Arizona · Nonprofit
Vitalant
Vitalant (Arizona) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,247,963 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($12,890,055). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $740M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $655M
What Vitalant does
Mission
Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Blood services division - blood banking the primary purpose of the blood services division (bsd) is to provide a safe and stable supply of blood and blood components to hospitals and medical facilities. The strength of bsd is that it operates as local blood centers that are part of the community and yet has access to a large networked organization with all the advantages and efficiencies that are realized through standardization and economies of scale. Bsd collects blood from volunteer donors, performs screening and testing on the donated blood, and processes the whole blood into blood components such as red cell platelets and plasma. Blood and blood components are then stored and distributed to hospitals and other health care providers.
$522,502,772 spentof which $1,686,667 as grants$579,070,693 earned by the program87% of program spendingVitalant laboratories (vl) - Vitalant laboratories' staff of highly trained and experienced personnel provide support and expertise to hospitals, transfusion and transplant centers and other healthcare facilities for their transfusion medicine needs. Vl operates eighteen laboratories for (irl) immunohematology reference lab, three (hla) histocompatibility laboratories and four (ctl) cellular therapy laboratories. Together they solve some of the most complex immunohematologic compatibility cases and ensure life-saving blood and cellular therapy services to hospitals all across the united states. For healthcare facilities in multiple states, vl also serves as a blood bank, providing complete transfusion services including patient compatibility testing and delivery.
$44,992,995 spent$63,872,048 earned by the program7% of program spendingVitalant research institute (vri) - the Vitalant research institute carries out studies funded by extramural grants (nih and other agencies) and receives intramural funding from Vitalant between $5.0m and $7.0m each year. Vri has historically been noted for contributions to infectious disease testing / monitoring, epidemiology / public policy, and selected non-infectious risks of transfusion. Recent research efforts include characterization of metabolic and genetic factors that influence red blood cell stability, and since the pandemic, a host of critically important studies to understand sars-cov-2 epidemiology, the safety of the blood supply, the time course of its antibody response/immunity and the efficacy of covid convalescent plasma. A public service, vri's research extends far beyond organizational development efforts, benefiting patients all over the us (and the world) as well as competing us blood centers, improving blood product quality, recipient safety, and the donor experience. Vri supports training programs for specialists in transfusion medicine and the development of research scientists in a host of transfusion medicine subspecialties. Vri investigators published…
$34,866,816 spent$31,054,872 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $602,362,583.
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 2020 to 2021, from $565M to $766M (+36%).
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 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Vitalant’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $3.5M → $3.4M.
12 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $33M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Vitalant Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Vitalant raised.
From the IRS filings of Vitalant’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Vitalant leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Vitalant.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 56% · 2022 79% · 2023 74% — 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
41% of Vitalant'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
69% of Vitalant's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.2M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Vitalant is better cushioned than half of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding Vitalant receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $202.3M on record — $202.3M federal, $550 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$151.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$46.3M
- Department of Defense$5.1M
- Department of the Interior$40k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $550
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 Vitalant
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Canyon State Property Holding LLC · disregarded
- Plasmasource LLC · disregarded
- Vitalant Foundation · exempt
- Hemophilia Center of Western Pa · exempt
- Canyon State Insurance Company · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vitalant: 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 Vitalant?
- Vitalant (Arizona) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,247,963 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($12,890,055). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Vitalant have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $20,247,963 in grants to Vitalant, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vitalant?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,890,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vitalant find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing