Minnesota · Nonprofit
NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM
NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,597,385 to it, the largest being THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ($84,490,822). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $741M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $90M
- Net assets
- $289M
What National Marrow Donor Program does
Mission
We save lives through cellular therapy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transplant:at nmdp, we believe each of us holds the key to curing blood cancers and disorders. As a global nonprofit leader in cell therapy, nmdp creates essential connections between researchers and supporters to inspire action and accelerate innovation to find life-saving cures. With the help of blood stem donors and our extensive network of transplant partners, physicians and caregivers, we're expanding access to treatment so that every patient can receive their life-saving cell therapy. Currently there are more than 9 million total potential u.s. Donors on the nmdp registry. Nmdp facilitates all unrelated transplants in the u.s., assisting doctors in searching more than 43 million potential donors worldwide. Nmdp has impacted more than 150,000 lives since 1987.
$442,196,776 spentof which $8,190,603 as grants$657,035,539 earned by the program75% of program spendingResearch: research innovations are critical to expanding treatment to more patients and improving outcomes. Each year, the nmdp foundation is proud to invest in research through:the nmdp amy strelzer manasevit research program: the amy program funds early career investigators focused on advances in the prevention and treatment of post-cell therapy complications (e.g., graft-versus-host -disease and infection).in 2025, nmdp foundation funded the work of 12 amy scholars. Amy scholars have gone on to become leaders in the field, pursuing scientific advances that help nmdp patients live longer, healthier lives. Since 1998, the nmdp foundation has invested nearly $13 million to help launch the careers of 53 young physician-scientists. After receiving their nmdp amy scholar award, 53 young physician-scientists have gone on to win more than $250 million in subsequent government grant funding to pursue the discoveries to help patients live longer, healthier lives after cell therapy. Today, the amy strelzer manasevit research program for the study of post-cell therapy complications is one of the largest and most coveted fellowships in the field of transplantation.nmdp donor for all: this…
$74,340,176 spentof which $321,970 as grants$18,893,305 earned by the program13% of program spendingRecruitment:the nmdp registry is a listing of millions of potential donors and cord blood units. Every search through nmdp provides patients with access to more than 43 million potential adult donors and more than 761,000 cord blood units worldwide. The best match for a patient is typically someone who shares their ethnic background. Improving the ethnic diversity of the nmdp registry improves all patients' odds of finding their best match, regardless of ethnic background.people between the ages of 18 and 35 are most urgently needed. Research has shown that cells from younger donors lead to better long-term survival for patients.in fy25, more than 230,000 potential donors joined the nmdp registry (35% of whom were ethnically diverse) and more than 4,300 umbilical cord units were added to the registry.
$49,882,609 spent8% of program spendingThe nmdp foundation partners with nmdp to advance various initiatives that directly support patients and providers. These programs include:nmdp provides comprehensive education and support services to patients and their families through one-on-one navigation support, video, printed, and digital education resources, counseling, nmdp peer connect program, and the jason carter clinical trials search and support program, which helps patients with life-threatening blood disorders find clinical trials. Nmdp provides financial assistance to eligible patient families. In fy25, we provided $7 million to 3,400 families. Nmdp also partners with providers across our transplant center network and at community-based hematology/oncology practices around the country, to ensure broad access to treatment and support services through the pathways to transplant program. Nmdp foundation raises funds to support these critical services.
$26,476,812 spent$192,901 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $592,896,373.
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 2024 to 2025, from $403M to $475M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 of the last 9 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
Amy Ronneberg
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Judy Gasson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $8.3M → $9.1M.
12 of 44 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $32M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nmdp Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 MARROW DONOR PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 98% · 2019 87% · 2020 91% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 95% — 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
67% of NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $350.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$205.1M
- Department of Defense$130.5M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$15.3M
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 NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Nmdp Collection Services LLC · disregarded
- Nmdp Foundation · exempt
- Nmdp Mexico · exempt
- Clear Insurance Ltd · corp_trust
- Nmdp Auxiliary Services LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM?
- NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,597,385 to it, the largest being THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ($84,490,822). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $89,597,385 in grants to NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM?
- THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,490,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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