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← VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$10,218,738
Total expenses
$7,203,720
Contributions and grants received
$9,594,366
Grants paid
$79,699
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$6,409,454
Management and general expenses
$431,310
Fundraising expenses
$362,956
Program service expenses (Part III)
$6,409,454

Program services were 89.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • KEN HICK

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • MATTHEW DUSEK

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • THERESA YOUNG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TIM POLICH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    9

  • DALE BECKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DOUGLAS CHADWICK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SCOTT BIRMINGHAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • THOMAS FEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN HECHTEL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JO LOWE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAUREEN MAYER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MEGGEN ARTHUR-WILSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHERI COOLEY-HICK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • DANIELLE FEIDLER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SOU BARRETT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • RYAN LUTEY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $234,223
    From this org
    $206,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,373
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,850
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,288
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,085
    Filer's total
    $234,223

  • SHANNON DRYE

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $124,709
    From this org
    $116,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,159
    Hours/week
    40

  • KIMBERLY DAVITT

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $124,709
    From this org
    $110,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,159
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S COMPENSATION IS REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES USING CURRENT COMPENSATION SURVEY INFORMATION FROM THE LAND TRUST ALLIANCE AND CONSIDERATION OF FORM 990 RETURNS FROM SIMILARLY SITUATED ORGANIZATIONS.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
10 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202641979349300524

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