Vilicus Training Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473305574
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Havre, MT, USA
Phone
4063942469
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Agricultural Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,582
Expenses
$50,884
Assets
$84,748
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNA JONES-CRABREE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • ANNA JONES-CRABREE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • EMMA BRODERICK (TREASURER)
  • CLARE DONAHUE (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 organization's purpose is to inspire significant increases in the scope and scale of organic and biodynamic land management across the northern great plains and areas of similar climate. Our mission is to reimagine the relationship between agriculture, economics, and ecology to cultivate transformational change that enables life to thrive on the northern great plains.

What it reported doing in 2025

Economics - we build the economic soil around farmers and farms. We focus on modeling, piloting, and building ways to focus on supporting farmer livelihoods. We believe that healthy ecology is an outcome of thriving farms.we focus on three strategic initiatives: (1) farmers and farms need new ways of equitably sharing risk with the rest of the food system, (2) being rewarded for stewardship and (3) enjoying a livelihood that doesn't require working an off-farm job or side gig to fund the farm.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72

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: -4.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.