Montana · Nonprofit
VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA
VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,200 to it, the largest being The High Stakes Foundation ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Vibrant Lives of Montana does
Mission
Empowering community wellness through holistic lifestyle; mind-body-spirit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Vibrant Lives of Montana continued to nurture the well-being of our community through accessible wellness programming, compassionate mental health services, and meaningful community education. Throughout the year, our team of up to four counselors provided an astonishing 1,012+ individual counseling sessions to 104+ clients, including those utilizing sliding-scale fees. Thus, supporting individuals on their journeys toward healing, self-awareness, and emotional well-being. Our monthly together: grief group gatherings held space for 44+ participants to process loss and find connection through shared experiences. We offered approximately 429 drop-in yoga and meditation classes welcoming 1348+ individuals seeking movement, mindfulness, and community, alongside weekly silent meditation sessions and seasonal 40-day meditation challenges that inspired 41+ participants per season the opportunity to deepen their inner practice. Our monthly soul sunday gatherings (formerly soul sunday kirtan) met 17+ times, bringing together 72+ participants for fellowship, music, and reflection, while our women's consciousness book club gathered 8+ times with 20+ participants exploring…
$160,533 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $160,533.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $11k to $41k (+267%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
32% of VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Melainya Ryan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
From the IRS filings of VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
60% of VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA?
- VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,200 to it, the largest being The High Stakes Foundation ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,200 in grants to VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA?
- The High Stakes Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIBRANT LIVES OF MONTANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing