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Explore our 2025 annual report
Indiana Donor Registry
Donor Registration Partners
Youth Education Program
National Donate Life Month
2025 Finances
Meet Our Heroes

For Donate Life Indiana, 2022 was a year of growth and excitement. We pursued new avenues for Hoosiers to say “yes” to donation, which we know is key to increasing the number of registered donors. Education also remained a top priority as we sought to teach more Hoosiers the importance of becoming organ donors.

On behalf of Donate Life Indiana, we are proud to share our accomplishments in 2022 and look forward to continued donation and transplantation education in 2023.

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2025 Highlights

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Hoosiers said “yes” to donation
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youth and educators reached during presentations and events.
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was donated to Donate Life Indiana during BMV transactions.
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Indiana Donor Registry

In 2025, Donate Life Indiana continued to enhance the Indiana donor registry. This included additional reporting functionality and improved search capabilities.

The Indiana Donor Registry houses all donation decisions made in the state of Indiana, whereas the National Donor Registry houses decisions made via Donate Life America.

In 2025, Donate Life Indiana continued to enhance the Indiana donor registry. This included additional reporting functionality and improved search capabilities.

Donor Registration Partners

Our partners not only help us raise awareness of organ, tissue and eye donation, they also help us raise the number of registrations each year. We thank these partners for continuing to save lives by helping Hoosiers sign up to be organ, tissue and eye donors every day.

Bureau of Motor Vehicles
At the heart of donor registrations lies the BMV. Whether it’s online, at a kiosk or in person, the BMV and their staff are integral to the donation process, making a life-saving impact every day. In 2025, we continued the spirit of collaboration and provided BMV staff members with Donate Life Indiana apparel. This token of appreciation not only recognized their essential role in the donation process but also aimed to elevate our brand presence at the very moment when individuals contemplate the life-saving act of donation.
Department of Natural Resources
Since launching in 2021, nearly 35,000 “yes” donation decisions have been made via the Department of Natural Resources’ hunting, fishing and trapping licenses. Their commitment goes beyond the registry as they invite Donate Life Indiana to participate in prominent events — including large events like the Indiana Boat, Sport and Travel Show — at no cost. This collaborative outreach ensures we reach Hoosiers who will likely purchase hunting, fishing or trapping licenses, creating a meaningful impact on donation education.
Professional Licensing Agency
Since launching in 2024, more than 125,000 “yes” donation decisions have been made via the Professional Licensing Agency. The number of individuals making the donation decision via this agency fluctuates greatly year-over-year based on when certain professional credentials are up for renewal as some have many more holders than others. More than 20% of Indiana’s workforce apply for professional licenses, so this partnership will undoubtedly continue to increase the number of Hoosiers who sign up to give the gift of life.

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Youth Education Program

Donate Life Indiana’s youth education program focuses on reaching Hoosiers who are making timely donation decisions. The team works tirelessly to educate students before they go to the BMV to get an ID, learner’s permit or driver’s license and are asked the important question, “Do you want to be an organ and tissue donor?” Learn more about our youth education program here. 

Educating Indiana Students in the Classroom

In 2025, Donate Life Indiana completed 897 classroom presentations and educated 32,572 students through our youth education program in schools alone. That’s 26% more students educated in the classroom setting compared to 2024.

We continued our incentivized Back to School booking campaign where we offered educators a free Donate Life Indiana canvas tote for booking a presentation within the deadline. We also offered a referral incentive for our current educator partners. As a result, we saw an increase of 47% in the number of educators participating in the incentive campaign.

Reaching Indiana Youth in the Community

Donate Life Indiana continued to pursue partnerships with youth-focused organizations offering the opportunity for engagement outside of the classroom.

In 2025, we placed an emphasis on attending Back to School events throughout the state. While there, we provided attendees with school-related supplies such as pencils, folders and notebooks to ensure the students were set up for success going into the new school year. This approach of meeting the community where they are was well-received and opened the door to amazing donation conversations.

SODA Chapters Add to Outreach

2025 saw the addition of four new Student Organ Donation Advocates chapters. These high school and college groups help raise awareness and increase donor registrations by signing up new organ and tissue donors outside of the classroom. We now have 20 SODA chapters in Indiana, making us the state with the highest number of chapters. In 2025, our SODA chapters encouraged 164 people to say “yes” to donation and helped educate another 16,962 people about donation.

National Donate Life Month

Every April, we celebrate National Donate Life Month in multiple ways. This year, we ran a month-long social media campaign, distributed Donate Life standard-size and garden-size flags to businesses across the state for display during the month, provided content and displays to community partners and more.  

Team Indiana

2025 was an off year for the Transplant Games of America so Donate Life Indiana spent time recruiting new team members. At the end of 2025, Team Indiana’s continued growth positioned the team to bring its largest group of athletes and supporters to the 2026 Games in Denver.

2025 Finances

Monetary donations in support of Donate Life Indiana help fund our outreach and education efforts around the need for organ, tissue and eye donors. All figures are calculated using accrual-based accounting.

License Plate Revenue

Donate Life Indiana receives $25 for each specialty license plate sold by the BMV.

In 2021, Donate Life Indiana received approval to continue offering the specialty license plate through 2031.

BMV Donation Revnue

During transactions at the BMV (online or in-person), individuals are asked if they would like to donate $1 or more to support Donate Life Indiana.

Miscellaneous Donation Revenue

This includes Facebook fundraisers, memorial donations, the online Donate Life Indiana store and public donations.

Taytum Geyman
Recipient
“Be a donor, because it saved my life and others.”
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Allan Halliburton
Recipient
“I’ll help anyone who crosses my path.”
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Kira & Cliff
Living Donor & Recipient
"It's not about just donating, you can do something to help a stranger."
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