Midwest Transplant Network
Legal name: Midwest Transplant Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431016328
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Westwood, KS, United States
- Phone
- 913-262-1668
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Organ and Tissue Banks
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,482,288
- Expenses
- $105,301,246
- Assets
- $84,425,926
- Liabilities
- $19,458,357
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAN FINN (PRESIDENT, CEO)
- LORI MARKHAM (VICE-PRESIDENT, CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JAN FINN (PRESIDENT, CEO): $760,119 total reported compensation
- LORI MARKHAM (VICE-PRESIDENT, CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER): $491,339 total reported compensation
- RYAN SCHMIDT (SRG. ORGAN RECOVERY SPECIALIST): $474,677 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Midwest Transplant Network (MTN) has been connecting lives in Kansas and western Missouri since 1973. As a federally certified, not-for-profit organ procurement organization (OPO), we work with organ, eye, and tissue donors, their families, hospitals, and other professional partners to extend legacies, provide hope and give life. Together with our partners and volunteers (“Ambassadors”), we are dedicated to increasing awareness and education about the need for organ, eye and tissue donation. Our mission: Saving lives by honoring the gift of organ and tissue donation with dignity and compassion.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tissue recovery: 1,682 tissue donors; 486 cornea donors; 5,885 tissues and corneas recovered. See schedule o for additional information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 50th 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; 65th 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: -4.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $88.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $760K · 30 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 31 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.