VIP Foundation
Legal name: Vip Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861438875
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 602.430.4905
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,232
- Expenses
- $156,218
- Assets
- $1,252,559
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES D BARBOUR II (President)
- KEITH TEEGARDIN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JAMES D BARBOUR II (President)
- KEITH TEEGARDIN (Vice President)
- MICHAEL METZ (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The VIP Foundation was founded for the passionate purpose of helping those less fortunate in many critically needed areas – always with HEART … Hope, Embracing, Achieving, Raising ($), and Thriving.
What it reported doing in 2025
Dedicated to funding people, groups, organizations, and programs that address issues and improve the lives of others. The Foundation facilitates the growth and effectiveness of philanthropic contributions and expands the culture of giving to meet the needs of the community under the following categories: QUALITY OF LIFE - FACILITATE TO SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SPACES, PARKS, TRAILS, THE OUTDOORS, ANIMAL WELFARE, CHILDREN'S ISSUES, AND EDUCATION.HEALTH & WELLNESS - FACILITATE TO SUPPORT FOR FOOD ASSISTANCE, NUTRITION, HEALTH-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS, WELLNESS, FITNESS, DISEASE PREVENTION AND RESEARCH, AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HEALTH EMERGENCIES.COLLABORATION - FACILITATE TO SUPPORT FOR CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS, THE MILITARY, VETERANS, AND OTHER NON-PROFITS WITH A SHARED MISSION.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 34
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 17.5%; rating input score 17; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 8.3%; rating input score 8; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -129%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.02; 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: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -82.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 8/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.