Mississippi Blood Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237447676
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Flowood, MS, USA
Phone
6013682665
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Blood Supply Related

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$22,645,089
Expenses
$22,600,439
Assets
$17,511,745
Liabilities
$2,388,565

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER SWAFFORD (PRESIDENT AND CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTOPHER SWAFFORD (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $355,781 total reported compensation
  • LISA KIRKPATRICK (CFO): $193,085 total reported compensation
  • NOREEN HALEY (VP-OPERATIONS): $165,473 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide a safe and adequate supply of voluntarily donated blood and blood components for patients in hospitals and to offer related services to hospitals and other medical facilities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Mississippi blood services (mbs) collected 58,186 units of red blood cells and apheresis platelets from volunteer donors.mbs distributed 58,298 blood products to area/regional hospitals used for patient transfusion.mbs donated $34,507 to various non-profit organizations.mbs provided the following services and goods free of charge to the community: - 880 therapeutic phlebotomies - 261 blood pressure and iron level checks - 54 students for blood typing lab activity for northwest rankin high school medical science class - 44 students for facility tour - hinds county career and technical center - 29 students for facility tour - northwest rankin high school medical science class - 38 students for blood typing lab activity for hinds community college (rankin campus) - 20 students for blood typing lab activity for germantown high school healthcare academy class - 118 students for blood typing lab activity for pearl high school - 8 students for blood typing lab activity for germantown high school - 76 students for blood typing student health fair for university of Mississippi william magee center for aod and wellness education - 19 students for blood typing lab activity for pisgah high school healthcare academy class - 48 students for facility tour - belhaven university baseball team - 22 students for blood typing/health fair - steel services corporation - 20 students for blood typing lab activity for pelahatchie high school - 45 students for blood typing lab activity for neshoba central high school - 8 students for blood typing lab activity for mize high school - 47 students for blood typing lab activity for germantown high school 1 participant - staff participated in women build habitat for humanity - 576 cans for food drive for Mississippi food network - 240 children and 114 families served by 6 boxes of items for toys for tots - buns and tomatoes to stewpot community (7 family sized hot dog buns, 12 family sized hamburger buns and 5 pounds tomatoes) - 9 printers, 20 computers, 2 laptops, 2 ups, 4 airap, 9 monitors, 12 servers, 146 telephones and 12 cordless phones to jackson state university

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 90.7%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $272.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 0.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 90.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $356K · 20 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.9M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.