Grants for organ banks

Name: Top 25 grants made to organ and tissue banks
Creator: Cause IQ
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85 organ and tissue banks received at least $8.5 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 151 grants made from 137 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 137 foundations, 92% made just a single grant to organ banks, and 0% made grants to four or more organ banks. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$8,485,536

Total grant dollars given to organ banks

151

Number of grants made annually to organ banks

137

Number of grantmakers funding organ banks

$1,000

Median grant size to organ banks

Foundations that support organ and tissue banks

Out of all grants made to organ banks, 77% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 97% of the dollar-value of grants to organ banks. Foundations funding organ banks also made grants to religious organizations, multiservice human service organizations, jewish organizations, food banks, and international development organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	106
Medium	17
Large	14

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	4
Private	109
Corporate	16
Other	8

Grants made

Grants made to organ banks	Number of grantmakers
1	127
2-3	10
4-10	0
11+	0

Top 10 foundations supporting organ and tissue banks

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to organ banks	Number of grants made to organ banks	Median grant size
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.0%	3	$260
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.0%	3	$1,000
Baxter	IL	National	0.0%	3	$650
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	3	$100
Brad Sethness Foundation	IL	Regional	3.8%	2	$5,000
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	2	$1,540
The Jamf Nation Global Foundation	MN	Regional	0.4%	2	$940
Ani Mamin Foundation	NY	Metro	0.3%	2	$750
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.0%	2	$471
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.0%	2	$300

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Organ and tissue banks grantees

Organ banks with more than $5 million in total revenues received 99% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 79% of all organ banks.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	150
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	1

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,550
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$1,250
$1M-$5M	$1,300
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	43
Florida	21
Indiana	19
Minnesota	13
Other	55

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	45
Miami	19
Bloomington, IN	17
Minneapolis	13
Other	57

Top 25 grants made to organ banks

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Be the Match	$8,245,676	Research Subaward	Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW)
Donate Life Wisconsin	$5,000	Organ Donation Awareness	Matt Schmidt Faith Foundation
Cota - Children's Organ Transplant Association	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Herbert and Nell Singer Foundation
Gift of Life Marrow Registry	$5,000	Charitable	Thomas D and Denise R Stern Family Foundation
Lifeline of Ohio Organ Procurement	$5,000	Health	The Columbus Foundation
Cota - Children's Organ Transplant Association	$5,000	Aid To Child's Transplant	The Keeter Foundation
Kleb	$5,000	G41 Eye Diseases Blindness & Vision Impairment	The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository
Gift of Life Marrow Registry	$5,000	To Provide Support To Exempt Organization	Robins Nest Family Foundation
Donate Life Georgia	$5,000	2019 December Daf Grants	The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area
Gift of Life Marrow Registry	$5,000	General Operations	The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation
ConnectLife	$5,000	Support Ali's Rally Foundation	AlloSource
Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research	$5,000	New Standards for Ocular Endeavors To Change Quality of the Blind & Visually Impaired	Partnersfinancial Charitable Foundation
Be the Match	$5,000	Charitable	Kevin and Pamela Kelly Family Foundation
Donate Life America	$5,000	Sponsorship	Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA)
Renewal	$5,000	Charitable	Asm Family Charitable Foundation Trust
Lifeline of Ohio Organ Procurement	$5,000	Contribution	OhioHealth
Transplant Support Organization	$5,000	To Help Activities of Var Public Char Inst Which Are Exempt Under 501 (C)(3)	Esther Koven Foundation
Gift of Life Marrow Registry	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Eliot H and June L Tatelman Family Foundation
Hawaii Lions Foundation	$5,000	Hawaii Lions Statewide Child Hearing Screening Program	Central Pacific Bank Foundation
Gift of Life Marrow Registry	$5,000	General Support	The Lautenberg Foundation
Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry Corporation	$5,000	Charitable	K George and Carolann S Najarian Charitable Foundation
Cota - Children's Organ Transplant Association	$5,000	Providing Fundraising and Family Support To Children and Young Adults in Need of A Life-Saving Transplant.	Shepard Family Foundation
Donor Alliance	$5,000	Unrestricted	Brad Sethness Foundation
Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank	$5,000	Unrestricted	Brad Sethness Foundation
Cota - Children's Organ Transplant Association	$4,000	General Donation	Eleanor and Herman Gans Private Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Organ banks" category for this page is determined by the "E65: Organ and Tissue Bank" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.