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VITAL CXNS INC

EIN 30-1255787 BOSTON, MA

Revenue 2025
$1,097,784
Expenses 2025
$1,050,122

Program services were 62.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E70
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 320421

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

WE PARTNER WITH COMMUNITIES TO CO-CREATE A MORE ACCESSIBLE, EFFECTIVE, AND EQUITABLE HEALTH ECOSYSTEM THROUGH CONVENING CROSS-SECTOR STAKEHOLDERS, LEVERAGING CRITICAL RESOURCES, AND INVESTING IN DATA-DRIVEN, LOCALLY-SUSTAINED COMMUNITY HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO CO-CREATE A MORE ACCESSIBLE, EFFECTIVE AND EQUITABLE HEALTH ECOSYSTEM.

  • VITAL CXNS IS DEDICATED TO TRANSFORMING THE INEQUITABLE SYSTEMS THAT CONTINUE TO DRIVE HEALTH INEQUITIES IN BOSTON, PARTICULARLY WITHIN BLACK, INDIGENOUS, PEOPLE OF COLOR AND LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES. OUR WORK SPANS A RANGE OF COMMUNITY-IDENTIFIED PRIORITIES INCLUDING FOOD ACCESS, COMMUNITY-BASED CARE, MENTAL WELLNESS, AND MATERNAL HEALTH. OUR APPROACH IS ROOTED IN OUR NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED COMMUNITY-LED SYSTEMS CHANGE MODEL, WHICH COMBINES COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP WITH SYSTEMS CHANGE STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS ROOT CAUSES WHILE BUILDING LASTING COMMUNITY CAPACITY FOR TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT.

    Expenses $654,000 · Grants $152,791 · Revenue $1,440

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JAMES HOUGHTON

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SETH LAWRY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER VALENZUELA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEXANDRA SCHWEITZER

    SECRETARY/CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICH JOSEPH

    CO-FOUNDER & CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • WILLIAM THORNDIKE JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIANA COHEN

    CO-FOUNDER & DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $135,731
    From this org
    $135,731
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ARIEL CHILDS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $173,497
    From this org
    $154,311
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,186
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,311
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,186
    Filer's total
    $173,497

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,097,784
    Expenses
    $1,050,122
    Contributions
    $1,096,344
    Grants paid
    $152,791
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $866,710
    Expenses
    $676,341
    Contributions
    $827,643
    Grants paid
    $63,505
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $626,297
    Expenses
    $422,438
    Contributions
    $607,540
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $510,885
    Expenses
    $376,221
    Contributions
    $486,693
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $694,211
    Expenses
    $342,689
    Contributions
    $694,211
    Grants paid
    $115

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $172,081
    Expenses
    $198,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,932

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.