Vitalism International Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933821753
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Claymont, DE, USA
- Phone
- 6177103569
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $653,234
- Expenses
- $653,332
- Assets
- $8,096
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM GRIES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ADAM GRIES (PRESIDENT): $73,849 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission is to help achieve unlimited healthy lifespans for all through science. Vitalism international foundation will promote its mission by: coordinating individuals and fostering a community that promotes the mission and especially among any specific segments of the population that are especially vulnerable to the cumulative effect of aging in daily life but are underserved; by reviewing and, where appropriate, offering certification to organizations in alignment with applicant's goals, by encouraging social connection within communities via events or avenues of communication; by conducting research on how to maximally accelerate efforts and resource allocation to solve aging at the root; by conducting such political activity as is permitted under the code, and by producing educational resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organizing for community benefit - vitalist bay longevity zone and conference series. In 2024, we included two educational conferences, the longevity state conference (95 attendees) and the tokyo longevity summit (200 attendees) to unite scientists, funders, and policy leaders around aging reversal and long-term human flourishing. These conferences produced content to promote education regarding the ability and strategies to achieve unlimited healthy lifespans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 138.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 76% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $609K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.