Vitalant
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860098929
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 877-258-4825
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blood Supply Related
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $739,592,382
- Expenses
- $738,892,381
- Assets
- $891,045,288
- Liabilities
- $235,554,666
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID GREEN (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID GREEN (PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,802,965 total reported compensation
- ROBERT VAN TUYLE (EVP, CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $936,503 total reported compensation
- RALPH VASSALLO MD (EVP, CHIEF MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC OFFICER): $812,523 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transform the lives of patients in need by donating blood today. Another way you can help hospital patients is when you host a blood drive. Community organizations, businesses and individuals are always needed to take on this role. You can host a blood drive in person or virtually. Review the sections below for more information on how to host a blood drive. Learn about Hosting a Blood Drive What does it take to be a blood drive coordinator, also known as hosting a blood drive? No special skills are needed, simply a desire to help patients and a few basic requirements. Vitalant’s team will show you how to host a blood drive and guide you through the process. There are a couple options for hosting a blood drive.
What it reported doing in 2024
Vitalant research institute (vri) - the vitalant research institute carries out studies funded by extramural grants (nih and other agencies) and receives intramural funding from vitalant between $7.0m and $10.0m each year. Vri has historically been noted for contributions to infectious disease testing / monitoring, epidemiology / public policy, and selected non-infectious risks of transfusion. Recent research efforts include characterization of metabolic and genetic factors that influence red blood cell stability, and since the pandemic, a host of critically important studies to understand sars-cov-2 epidemiology, the safety of the blood supply, the time course of its antibody response/immunity and the efficacy of covid convalescent plasma. A public service, vri's research extends far beyond organizational development efforts, benefiting patients all over the us (and the world) as well as competing us blood centers, improving blood product quality, recipient safety, and the donor experience. Vri supports training programs for specialists in transfusion medicine and the development of research scientists in a host of transfusion medicine subspecialties. Vri investigators published more than 100 peer-reviewed original research papers in 2024 along with many more reviews, editorials, book chapters and scientific meeting abstracts. Together, vri's 12 investigators, 2 clinical investigators, 16 affiliated investigators, 6 core leaders, 10 administrative staff and ~70 scientists, technologists and post-docs have contributed to major discoveries in transfusion safety and efficacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th 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: 87% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $632.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.8M · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $60M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, 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: 39 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.