Minnesota · Nonprofit
NMDP FOUNDATION
NMDP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 303 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,073,385 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,517,700). 130 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 303
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Nmdp Foundation does
Mission
Raises funds to support the national marrow donor program (nmdp) mission: we save lives through cell therapy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Patient assistance:the Nmdp Foundation provides financial assistance to patients throughout each stage of the transplant process. Funded by philanthropy, in fy25, more than $7 million was provided to over 3,000 patients from 148 transplant centers. In fy25, the proportion of grant recipients who identified as non-hispanic white ranged from 0%-67% depending on the grant type. For the sickle cell fertility preservation grant, which helps pay for fertility preservation and storage pre-transplant for sickle cell disease, all recipients identified as either black / african american or hispanic. For the john and caryn camiolog survivorship grant, 67% of recipients identified as non-hispanic white.the sickle cell fertility preservation grant helps pay for fertility preservation and storage fees for patients with sickle cell disease preparing for transplant. This grant is paid to the fertility preservation clinic or patient when insurance does not cover this cost. In fy25, this grant was distributed to 27 patients with an average award amount of $6,695. Nmdp also provides funding to help with the many uncovered out-of-pocket expenses for patients before and after transplant. The tsa grant…
$7,020,503 spentof which $7,020,503 as grants42% 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.
$555,805 spentof which $555,805 as grants3% 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, we 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 series of…
$1,503,037 spentof which $1,503,037 as grants9% of program spendingOther program:the 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 Foundation raises funds to support these critical services.nmdp allocates compensation and benefits and occupancy costs to programs based on employee responsibilities.
$7,780,265 spentof which $1,777,354 as grants46% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,859,610.
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 2021 to 2022, from $21M to $16M (−27%).
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.
102% of NMDP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Melissa Kong
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 99 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $2.9M.
43 of 303 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $42M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Marrow Donor Program). These are real filings, and they are not money NMDP FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NMDP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 303 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
NMDP FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
64% 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 NMDP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 19% · 2019 34% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% — 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
32% of NMDP FOUNDATION'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
NMDP FOUNDATION draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 35 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 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
NMDP FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 50 funders to 99 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NMDP FOUNDATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- National Marrow Donor Program · exempt
- Nmdp Mexico · exempt
- Nmdp Auxiliary Services LLC · corp_trust
- Clear Insurance Ltd · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NMDP FOUNDATION: 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 NMDP FOUNDATION?
- NMDP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 303 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,073,385 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,517,700). 130 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NMDP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 303 organizations giving $25,073,385 in grants to NMDP FOUNDATION, 130 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NMDP FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,517,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NMDP FOUNDATION 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 303 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