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NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC

NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,753,805 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,914,430). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
52
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
$26k
15/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What National Foundation for Transplants Inc does

Mission

To provide healthcare support services, financial assistance in the form of grants and fundraising and avocacy programs to and for the benefit of transplant candidates, recipents and their families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. National foundation for transplants (nft) helps patients receive lifesaving treatments, medications and long-term care that they otherwise could not afford. Nft assisted more than 1400 patients with financial support, mobilezed 150 new community fundraising campaigns, and consuled and shared resources materials with morethan 1500 organ and tissue transplant patients and their families. Nft provided advocacy, fundraising expertise, support services and grants to organ and tissue transplant patients in all 50 states.

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2018 Revenue 110 ($4.0M) Expenses 92 ($3.5M) Net assets 102 ($3.6M)2019 Revenue 93 ($3.4M) Expenses 103 ($4.0M) Net assets 87 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 78 ($2.8M) Expenses 89 ($3.4M) Net assets 66 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 73 ($2.7M) Expenses 68 ($2.6M) Net assets 66 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 68 ($2.5M) Expenses 73 ($2.8M) Net assets 55 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 40 ($1.5M) Expenses 58 ($2.2M) Net assets 33 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 28 ($1.0M) Expenses 56 ($2.2M) Net assets 1 ($26k)
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Revenue (28)Expenses (56)Net assets (1)

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 $1.2M to $26k (−98%).

$3.6M
$3.7M
$3.1M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.0M
$1.2M
$26k
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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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$211k
’17
$474k
’18
−$581k
’19
−$597k
’20
$47k
’21
−$322k
’22
−$778k
’23
−$1.2M
’24
0.1
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

Jared Wall

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Marcus Martinez

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed91013121314118
Joined·+3+4+1+2+1+2+0
No longer listed·2121053
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $92k → $682k.

16 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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

NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC.

70%
largest funder
76%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 29% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 57% · 2022 84% · 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 21 states in all.

NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
DE
TN
NC
OK
AL
TX
FL

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

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’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $582k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 15%Fundraising 14%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 41 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC?
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,753,805 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,914,430). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $2,753,805 in grants to NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC?
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,914,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TRANSPLANTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 52 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