Fundacja DKMS

What Fundacja DKMS does

Fundacja DKMS is an independent Polish non-profit foundation (Organizacja Pożytku Publicznego) established in 2008 and headquartered in Warsaw, operating the country's largest bone marrow donor registry. The foundation has built a database of approximately 2.1 million registered potential donors, of whom 17,000 have gone on to actually donate stem cells or bone marrow to blood cancer patients. Its functional role spans donor recruitment, HLA tissue typing coordination (via the affiliated DKMS Life Science Lab), and clinical match-making in cooperation with Poltransplant, the Polish national transplant coordination authority.

The foundation's core technology centers on HLA tissue-typing data accumulated across more than fifteen years of recruitment, supported by cloud infrastructure (AWS) for donor database operations, web properties, and event-driven registration loads. Donor acquisition combines community-led physical events with virtual donor registration days and educational webinars, drawing on partnerships with firefighter, police, school, and corporate cohorts. The 2026 launch of the Program Rozwoju Hematologii i Wsparcia Pacjentów extends the foundation's scope downstream into patient-support services beyond pure recruitment.

Revenue is generated through a diversified non-profit funding mix: voluntary contributions from registrants (an optional 180 PLN donation at sign-up), 1.5% personal income tax designations by Polish taxpayers under the public-benefit mechanism, corporate and community partnerships, and patient-support grants. The foundation serves two primary constituencies — blood cancer patients needing stem cell transplants and Polish residents willing to register as potential donors — operating within the broader international DKMS group while retaining operational independence in Poland.

Name

Fundacja DKMS

Legal name

Fundacja DKMS

Website

https://dkms.pl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Polish non-profit bone marrow donor registry with 2.1M registered donors and 17,000 actual donors, facilitating HLA-matched stem cell donations for blood cancer patients in cooperation with Poltransplant and the global DKMS group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Bone Marrow Donor Registry and Patient Support Services

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Blood, Organ & Tissue Donation Organizations (BPAGACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Transplant (BMT/HSCT) (HLAKAFAI), Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

Keywords

• Bone marrow donor registry
• Stem cell donation
• Patient support services
• Community donor drives
• Blood cancer awareness

Headquarters

HQ city

Warszawa

HQ country

Poland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Monetary Donations: One-time and recurring financial donations from individuals and organizations supporting the foundation's mission. Donors can contribute via bank transfer, credit card, PayPal, BLIK, ApplePay, GooglePay, and through the Przelewy24 platform.
2. Tax-Deductible Contributions (1.5%): Polish taxpayers can donate 1.5% of their income tax to DKMS by specifying KRS 0000 318 602, providing a recurring revenue stream from individual tax contributions.
3. Patient Support Grants: Financial support provided to blood cancer patients for medical treatments, rehabilitation, and quality of life improvements through the Foundation's grant programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Fundacja DKMS operates Poland's largest bone marrow donor registry, maintaining a database of 2.1 million registered potential donors. The foundation recruits healthy adults to register as potential stem cell donors via online registration with mailed cheek-swab kits, coordinates HLA tissue typing and donor-patient matching, and provides patient support services including rehabilitation and financial grants for blood cancer patients.

Product overview

Fundacja DKMS operates as a bone marrow donor registry and patient support organization. The core product is the potential stem cell donor registration system, which allows individuals to register online and receive a mail-in DNA testing kit. Supporting services include online donation processing, virtual and in-person donor drive events, a patient support program offering rehabilitation and financial assistance, the Donor Club for active donors, volunteer coordination, educational webinars, and a knowledge hub. All services are offered free to donors and patients, with operational funding from monetary donations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rejestracja potencjalnego Dawcy szpiku (Potential Bone Marrow Donor Registration)
• Przekazanie darowizny (Online Donation Processing)
• Program Wsparcia Pacjentów (Patient Support Program)
• Dzień Dawcy Szpiku (Bone Marrow Donor Day)
• Wirtualne Dni Dawcy (Virtual Donor Days)

Quantifiable outcome

• 2,100,000 registered potential donors in Poland
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Poltransplant (Centralny Rejestr Niespokrewnionych Potencjalnych Dawców Szpiku i Krwi Pępowinowej)coreTechnology or IntegrationNational bone marrow donor registry coordination. DKMS shares donor data with the Polish national registry for international matching and transplant coordination.
• DKMS Life Science LabcoreTechnology or IntegrationInternational laboratories for tissue typing and sample analysis. Non-identifying donor data (donor number, gender, age, country, HLA typing) shared with international registries for global patient matching.
• Polish Hospitals and Transplant ClinicscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollection point coordination. DKMS works with clinics for stem cell and bone marrow collection procedures and patient care.
• Schools and UniversitiesmajorGTM or Marketing PartnerEducational institution partnerships for organizing bone marrow donor registration drives among students and staff.
• Corporate PartnersmajorGTM or Marketing PartnerCompanies organizing workplace bone marrow donor registration campaigns and supporting fundraising efforts.
• Firefighting Services (Strażacy)majorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with firefighter organizations including the 'Strażak na szlaku' mountain hiking challenge raising awareness and funds for blood cancer patients.
• Police (Policja)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerPolice officers participating as bone marrow donors and supporting awareness campaigns, including officers who have donated stem cells multiple times.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• DKMS Group gGmbH (parent): Global parent organization of Fundacja DKMS Poland. Operates bone marrow donor registries in Germany and several other countries. Directly comparable as the same mission and donor-registry model, but at a much larger, multi-country scale; Fundacja DKMS Poland is its Polish affiliate.

Direct peers

• Anthony Nolan: UK-based charity running one of the world's first bone marrow donor registries. Same mission (recruit, HLA-type, match, support patients), similar funding model (donations, legacies, corporate partnerships), and similar reliance on community-organized donor drives. Useful UK/middle-Europe comparable.
• Gift of Life Marrow Registry: US-based volunteer bone marrow and blood stem cell donor registry founded to address ethnic underrepresentation in donor pools. Same operating model as DKMS Poland; particularly comparable in mission-driven, donor-funded structure.
• National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) / Be The Match: The largest bone marrow donor registry in the world (US-based). Directly comparable model: recruits registered donors, conducts HLA typing, coordinates matches, and supports patients through transplant. Operates at vastly greater scale but uses the same operating playbook as Fundacja DKMS Poland.

Emerging players

• Swiss Blood Stem Cells (SBSC): Smaller European stem cell donor registry affiliated with Swiss Blood Transfusion services. Comparable mission and HLA-typing-led model; smaller scale with similar focus on international matching connectivity via BMDW.

Regional players

• Poltransplant (Krajowy Ośrodek Transplantacji - KOT): Polish national transplant coordination body. Operates the Polish national bone marrow donor registry (Centralny Rejestr Niespokrewnionych Potencjalnych Dawców Szpiku) with which DKMS shares donor data. Closest domestic comparable but state-run and focused on coordination rather than fundraising.
• Canadian Blood Services Stem Cell Registry: Canadian national stem cell registry operated by the country's blood operator. Comparable as a national-scale registry coordinating recruitment and matching, though funded through a hybrid public/health-system model rather than donations.

Others

• Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW): International collaborative registry that aggregates donor data from national registries including DKMS affiliates. Not a fundraising entity but the global matching backbone that makes DKMS's international connectivity productive. Comparable as a peer in the matching/registry layer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@dkms
• Facebookfacebook.com/fundacja.dkms.polska
• Instagraminstagram.com/dkms_pl
• TikToktiktok.com/@dkms
• Xx.com/DKMS_PL
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fundacja-dkms

Compliance3 records

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