GI Nutrition Foundation

Legal name: Gi Nutrition Foundation Formerly Nutritional Therapy for Ibd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834024202
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mt Pleasant, SC, USA
Phone
8433644631
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Specifically Named Diseases

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$173,750
Expenses
$100,970
Assets
$162,104
Liabilities
$1,525

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • KIM BEALL (MANAGING DIRECTOR)
  • BRIDGETTE BLANKENSHIP (BOARD MEMBER)
  • ANTHONY BEALL (BOARD CHAIRMAN)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The GI Nutrition Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives and health outcomes of those living with GI conditions, including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, IBS, celiac disease, and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), through evidence-based nutrition. We empower patients and clinicians with credible, practical nutrition education and resources.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community engagement, supportive programs, and collaborative initiatives. The organization strengthened engagement with the ibd community through virtual and in-person education, connection, and support initiatives. This included the launch of the ibd nutrition community, a space for people living with ibd and caregivers to connect, share experiences, and learn together, as well as topic-focused workshops addressing practical challenges such as managing food and nutrition in daily life. In addition, the organization collaborated with international partners and clinicians to promote the integration of nutrition into broader care discussions, supporting coordination between nutrition and medical treatment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 41.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 38% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.