The Trauma Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842641672
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Bozeman, MT, USA
Phone
7604926444
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Private Independent Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,587
Expenses
$80,639
Assets
$363,204

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Chris Rutgers (Executive Dir.)
  • Matt D'Arrigo (Treasurer)
  • David Marsh (Secretary)

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

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

Overview

Mission

The Trauma Foundations mission is to support the healing of unresolved trauma for individuals, families, and communities. The Trauma Foundation is focused on making this work more accessible by developing and directly supporting programs, initiatives, and research focused on trauma recovery.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, we sponsored workshops and trainings for 20 organizations for over 750 individuals to help social service professionals and volunteers to develop the skills to support individuals struggling with chronic symptoms of unresolved trauma. Additionally, we funded multiple scholarships to support qualified clinicians to receive advanced trauma support training and certifications and funded direct service trauma treatment for under resourced individuals. We also developed and piloted a new PHP/IOP mental health intervention for community health organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.5; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.