LifeSouth Community Blood Centers
Legal name: Lifesouth Community Blood Centers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591545914
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3522241600
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blood Supply Related
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,267,533
- Expenses
- $137,206,287
- Assets
- $121,770,861
- Liabilities
- $28,100,153
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIMBERLY E KINSELL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KIMBERLY E KINSELL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $758,256 total reported compensation
- JAMES D PETTYJOHN (CHIEF OP OFFICER): $383,803 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER M LOUGH (VP MEDICAL SERVICES): $341,615 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
LifeSouth is a non-profit community blood bank serving more than 200 hospitals and emergency service organizations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee. We are committed to meeting the blood supply needs of hospitals and their patients by providing the highest quality blood components and services. Our LifeSouth team is dedicated to making sure the blood is there when you or your family member is in need. Our Mission To provide a safe blood supply that meets or exceeds the needs in each community we serve, and to provide a variety of services in support of ongoing and emerging blood and transfusion-related activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lifesouth is in the business of saving lives by collecting and processing blood and blood components from volunteer donors in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. It collected approximately 299,000 donations in fy 2025. Each unit collected is tested to fulfill our mission of providing an adequate and safe blood supply to more than 120 hospitals in the three states. Lifesouth also provides immunohematology, molecular, histocompatibility, and other advanced laboratory services to hospitals, blood centers, and industry partners. Lifesouth's laboratories provided clinical testing for almost 12,900 patient testing requests and provided over 26,000 specialty blood products for patients in our communities. In addition, lifesouth performed more than 1,600 therapeutic apheresis procedures for patients during the year. Lifesouth's umbilical cord bank provides units for transplantation worldwide. In 2025, lifesouth safely added and cryopreserved 290 new cord blood units. In addition, lifesouth operates a medical technology training program. Lifesouth also operates a specialist in blood banking (sbb) certificate program which is an independent educational program offering training in all aspects of blood banking and transfusion medicine including: blood collection, product manufacturing, transfusion medicine practice, immunohematology, specialized laboratory testing, quality systems, process control, education, and management. Finally, the lifesouth research institute represents a concerted effort to utilitize our unique resources to support and develop research initiatives that will change modern medicine. We also strive to make lifesouth a central point for donors to contribute to their communities in new and exciting ways, allowing them to save lives today and into the future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $124.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $758K · 36 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8.9M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.