Solvita
Legal name: Community Blood Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310684163
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Dayton, OH, United States
- Phone
- 855-SOLVITA
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Organ and Tissue Banks
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $302,991,373
- Expenses
- $266,949,657
- Assets
- $541,567,151
- Liabilities
- $150,953,266
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Graham (President & CEO)
- David M Smith MD (Former CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Christopher Graham (President & CEO): $1,248,068 total reported compensation
- Diane Wilson (Chief Operations Officer): $826,122 total reported compensation
- Mark Graham (Chief Administrative Officer): $629,558 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
& History > _“Solvita comes from “sol” meaning sun and “vita” meaning life. As sunlight nurtures new life, we take the donor gift and transform it into new hope, bringing the light of healing to patients around the globe in need of tissue transplants.”_ Mission. > _“Solvita comes from “sol” meaning sun and “vita” meaning life. As sunlight nurtures new life, we take the donor gift and transform it into new hope, bringing the light of healing to patients around the globe in need of tissue transplants.”_ Mission Empowering people to save and enhance lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tissue Services - As a community tissue service organization, CTS is a provider of services to donor families, recipients, and the community through education, recovery, processing and distribution of tissue grafts. CTS ensures an informed donor family, the respectful removal of tissue from the donor, and the processing and safekeeping of the donated tissue until it is delivered for transplantation to a recipient. CTS pays any direct tissue costs and reconstruction fees along with transportation of the tissue donation. The donors do not incur any expenses. CTS is available to recipients to answer questions and tracks recipient's information in the case of an adverse event. CTS researches and develops new technology to better serve recipients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 57
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $218M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 30 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $45.1M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.