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The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest

The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,653 to it, the largest being Vitalant ($171,968). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$570k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$195k
Net assets
$9.1M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest does

Mission

The Blood Center Foundation Inland Northwest exists for the purpose of directly and indirectly supporting the charitable, educational and other tax-exempt activities of Vitalant in Spokane, WA and its surrounding community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Identify and cultivate potential donors, receive contributions in support of the mission, oversee investment of the endowment, review grant requests, and distribute funds to those grant recipients chosen from the selection process.

    $384,549 spentof which $288,369 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $384,549.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($509k) Net assets 100 ($7.4M)2018 Revenue 8 ($333k) Expenses 105 ($534k) Net assets 113 ($8.3M)2019 Revenue 4 ($163k) Expenses 107 ($543k) Net assets 119 ($8.8M)2020 Revenue 5 ($191k) Expenses 104 ($528k) Net assets 121 ($8.9M)2021 Revenue 13 ($520k) Expenses 94 ($480k) Net assets 127 ($9.4M)2022 Revenue 9 ($357k) Expenses 78 ($396k) Net assets 106 ($7.8M)2023 Revenue 4 ($176k) Expenses 39 ($199k) Net assets 117 ($8.6M)2024 Revenue 14 ($570k) Expenses 91 ($462k) Net assets 124 ($9.1M)
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Revenue (14)Expenses (91)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

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 $9.4M to $7.8M (−16%).

$7.4M
$8.3M
$8.8M
$8.9M
$9.4M
$7.8M
$8.7M
$9.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

34% of The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.6M
’17
−$201k
’18
−$380k
’19
−$337k
’20
$40k
’21
−$39k
’22
−$23k
’23
$107k
’24
8.1
months of
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

Tricia Cheevers

Executive Director

Board chair

Patrick Schmidt

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed12126655912
Joined·+2+1+1+0+0+4+5
No longer listed·2711002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $23k → $155k.

Funder
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'20
'22
'24*
total
Vitalantunclassified
$172k
funders
1
1
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest’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

The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest.

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.

AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve8.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−25% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Vitalant · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest?
The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,653 to it, the largest being Vitalant ($171,968). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $194,653 in grants to The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest?
Vitalant is the largest funder on record, with $171,968 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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