California · Nonprofit
SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC
SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,692,063 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($323,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Sepsis Alliance Inc does
Mission
To save lives and reduce suffering by educating the public and leading an alliance of patients, healthcare professionals, and partners committed to preventing and curing sepsis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public awareness and education & supportsepsis alliance continued to expand its reach through sepsis.org, which served over 1.5 million visitors with updated and multilingual resources. The organization launched several targeted campaigns, including the get vaxxed vaccine confidence campaign and an additional campaign which addressed infection prevention for cancer patients. These efforts were supported by grants from glaxosmithkline and astrazeneca. On a national level, sepsis awareness increased to 75%, a 9% increase over 2024 and a new high, according to the annual sepsis alliance awareness survey. Sepsis alliance connect grew to over 8,000 members, offering more than 150 live virtual support sessions and 14 new on-demand educational programs. (continued on sched o)(continued from part iii, 4a) the platform offers affinity groups for young adults, amputee survivors, and those with invisible disabilities after sepsis, and continues to expand its educational and resource offerings. Continued support for this program's educational offerings came from merck.
$721,707 spent$6,393 earned by the program35% of program spendingProfessional education and training sepsis alliance institute (sai) experienced a 20.2% increase in users, reaching over 69,900 learners. It delivered more than 179,000 registered nurse (rn) continuing education credits and added 25 new courses. The organization hosted multiple high-impact events, including the sepsis alliance antimicrobial resistance (amr) conference and the american association of critical-care nurses national teaching institute & critical care exposition (aacn nti) and expo hall activities, and the sepsis alliance symposium: healthcare-associated infections. The sixth annual sepsis alliance summit drew over 2,500 registrants. Peer-to-peer engagement also grew, with a 28% increase in discussion responses (continued on sched o)(continued from part iii, 4b) and an 18.3% increase in resource downloads. In 2025, sepsis alliance also became an accredited provider to the accreditation council for continuing medical education (accme) which allows sai to offer continuing education credits to physicians.
$897,219 spent43% of program spendingPolicy and advocacyin 2025, sepsis alliance expanded its advocacy efforts at both the federal and state levels to improve sepsis awareness, early recognition, and patient outcomes. The organization supported key federal legislation related to sepsis, diagnostics, and antimicrobial resistance, while also advancing the stop sepsis act in new jersey to strengthen hospital sepsis protocols and reporting. Sepsis alliance mobilized grassroots advocates through hill day activities and advocacy actions, while continuing to educate policymakers and stakeholders.
$212,739 spent10% of program spendingResearch and innovationsepsis alliance hosted its inaugural unite for sepsis symposium in chicago in september. The event drew more than 180 of the nation's leading experts from industry, research, policy, funding, and healthcare to discuss the most pressing issues in sepsis research and innovation. The success of this event is leading to the 2nd annual meeting in washington d.c. In 2026. Sepsis alliance also partnered with a broad network of industry leaders and research institutions to engage sepsis survivors, family members, and healthcare professionals in shaping critical research and development efforts, ensuring that innovation is informed by real-world patient and clinical experience. These initiatives underscore the organization's growing role as a convener and thought leader in sepsis research and innovation.
$240,069 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,071,734.
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 $1.2M to $4.0M (+221%).
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: 2019 16% · 2020 9% · 2021 12% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (69% 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
Thomas Heymann
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Steven Simpson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $32k → $351k.
10 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
49% 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 SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 44% · 2019 48% · 2020 33% · 2021 41% · 2022 19% · 2023 29% — 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
41% of SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
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 SEPSIS ALLIANCE 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC: 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 SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC?
- SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,692,063 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($323,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $1,692,063 in grants to SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC?
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $323,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEPSIS ALLIANCE INC 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 48 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