South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Blood Connection Inc
The Blood Connection Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,690 to it, the largest being ABB FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $144M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $65M
What The Blood Connection Inc does
Mission
Healthcare partners supported by adequate, safe, cost-effective blood supplies and services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Blood donor program: allogeneic whole blood donor program: affords free opportunity for patrons to participate in community service in the form of voluntary whole blood donations. For donors - early detection & treatment opportunity for high blood pressure, anemia, abnormal pulse rate and other illnesses found during blood donor screening. Autologous blood program: affords free opportunity for patients to provide their own blood in advance of medical treatment. Reduction in demand on community blood supply, reduced risk of transfusion transmitted disease. Directed blood donor program: affords opportunity for patients to designate donors of the blood for the patients transfusions. Automated collection apheresis (platelet, plasma & rbc) donor program: affords free opportunity for patrons to participate in community service in the form of voluntary, automated donations. Therapeutic service program: provides free therapeutic phlebotomy for patients with blood disorders such a polycythemia and hemochromatosis. Cellular program: hematopoietic progenitor cell processing services: provides cellular therapy services including processing, cryopreservation, storage, infusion preparations for…
$95,358,967 spent$148,425,685 earned by the program72% of program spendingSee schedule o blood processing storage and distribution: provision of blood components to healthcare providers: on a fee for service basis, preparation and distribution of blood components to hospitals, clinics, dialysis centers, blood banks, and blood fractionators. Goal: prepare blood components and distribute according to needs of healthcare clients. Maintain consistent (5-7 day supply) inventory of all types units of plasma distributed for blood derivative preparation. Cost containment for healthcare of blood components, for healthcare clients, number of patient beneficiaries, derived health benefits, lives saved.
$19,172,934 spent14% of program spendingSee schedule o laboratory services: donated blood testing program: uses laboratory serologic, chemistry, and infectious disease assays to assess the suitability of donated blood, platelets and plasma. For donors detection of infectious disease for which donor may seek treatment. Positive public health consequences of disease detection, partner notification, exposure control.
$18,024,135 spent$417,717 earned by the program14% of program spendingAdditional program expenses include interest expenses and program related administrative expenses.
$564,467 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,120,503.
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 2022 to 2023, from $72M to $89M (+23%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of The Blood Connection Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Delisa English
President/CEO
Board chair
Walker McSwain
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $98 → $102.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Connection Inc’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 Connection Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
34% 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 Connection Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 Connection Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $577 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
The Blood Connection Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding The Blood Connection Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$7.5M
- Department of Defense$101k
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 Connection 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Blood Connection 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 The Blood Connection Inc?
- The Blood Connection Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,690 to it, the largest being ABB FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Blood Connection Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,690 in grants to The Blood Connection Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Blood Connection Inc?
- ABB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Blood Connection Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 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