Nmdp

Legal name: National Marrow Donor Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
840865803
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Minneapolis, MN, United States
Phone
7634065800
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Organ and Tissue Banks

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$741,231,321
Expenses
$694,481,279
Assets
$474,546,080
Liabilities
$185,164,558

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMY RONNEBERG (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • HEATHER STEFANSKI (VICE PRESIDENT, MEDICAL SE)

Highest reported compensation

  • AMY RONNEBERG (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $2,152,247 total reported compensation
  • STEVEN DEVINE (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $1,158,613 total reported compensation
  • JEFFERY AULETTA (SVP & CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER): $985,324 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

NMDP’s mission is to save lives through cell therapy (including blood stem cell transplantation). After overcoming complications from three transplants, Nicole is now thriving. She’s surrounded by an incredible support system of family, friends and the online cancer community. Thanks to the generous donations from her siblings and her unrelated donor, Nicole has been given a second chance at life—and the opportunity to embrace it fully. Today, she spends her time outdoors, hiking and exploring nature, and enjoys every moment with her beloved cats, savoring the simple joys that make life meaningful. Learn more about becoming a donor. A smiling woman with dark hair in an orange dress stands between a man in a light-blue collared shirt and a woman in a white shirt.

What it reported doing in 2024

Research: research innovations are critical to expanding treatment to more patients and improving outcomes. Each year, the nmdp foundation is proud to invest in research through: the nmdp amy strelzer manasevit research program: the amy program funds early career investigators focused on advances in the prevention and treatment of post-cell therapy complications (e.g., graft-versus-host -disease and infection).in 2025, nmdp foundation funded the work of 12 amy scholars. Amy scholars have gone on to become leaders in the field, pursuing scientific advances that help nmdp patients live longer, healthier lives. Since 1998, the nmdp foundation has invested nearly $13 million to help launch the careers of 53 young physician-scientists. After receiving their nmdp amy scholar award, 53 young physician-scientists have gone on to win more than $250 million in subsequent government grant funding to pursue the discoveries to help patients live longer, healthier lives after cell therapy. Today, the amy strelzer manasevit research program for the study of post-cell therapy complications is one of the largest and most coveted fellowships in the field of transplantation.nmdp donor for all: this series of transformational multi-center clinical trials is testing a new transplant protocol aimed at making mismatched donor transplants safer and more effective, with the goal of expanding access to transplant to thousands of patients who lack a fully matched donor.anthony nolan trust: provide support to the anthony nolan research institute to continue development and maintenance of an hla class i and ii sequence database and provision of hla class i and ii sequence information.cibmtr (center for international blood and marrow transplant research) a partnership between the medical college of Wisconsin and nmdp is the leading hub for transplant and cell therapy research. Nmdp foundation helps to fund various other innovative research studies led and managed by cibmtr.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $61.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 43rd 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: 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: 6.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $592.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.2M · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $28.1M reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, 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: 19 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 9 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.