New York · Nonprofit
VITAL STRATEGIES INC
VITAL STRATEGIES INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $681,052,407 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($241,224,690). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $132M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $681M
- Net assets
- $91M
What Vital Strategies Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to work in partnership to reimagine evidence-based, locally driven policies and practices to advance public health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Data for health programs:- under civil registration and vital statistics (crvs) vital strategies continued its work in ensuring that a greater number of birth and death records are counted as part of its public health systems improvement objective. Across the three focus regions of africa, asia and latin america $5,218,000 annual and cumulative death records were improved or newly counted in countries receiving initiative support, up from $3,977,000 in 2023. Similar positive progress was achieved with birth records which increased to 6,339,000 in 2024 from 5,425,000 in 2023. 676 common, critical path process milestones were reported in the 24 two-year country work plans. Of these, 56% (379) completed and achieved institutionalization, and 27% (180) were deferred to the next phase. Successes were also achieved across multiple interventions. Legal and regulatory reviews were completed and recommendations produced in bolivia, ethiopia, india rajasthan, and kenya, while recommendations from reviews completed in the previous phase were produced for indonesia while the legal review process is ongoing in mozambique and morocco. Research on the barriers and facilitators to female death…
$21,549,707 spentof which $9,385,363 as grants23% of program spendingOpioid overdose prevention program:vital strategies continued its work as part of the opioid overdose prevention program in 2024, helping to implement 28 legislative, regulatory, administrative action and protocol changes in four of our seven focus states, distributed more than 1.8m naloxone kits through state-run naloxone portals, launched nine state and national media campaigns and developed 12 toolkits and technical guidance products since inception. Specific 2024 achievements across our seven focus states are as follows: - kentucky: - naloxone access - helped kentucky launch their new naloxone website and ordering portal at findnaloxonenowky, including release of a new animated training video - anti-criminalization - kentucky c4-funded defensive lobbying project achieved changes to hb5 to somewhat mitigate harmful impact and is working with courts to establish monitoring plan to help convey impact of hb5. - michigan: - opioid settlements - michigan association of counties engaged with 61 of the 83 counties and completed 244 technical assistance requests over two years - community mobilization - held project overview and future planning convenings in harrisburg pa with 70+…
$18,282,324 spentof which $7,482,198 as grants19% of program spendingTobacco control programs:vital strategies achieved the following accomplishments as part of the initiative to reduce tobacco use in 2024: - in 2024, the vital strategies tobacco control division contributed to policy development, capacity building and sustainability efforts across the 10 initiative priority countries, and several non-priority countries. In addition, significant work continued and grew under the global implementation program, the tobacco industry interference grants program and the global cessation program. - in 2024, vital tcd launched alongside rounds 35 and 36 of the bi grants program. 251 applications were received. The team negotiated and signed 66 grants in 14 countries. - in 2024, the vital tcd stop team successfully executed the third round of the tobacco industry interference (tii) grants program, with a call for proposals open alongside round 35 of the bi grants program. The team received 84 applications and finalized nine grants in 2024. Throughout the year, tii sub-grantees executed several actions to expose and counter ti activities around the world including documenting industry allies' activities, effectively counter ti attempts to undermine tobacco…
$17,116,985 spentof which $6,675,363 as grants18% of program spendingOther programs include road safety, partnership for healthy cities, obesity prevention & food policy, reset alcohol, and more.
$38,665,376 spentof which $18,316,811 as grants40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $95,614,392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $142M to $96M (−33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of VITAL STRATEGIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (98% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Bruce Mandell
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $15M → $59M.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of VITAL STRATEGIES INC’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
VITAL STRATEGIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund VITAL STRATEGIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 76% · 2020 36% · 2021 62% · 2022 75% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of VITAL STRATEGIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of VITAL STRATEGIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $306M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $375M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
VITAL STRATEGIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 97 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 97 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding VITAL STRATEGIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.0M on record.
- Agency for International Development$28.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like VITAL STRATEGIES INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Fonds de Dotation Vital Strategies · exempt
- Vital Strategies India Services Private Limited · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VITAL STRATEGIES INC: 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 VITAL STRATEGIES INC?
- VITAL STRATEGIES INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $681,052,407 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($241,224,690). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VITAL STRATEGIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $681,052,407 in grants to VITAL STRATEGIES INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VITAL STRATEGIES INC?
- THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $241,224,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VITAL STRATEGIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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