DCI Donor Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581990866
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 1-877-401-2517
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Organ and Tissue Banks
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,853,313
- Expenses
- $160,424,274
- Assets
- $146,373,363
- Liabilities
- $47,083,256
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- H KEITH JOHNSON MD (PRESIDENT)
- JILL GRANDAS (CORPORATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SEAN VAN SLYCK (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER - OPO)
- KELLY SCOTT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER - TISSUE BANK)
- WAYNE DUNLAP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU 8/24))
Highest reported compensation
- MARTY SELLERS (ORGAN RECOVERY SURGEON): $666,248 total reported compensation
- DONOVAN SCHULTZ (TREASURER): $554,928 total reported compensation
- JILL GRANDAS (CORPORATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $528,329 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
DCI Donor Services, Inc. (DCIDS) is a top-performing, nonprofit healthcare organization committed to saving and improving lives through organ, eye and tissue donation. We are comprised of several organ procurement organizations (**“OPOs”**). In pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives, we provide services that facilitate the donation and transplantation of organs and tissue, which includes the processing of certain tissues for transplanting. We also perform certain autotransplantation services. In accordance with applicable law (including 45 C.F.R. § 164.512(h) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (**“HIPAA”**)) our OPOs may receive protected health information from health care providers who are covered entities under HIPAA without individual authorization or consent. Our OPOs may do so for purposes of facilitating organ, eye,.
What it reported doing in 2024
Dci donor services, inc. ("dcids") is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that operates three federally certified organ procurement organizations (opos), an eye bank (eb), and a full service tissue bank (tb). Dcids promotes the donation of human organs and tissues, primarily for transplant, through education programs for the general public and health professionals, and through agreements with various hospitals and medical professionals provides the organs and tissues recovered by its member organizations. Each of the opos is certified by the center for medicare and medicaid services and designated by the us secretary of health and human services to participate in the federal medicare program. Each opo is an institutional member of both the association of organ procurement organizations as well as the united network for organ sharing, which holds the contract to function as the national organ procurement and transplant network mandated by federal law. The tb follows requirements set by the centers for disease control, us food and drug administration, as well as the standards established by the american association of tissue banks and is a fully accredited member of that organization as well. The eb follows standards established by the eye bank association of america, and is an accredited member of that organization. Accordingly, the opos seek reimbursement for expenses incurred in coordinating the recovery of organs that are sent to transplanting hospitals and annually file a federal cost report detailing and reconciling its revenue and expenses. The tb derives its cost-covering revenues from hospitals or dentists who are transplanting tissues processed and/or distributed by the tb. The eb earns revenue to recover expenses by processing cornea tissue and providing corneas for transplant to surgery centers. All program service expenses of dcids are incurred in support of the above stated tax exempt procurement and educational activities. For the year ended september 30, 2025, dcids procured 2,652 organs and recovered 4,071 tissue donors for transplantation. In addition, dcids provided educational opportunities for nurses and physicians concerning issues in transplantation, as well as several programs to educate and heighten awareness of the general public concerning organ and tissue donation and transplantation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 93.1%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $114.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $666K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $10.2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 21 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.