Vitality Project
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Our overarching mission is to provide advocacy, education, and collaboration to improve and promote opitmal health in our community. Current siginificant activities include coordinating local activities to prevent and end homlessness and addressing the impact of poverty.
- Income
- $1.1 million
- Spending
- $4.5 million
- Spent on programs
- 100%
- Reserves
- 26.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- government grants, 57%
- Employees
- 4
- Volunteers
- 4
- Highest pay
- $113,389, ceo
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 70 out of 100. Higher than 53% of charities in its peer group (mental health, $1m to $10m).
Reserves
35 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 26.8 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
0 of 15Spending exceeded income by 324% of income.
Income trend
0 of 15Income fell 93% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 15100% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Good: 73 out of 100. Higher than 25% of charities in its peer group (mental health, $1m to $10m).
Independent board
18 of 254 of 4 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
Independent check of accounts
0 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $4.2 million spent. Homeless Response System Funding and Grants Management In 2025, The Vitality Project (TVP) supported 16 distinct projects serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, operated by six local providers. Each of these projects provided services under one of the following project types: Street Outreach, Day Shelter, Overnight Shelter, Transitional Housing, and Rapid Rehousing. In some cases, funding received from TVP was a projects sole funding, but in most cases, TVP funding made up only part of the projects overall budget. Projects supported fully or partially through funding from TVP served over 1350 unduplicated individuals in 2025, all of whom were provided with basic needs services to improve and protect their health and safety, case management and other stabilization services to support their journeys to self-sufficiency and permanent housing, and over 350 of the individuals served accessed temporary and/or permanent housing.
- $138,668 spent. Homeless Response System Planning and Coordination TVP serves as the CoC Lead and Administrative Entity for the Tehama County Continuum of Care (Tehama CoC), a collaborative of service providers, units of local government, community leaders and other stakeholders working together to address homelessness in Tehama County. Tehama CoC and its member organizations are responsible for developing and maintaining the local system for addressing homelessness, including conducting strategic planning activities, which serve to ensure cohesive operation of the local system, to prevent duplication of services and maintain responsible stewardship of resources. In 2025, TVP led a comprehensive effort to update the Tehama County 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, coordinated development of a Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Action Plan, the structure of which complied with state funder requirements, and fostered partnerships between CoC member organizations.
- $134,195 spent. Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and Coordinated Entry System (CES) Administration TVP serves as the HMIS Lead Agency for Tehama CoC and its member organizations that offer services to people experiencing and at risk of homelessness whose funders require participation in local HMIS, a community-wide shared databased through which people served and services provided are tracked at the project- and system-level, and/or CES, a related database through which referrals to services and prioritization for services is conducted. HMIS- and CES-participating agencies are made up of both providers who receive funding through TVP and those whose support comes from other sources. HMIS and CES participation, in addition to meeting various funder requirements, benefits participating projects through providing access to valuable project- and system-level data that informs and improves program design, through ensuring fair and equitable access to services for all.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since October 2016.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
Could it be confused with another charity? Worth knowing.
A much larger organization has a similar name: Project Hospitality Inc (Staten Island, NY), EIN 13-3234441. If that is the one you meant, check the EIN before giving.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
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