Oklahoma · Nonprofit
Oklahoma Blood Institute
Oklahoma Blood Institute (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,089,699 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,623,438). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $93M
What Oklahoma Blood Institute does
Mission
Oklahoma Blood Institute's (obi) mission is to be the donor-to-patient lifeline by providing our communities and medical partners security by meeting blood transfusion and health care needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Service fees for blood products: as the sixth-largest blood center in the u.s, obi collects, tests, processes, and distributes more than 450,000 life-saving blood products annually in 16 blood donation centers across oklahoma, arkansas, and texas. Our complex technological infrastructure and rare medical expertise allow obi to provide safe and adequate blood to patients at more than 230 area hospitals, medical facilities, and air ambulances across all three states. Our rigorous safety measures and the tireless efforts of our medical laboratory staff ensure that the donated blood is safe and available to save lives.
$113,141,077 spent$128,548,433 earned by the program89% of program spendingTesting services: while many blood centers outsource their testing, obi maintains an inhouse testing laboratory to provide a rapid response to processing units. With every donation, our diligent laboratory staff performs multiple tests to ensure blood products are safe and ready to be transfused to local patients. As a fully licensed and certified laboratory, obi maintains the highest standards and leads the nation in applying cutting-edge technology to create the safest blood products possible. Obi's testing laboratory provides a wide scope of safety testing for several blood-born conditions, like hiv, hepatitis c, and west nile virus, to ensure blood products are of the highest quality. If any sample is positive for these issues, our staff will notify the donor and refer them for additional testing and treatment. After the blood sample has been cleared, additional health screening testing is performed. For example, we test the cholesterol level of every donor as part of our standard donation process. In addition to our routine testing of units for our hospital partners, we also work together to assist other blood centers, clinics, and organ donation organizations with needed…
$10,562,469 spent$10,216,229 earned by the program8% of program spendingPatient care revenue: therapeutic apheresis services for patients at area hospitals are provided by specially trained registered nurses under the direction of transfusion medicine physicians. Patients undergo treatments that remove harmful proteins, chemicals or cells in the blood that contribute to a variety of life-threatening diseases or transplant complications. Based on patients' conditions, specific offending agents or components of the blood are isolated and irradiated or removed. After this intricate processing, patients receive their treated blood to restore health.
$3,333,337 spent$6,953,758 earned by the program3% of program spendingThese other program services are blood product derivatives. Derivatives are a product manufactured from a raw material byproduct of blood collection. Obi collects this material, which is unusable for blood transfusion, and distributes this byproduct to plasma manufacturers which, in turn, use it in the production of a biological drug. Revenue for this program is $363,515 with offsetting expenses totaling $302,514. The cell therapy program involves collections of stem cells and cord blood from patients, testing, and manufacturing the products for patient use. Revenue for this program is $473,254 with offsetting expenses totaling $831,738. Obi manages the life-saving blood donations of more than 200,000 people in the region each year. These units of blood are eventually delivered to patients across the region, but not before undergoing an immense amount of fda-regulated processing and testing for donor and blood recipient safety. Volunteer blood donors give what can't be created and provided by any other means. Obi recruits donors and provides skilled medical staff, technology, and facilities to collect blood from donors. Lab professionals under the medical supervision of physicians…
$501,053 spentof which $501,053 as grants$2,062,730 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $127,537,936.
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 $76M to $96M (+26%).
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.
2% of Oklahoma Blood Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Richard Boatsman MD
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $40k → $343k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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: $4.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oklahoma Blood Institute Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Oklahoma Blood Institute raised.
From the IRS filings of Oklahoma Blood Institute’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
Oklahoma Blood Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Oklahoma Blood Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 39% · 2020 35% · 2021 55% · 2022 99% · 2023 70% — 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
20% of Oklahoma Blood Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Oklahoma Blood Institute draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Oklahoma Blood Institute holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Oklahoma Blood Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.4M on record — $26.4M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$24.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of Defense$56k
- Medical & Diagnostic Labs$2k
- Lab,Medical Supplies-Materials$1k
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 Oklahoma Blood Institute
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 Oklahoma
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
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Blood Institute Ventures LLC · disregarded
- Oklahoma Blood Institute Foundation · exempt
- Obi Holding Company · exempt
- Global Blood Fund · exempt
- Alliance for Community Transfusion Srv · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Oklahoma Blood Institute?
- Oklahoma Blood Institute (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,089,699 to it, the largest being OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,623,438). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oklahoma Blood Institute have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $7,089,699 in grants to Oklahoma Blood Institute, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oklahoma Blood Institute?
- OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,623,438 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oklahoma Blood Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 16 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