Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network

Analysis

Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network is a registered charity in United States, based in Itasca, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network reported income of $130.8m and spending of $127.9m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $76.2m to $130.8m (+72%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Emanate Health Foothill Presbyterian Hospital ($130.6m), Sealy & Smith Foundation ($130.8m) and Upmc ($130.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $3.4m (2.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $32.0m. At year end it held assets of $151.9m against liabilities of $27.0m, net assets of $124.8m. It reported 437 employees.