NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM
500 N 5th St, Minneapolis, MN 554011206 www.bethematch.org

---

Organizations Filed Purposes: FOR PATIENTS WITH BLOOD CANCERS LIKE LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA, OR OTHER LIFE-THREATENING BLOOD DISORDERS, THERE IS HOPE FOR A CURE THROUGH MARROW TRANSPLANTATION. THE FIRST STEP IS TO FIND A MATCHED DONOR, BUT 70% PERCENT OF PATIENTS DO NOT HAVE A SUITABLY MATCHED DONOR IN THEIR FAMILY AND DEPEND ON OUR BE THE MATCH REGISTRY TO FIND A MARROW DONOR. WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUR CONTRIBUTORS, EACH YEAR WE: - FACILITATE MORE MARROW AND CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS - GROW AND DIVERSIFY THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND MOST DIVERSE DONOR REGISTRY - SUPPORT PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER TRANSPLANT - CONDUCT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TO EXPAND TREATMENT AND IMPROVE OUTCOMES - ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN OUR LIFE-SAVING MISSION. AS THE WORLD'S LEADING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON SAVING LIVES THROUGH CELLULAR THERAPY, BE THE MATCH CONTINUES TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO TRANSPLANT BY LEADING EFFORTS TO REMOVE BARRIERS TO TREATMENT AND STRENGTHEN OUR ABILITY TO MEET THE GROWING NEED. THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY OF

WE SAVE LIVES THROUGH CELLULAR THERAPY.

TRANSPLANT - IN 1987, THE FOUNDERS OF NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM (NMDP) MADE A COMMITMENT TO INCREASE ACCESS TO TRANSPLANTS AND TO FIND PEOPLE WILLING TO DONATE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH TO EXTEND AND IMPROVE LIVES. NMDP'S MISSION STATEMENT - "WE SAVE LIVES THROUGH CELLULAR THERAPY" - CAPTURES AND COMMUNICATES THE REASON FOR NMDP'S EXISTENCE. EACH YEAR, NMDP INCURS PROGRAM MEDICAL EXPENSES RELATED TO MATCHING UNRELATED DONORS WITH PATIENTS. IN FISCAL YEAR 2019, MORE THAN 16,100 U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL SEARCHES OF THE BE THE MATCH REGISTRY WERE CONDUCTED ON BEHALF OF PATIENTS SEEKING A MATCHING DONOR OR CORD BLOOD UNIT. 6,553 PATIENTS WENT ON TO RECEIVE A TRANSPLANT. SINCE BEGINNING OPERATIONS, NMDP HAS FACILITATED MORE THAN 100,000 MARROW AND CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS FOR PATIENTS.

RECRUITMENT - THE BE THE MATCH REGISTRY PROVIDES THE MOST DIVERSE LISTING OF POTENTIAL DONORS AND CORD BLOOD UNITS IN THE WORLD. WITH 22 MILLION POTENTIAL DONORS AND 300,000 CORD BLOOD UNITS, OUR GROWING REGISTRY IS HELPING PATIENTS GET THE TRANSPLANT THEY NEED. IN FISCAL YEAR 2019, OVER 305,000 NEW POTENTIAL DONORS WERE ADDED TO THE BE THE MATCH REGISTRY. ALTHOUGH, THERE ARE MILLIONS ON THE REGISTRY, PATIENTS SOMETIMES STILL CAN NOT FIND A MATCH. THIS IS DUE IN PART TO THE PATIENT'S ETHNIC BACKGROUND. ON AVERAGE, A PATIENT'S LIKELIHOOD OF FINDING A MATCH ON THE BE THE MATCH REGISTRY RANGES FROM 19% TO 80% DEPENDING ON THE ETHNIC BACKGROUND. SOME ETHNIC GROUPS HAVE MORE COMPLEX TISSUE TYPES THAN OTHERS, SO A PERSON'S BEST CHANCE OF FINDING A DONOR IS WITH SOMEONE OF THE SAME ETHNIC BACKGROUND. THE IMPORTANCE OF INCREASING DIVERSITY ON THE REGISTRY IS AN ORGANIZATION GOAL AND PRIORITY AT BE THE MATCH.

RESEARCH - BE THE MATCH CONDUCTS RESEARCH THROUGH THE CIBMTR (CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANT RESEARCH), A COMBINED RESEARCH PROGRAM OF NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM AND THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN. THE CIBMTR FACILITATES CRITICAL, CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH THAT HAS LED TO INCREASED SURVIVAL AND AN ENRICHED QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOUSANDS OF PATIENTS WORLDWIDE. NMDP FACILITATES EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC SERVICES FOR IMPROVING OUTCOMES THROUGH CLINICAL RESEARCH. THIS WORK INCLUDES ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING AN EXTENSIVE DATABASE FOR RESEARCHERS, CONDUCTING OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES, AND PLANNING AND FACILITATING CLINICAL TRIALS THAT ASSESS TRENDS AND THERAPIES. DURING FISCAL YEAR 2019, APPROXIMATELY $44 MILLION WAS USED TO FUND RESEARCH PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE THE MARROW DONATION PROCESS AND ADVANCE TRANSPLANT SCIENCE.

---

---

Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (public 990 form dataset) from: https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202001709349301555_public.xml