National Foundation for Transplants

What National Foundation for Transplants does

National Foundation for Transplants operates transplants.org, a free 501(c)(3) nonprofit platform that helps organ and stem cell transplant patients and families find, compare, and learn about U.S. transplant centers. The flagship product, the Transplant Center Finder, is a searchable database that allows users to compare centers by location, annual procedure volumes, patient survival outcomes, and program details across all major organ types (heart, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, intestine, VCA) and both stem cell transplant modalities (allogeneic, autologous). Supporting modules provide expert-vetted educational resources and donation information covering organ and stem cell donation registration, living donation, and eligibility. According to source data, the transplants.org website is now operated by Transplants.org, Inc., a newly formed 501(c)(3) (established 2026, Federal Tax ID 87-2539078) that explicitly disclaims affiliation with the prior owner, National Foundation for Transplants; firmographic records also list the legacy NFT as founded 1983 in Memphis with 11-50 employees, creating some ambiguity about entity continuity that this analysis notes but cannot resolve from the input.

The platform is built as a web-based application, with city-level landing pages (e.g., New York 54 centers, Los Angeles 19, Chicago 19, Boston 17, San Francisco 13, Dallas 13) and individual center profile pages, and it ingests publicly available data from authoritative registries including OPTN (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network), SRTR (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients), CIBMTR (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), and BMTInfoNet. Infrastructure is supported by Oracle as Founding Tech Partner, and the organization is advised by transplant leadership from Vanderbilt Health, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, UCLA Health, and Duke Health, with Lung Bioengineering serving as Founding Visionary Sponsor.

The business model is donation-driven rather than fee-based. No pricing applies to patients or families, who access all tools free of charge; the organization funds operations through one-time and monthly giving plus founding sponsor support. Its customers are end-user patients and families seeking transplant information (a horizontal segment), while its enterprise counterparties are the major transplant centers that gain visibility on the platform and the founding/advising institutions that lend credibility. Go-to-market is direct-to-consumer through the website, with content marketing and SEO as primary channels. The company has no disclosed AI capabilities, no disclosed funding rounds, and no disclosed revenue.

Name

National Foundation for Transplants

Legal name

Transplants.org, Inc.

Website

https://transplants.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2026

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

National Foundation for Transplants operates transplants.org, a free 501(c)(3) platform that helps organ and stem cell transplant patients and families find and compare U.S. transplant centers by location, volume, and patient survival outcomes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Transplant patient information and support services

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Blood, Organ & Tissue Donation Organizations (BPAGACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK)

Keywords

• Transplant center comparison
• Transplant patient resources
• Organ donation education
• Stem cell transplant information
• Nonprofit health resources

Headquarters

HQ city

Memphis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and charitable contributions: The organization is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit that raises funds through donations. The website includes options for one-time giving and monthly giving. Federal Tax ID: 87-2539078.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

National Foundation for Transplants operates a free, web-based platform that helps organ and stem cell transplant patients and families search and compare U.S. transplant centers by location, annual procedure volume, and patient survival outcomes, and provides expert-vetted educational resources on organ transplants, stem cell transplants, and donation. The organization funds operations through charitable donations and does not charge patients or families for access.

Product overview

Transplants.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides a free online platform for transplant patients and families to find and compare transplant centers, learn about organ and stem cell donation, and access educational resources. The core offering consists of a Transplant Center Finder tool that allows users to search and compare centers by location, volume, and survival outcomes. Supporting modules cover organ transplant types (heart, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, intestine, VCA), stem cell transplant types (allogeneic, autologous), and donation information (organ donation registration, living donation, stem cell donation). The platform is advised by transplant leadership from major medical institutions including Vanderbilt Health, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, UCLA Health, and Duke Health.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Transplant Center Finder

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Vanderbilt HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory partner providing transplant leadership expertise. Vanderbilt Health is represented in the advisory board that guides the organization's mission and resources.
• Mayo CliniccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory partner providing transplant leadership expertise. Mayo Clinic is represented in the advisory board that guides the organization's mission and resources.
• Cleveland CliniccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory partner providing transplant leadership expertise. Cleveland Clinic is represented in the advisory board that guides the organization's mission and resources.
• UCLA HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory partner providing transplant leadership expertise. UCLA Health is represented in the advisory board that guides the organization's mission and resources.
• Duke HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvisory partner providing transplant leadership expertise. Duke Health is represented in the advisory board that guides the organization's mission and resources.
• OracleflagshipTechnology or IntegrationOracle serves as the Founding Tech Partner, providing technology infrastructure support for the organization's platform and operations.
• Lung BioengineeringminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLung Bioengineering serves as a Founding Visionary Sponsor, supporting the organization's mission to advance transplant accessibility.
• CIBMTR (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research)minorOthersCIBMTR provides publicly available data that is included on the Transplants.org platform for transparency and helping patients make informed decisions.
• BMTInfoNetminorOthersBMTInfoNet provides publicly available data that is included on the Transplants.org platform for transparency and helping patients make informed decisions.
• OPTN (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network)minorOthersOPTN provides publicly available data that is included on the Transplants.org platform for transparency and helping patients make informed decisions.
• SRTR (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients)minorOthersSRTR provides publicly available data that is included on the Transplants.org platform for transparency and helping patients make informed decisions.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Be The Match (National Marrow Donor Program): Operates the U.S. stem cell donor registry and provides extensive patient and family education resources for blood and marrow transplants. Direct peer in stem cell transplant information and donor recruitment.
• HelpHopeLive: Nonprofit (formerly National Transplant Assistance Fund) that helps transplant and catastrophic-injury patients raise funds for out-of-pocket costs. Direct peer in the transplant-support and fundraising space.
• Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA): 501(c)(3) that helps families of children needing organ or stem cell transplants with fundraising and support. Directly comparable mission, beneficiary population, and donation-driven funding model.
• American Transplant Foundation: Nonprofit that supports transplant patients and living donors through education, financial assistance, and advocacy. Comparable patient-navigation and donor-support focus.
• National Foundation for Transplants (NFT): The prior owner and namesake of the transplants.org website. Provides fundraising assistance for transplant patients and is the most direct historical peer, though the subject company explicitly states no current affiliation.
• BMTInfoNet: Nonprofit providing education and support to blood and marrow transplant patients, survivors, and caregivers. Direct peer in transplant patient education and a current data partner of the subject platform.

Broad incumbents

• Healthline: Major consumer health information publisher with extensive transplant and organ-disease content. Broader incumbent competing for the same informational and search-traffic audience.
• United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS): Nonprofit that manages the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under federal contract. Authoritative source of transplant data that the subject platform aggregates; comparable patient-facing content via transplantliving.org.

Regional players

• Donor Alliance: Organ procurement organization serving Colorado and Wyoming with public-facing donor education and registration resources. Regional peer in the organ-donation information and registration space.

Others

• CIBMTR (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research): Research collaboration that maintains transplant outcome data and provides publicly available statistics. Data partner and adjacent information provider rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fortransplants

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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