Washington · Nonprofit
VITAL TALK
VITAL TALK (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,146,615 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($525,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $720k
What Vital Talk does
Mission
To integrate evidence-based serious illness communication skills intohealthcare practice through an engaged network of trained faculty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coaching and other ongoing support to learners who have completed one of our courses.
$868,310 spent$59,310 earned by the program49% of program spendingVirtual communication coursesthese courses are both primary communication courses and train-the-trainer courses that happen virtually. Learners and faculty meet live virtually to complete training. We taught 627 learners virtually in 2025.
$542,119 spentof which $22,137 as grants$1,345,193 earned by the program31% of program spendingFace to face communication coursesthese courses are two-session cohorts that meet in person to teach learners how to teach our primary communication course (train-the-trainer courses). We taught 134 people in live courses who will go on to teach the primary communication course in their home institution and in Vital Talk hosted courses.
$267,932 spent$132,446 earned by the program15% of program spendingOnline communications coursesthese are self-paced, fully online courses that learners take at their convenience. They teach the same skills as the primary communication course in smaller componants, as well as presenting material for specific specialties or clinician. We taught 481 learners asynchronously in 2025.
$91,091 spent$228,078 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,769,452.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.7M to $1.2M (−27%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of VITAL TALK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Lynsey Seabrook
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $277k → $25k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 TALK’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 TALK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
VITAL TALK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TALK is better cushioned than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VITAL TALK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $143k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$86k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$57k
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 TALK
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VITAL TALK: 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 TALK?
- VITAL TALK (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,146,615 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($525,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VITAL TALK have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,146,615 in grants to VITAL TALK, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VITAL TALK?
- STUPSKI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VITAL TALK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing