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VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC

EIN 87-0483446 MISSOULA, MT

Revenue 2025
$10,218,738
Expenses 2025
$7,203,720

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

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
30 FORT MISSOULA RD

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).

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.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $10,218,738
    Expenses
    $7,203,720
    Contributions
    $9,594,366
    Grants paid
    $79,699
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,067,558
    Expenses
    $2,370,250
    Contributions
    $4,424,173
    Grants paid
    $70,400
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,685,566
    Expenses
    $2,219,074
    Contributions
    $6,329,416
    Grants paid
    $51,541
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,489,727
    Expenses
    $2,374,135
    Contributions
    $5,362,254
    Grants paid
    $75,500

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • KODIAK CAKES LLC

    $115,510 in sales

    2022 Commercial Coventurer

    $115,510 to charity

  • CONOPCO INC. D/B/A UNILEVER ITSELF AND ACTING THROUGH ITS SUBSIDIARIES

    $48,204 in sales

    2022 Commercial Coventurer

    $48,204 to charity

  • CONOPCO INC. D/B/A UNILEVER ITSELF AND ACTING THROUGH ITS SUBSIDIARIES

    $113,005 in sales

    2021 Commercial Coventurer

    $56,503 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.