OneLegacy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953138799
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Azusa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2132295600
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Organ and Tissue Banks
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,795,454
- Expenses
- $128,676,640
- Assets
- $217,331,658
- Liabilities
- $90,318,246
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHOWDARY P GARIMELLA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- CHOWDARY P GARIMELLA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $1,151,083 total reported compensation
- THOMAS D MONE (CHIEF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OFFICER): $725,029 total reported compensation
- TOM K SETO (CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER): $568,779 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Recover human organs and tissues for transplant and medical research to save and improve lives. In every situation, we are empathetic with and advocate for the donor, donor family, and recipients, ensuring that final wishes are honored, families are comforted, and waiting recipients receive lifesaving and healing transplants. Stewardship We are accountable for and committed to the responsible use of our resources, so we can fulfill our mission, support our communities and prepare for the future. OneLegacy is the nation’s largest OPO, serving the diverse Southern California region. Working with hospitals, physicians, transplant centers and the community, OneLegacy educates about and facilitates donation, as well as builds a community of long-term support for the families who give the generous gift of life. Our Mission: Saving Lives and Sharing Hope.
What it reported doing in 2024
Organ, eye, and tissue donation in the united states is more than just a pink donor dot on your driver's license. There is a well established and experienced network of federally designated non-profits across the country, called organ procurement organizations (opos), all working together to save lives.onelegacy is the nation's largest opo, serving the diverse southern California region. Working with hospitals, physicians, transplant centers and the community, onelegacy educates about and facilitates donation, as well as builds a community of long-term support for the families who give the generous gift of life. Onelegacy is southern California's organ, eye, and tissue recovery organization, serving the region's bridge to life, connecting donors to patients in need.during 2024, onelegacy had 740 recovered donors, 2,470 organs recovered for transplant, and 1,940 organs transplanted to organ recipients.
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 96% 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. 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: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 34th 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: 9.9%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th 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: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 25 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $12.5M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 25 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.