Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE BLOOD CENTER
THE BLOOD CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $115,709 to it, the largest being METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ($115,709). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $52M
What The Blood Center does
Mission
The Blood Center is a non-profit, community service organization guided by a volunteer, independent 18-member board of directors, comprised of community leaders and hospital representatives. The staff is composed of over 200 professionals, (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Blood and components - The Blood Center recruits, collects, processes and distributes blood and blood components for over 40 hospitals and healthcare facilities. The blood products are provided to the facilities on a fee for service basis.
$18,931,514 spent$23,278,556 earned by the program88% of program spendingOutside testing - The Blood Center provides infectious disease testing to determine the suitability of donated blood, platelets and plasma. This testing is performed for hospitals and other health care organizations located primarily in louisiana and mississippi.
$1,149,639 spent$1,823,966 earned by the program5% of program spendingReference lab - provides transfusion services (blood cross match and antibody identification) to client hospitals, to ensure safe and effective blood and blood components for transfusion to patients at over 40 facilities. The reference lab also resolves complex serological cases and provides rare blood units through the american rare donor program (ardp).
$1,162,667 spent$1,517,384 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther related areas included in other program services is therapeutic apheresis. Therapeutic apheresis is the process of removing abnormal or pathologic substances from a patient's blood using automated blood cell separator equipment, while returning all other blood components. Red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, or platelets may be selectively removed, as requsted by the patient's physician. Examples would be the removal of abnormal red blood cells in a sickle cell anemia patient, leukemia cells prior to chemotherapy, plasma in patients with abnormal antibody production or platelets in patients with high counts at risk for stroke. The Blood Center nursing staff, under the supervision of the medical director, brings the latest mobile therapeutic apheresis technology directly to the patient's bedside.
$334,900 spent$413,780 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther
$173,411 earned by the program
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,578,720.
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 $48M to $55M (+13%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 4% · 2023 0% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of THE BLOOD CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% 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.
Chief executive
William C Weales
Director, president & CEO
Board chair
Bret Clesi
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE BLOOD CENTER’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE BLOOD CENTER's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE BLOOD CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE BLOOD CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$5.7M
- Department of Defense$3.3M
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 THE BLOOD CENTER
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Blood Center Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BLOOD CENTER: 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 THE BLOOD CENTER?
- THE BLOOD CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $115,709 to it, the largest being METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ($115,709). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BLOOD CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $115,709 in grants to THE BLOOD CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BLOOD CENTER?
- METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BLOOD CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 1 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