Southwest Transplant Alliance
Legal name: Southwest Transplant Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751469319
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, United States
- Phone
- 214-522-0255
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Organ and Tissue Banks
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,988,685
- Expenses
- $95,834,550
- Assets
- $112,484,098
- Liabilities
- $58,749,694
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRADLEY L ADAMS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BRADLEY L ADAMS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $780,799 total reported compensation
- GEOFF FUNK (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $683,259 total reported compensation
- PETER J HORTON (RECOVERY SURGEON): $556,166 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Southwest Transplant Alliance is a nonprofit organ procurement organization whose mission is to save lives through donation. Southwest Transplant Alliance is one of three organ procurement organizations (OPOs) that provide recovery operations in Texas. Learn more about partner organizations at Donate Life Texas. _Southwest Transplant Alliance’s facility is designed to support our lifesaving mission, revolutionizes organ donation and transplantation by providing the nation’s most advanced care and supporting donors and their families._. _Southwest Transplant Alliance’s facility is designed to support our lifesaving mission, revolutionizes organ donation and transplantation by providing the nation’s most advanced care and supporting donors and their families._ The facility is home to the organization’s corporate headquarters and The Legacy Center — a state of the art, in-house recovery...
What it reported doing in 2024
Procurement of human organs for transplantation. In 2024, the organization had 782 organ donors, and recovered 2,554 organs for transplantation.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- 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: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: 8.7%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $781K · 19 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8.6M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.