplantation throughout the country. Referrals are assessed by mid-america transplant at our partner hospitals for potential organ and tissue donation. In 2024, through these referrals, 317 generous organ donors allowed mid-america transplant to coordinate 891 lifesaving organ transplants. In addition to organ donation, tissue donation is a core component of the organization's mission to save lives. Mid-america transplant coordinates the recovery of tissue, which helps people in need of corneal transplants to restore sight, as well as skin and bone donations to repair injuries. In 2024, 2,632 tissue donors provided healing for thousands of people through generous gifts of skin, bone, vein, heart valve, and cornea donations. Additionally, onsite laboratory services allow mid-america transplant to conduct infectious disease testing more efficiently and maximize the placement of safe organs and tissues. The mid-america transplant building houses a critical care unit where donor…
$88,089,370 spentof which $121,645 as grants$106,533,741 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $88,089,370.
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 $100M to $111M (+11%).
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 MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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 Lee
President/CEO
Board chair
Joan Magruder
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $366k → $140.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT 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
MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
100% 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 MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
58% of MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES has grown faster 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 MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$22k
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 MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Life Logistics LLC · disregarded
- Highlands Plaza Three LLC · disregarded
- Donate Life Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT 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 MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES?
- MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,203,278 to it, the largest being DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION ($4,145,979). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $7,203,278 in grants to MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES?
- DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,145,979 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-AMERICA TRANSPLANT SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 10 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