California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK
SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,850,217 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ($4,091,417). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $21M
What San Diego Blood Bank does
Mission
The San Diego Blood Bank (sdbb) is a california not-for-profit public benefit corporation established in 1950. The San Diego Blood Bank collects, processes, stores and distributes blood components that meets or exceeds the needs of each community we serve and provide a variety of services in support of ongoing and emerging blood and transfusion-related activities and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The blood bank collects, stores, and distributes blood products. In addition, the blood bank provides the southern california region's hospitals with a wide range of blood banking services. These include blood collection, component preparation, plateletpheresis, plasmapheresis, leukapheresis, washed blood, frozen blood, autologous storage, designated donation services and a reference laboratory. The cell therapy program of the blood bank operates the cord blood program, providing lifesaving stem cell transplants to patientsworldwide. The blood bank acquires blood principally by donation and, to some extent, by purchase from other blood centers. The blood bank also collaborates with other healthcare providers to improve community wellness and with researchers for future medical advances.over 400 units of whole blood must be collected daily from volunteer blood donors to sufficiently meet the needs of hospitals and patients served by the San Diego Blood Bank. We continually make the public aware of our on-going need for blood. Each year more than 100,000 donors receive free basic health screenings prior to donating blood. The hospitals we serve also benefit from free technology…
$39,641,782 spent$48,956,173 earned by the program95% of program spendingResearch and cord blood activities - the San Diego Blood Bank offers a variety of blood and cell-based research products and services for researchers in academia and biopharmaceutical companies. Blood bank products include whole blood, white blood cells, platelets, plasma and serum components for research use. Additionally, the San Diego Blood Bank's cell therapy and cord blood bank unit offers cord blood, cord blood cell fractions, cord blood plasma and related components to researchers. We are a cgmp compliant facility and have a variety of assay and analytical services on blood and cell therapy products as well as blood and tissue samples available for genomics-based analyses. All products offered for research are obtained under full consent for research use from our donors and collected under cgmp compliance guidelines. These activities include gaining public cord blood bank accreditation from the american association of blood banking (aabb). This gives the sdbb cord blood bank full accreditation for all aspects of cord blood banking, including collection, processing, storage and distribution of cord blood. These cord blood units are being listed with the national marrow donor…
$1,697,846 spent$1,430,577 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe all of us research program under direction of the national institutes of health is part of an effort to advance individualized health care by enrolling one million or more participants to contribute their health data over many years. The program aims to reflect the diversity of the united states and to include participants from groups that have been underrepresented in health research in the past. Working together, all of us researchers, partners, and participants aim to build a better future for health care. The goal of all of us is to speed up health research discoveries, enabling new kinds of individualized health care. To make this possible, the program is building one of the world's largest and most diverse databases for health research. San Diego Blood Bank is a major research partner in the all of us program, collecting blood samples and other health data from a diverse demographic population, building a data platform that many researchers can use.
$254,504 spent$400,558 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,594,132.
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.
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 $33M to $36M (+9%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Douglas Morton
CEO
Board chair
Robert Finzi
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $84k → $1.2M.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 51% · 2019 33% · 2020 46% · 2021 76% · 2022 59% · 2023 61% — 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
24% of SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
99% of SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.2M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$7.4M
- Department of Defense$3.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$537k
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 SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: 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 SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK?
- SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,850,217 to it, the largest being THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ($4,091,417). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $6,850,217 in grants to SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK?
- THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $4,091,417 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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