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Better Earth Foundation for Integrative Health

Help bring responsible integrative care within reach for underserved communities.

Better Earth Foundation is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity building a $1,000,000 founding philanthropic campaign to expand community access, patient support, practitioner scholarship pathways, and outcomes learning rooted in responsible coordinated care. Sponsored access, scholarships, grant activity, and research support will depend on donor commitments, board-approved programs, and operational readiness.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity EIN 42-2322827 · IRS determination letter dated May 29, 2026 · Public charity status under IRC Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) · Effective exemption date April 28, 2026 · Contributions listed as deductible. View IRS determination letter.

At a glance for donors

A concrete way to fund access, scholarships, and community care.

Review giving options
$1,000,000Founding campaign target for access, education, scholarships, and outcomes learning.
501(c)(3)IRS-recognized public charity with determination letter available for donor review.
6 prioritiesSubsidies, outreach, scholarships, outcomes learning, administration, and matching funds.
Multiple pathwaysDAF recommendations, checks, pledges, grants, corporate gifts, and major-gift conversations.

A note for founding donors

The foundation exists because access cannot depend only on who can pay privately.

InnerVital is building a clinic and operating model, but many of the people who could benefit from supportive integrative care will still face cost, transportation, trust, scheduling, and care-navigation barriers. Better Earth Foundation gives mission-aligned donors a governed way to help close that gap.

The near-term work is intentionally practical: subsidized access, community education, practitioner scholarships, outcomes learning, and responsible program development as donor commitments and board-approved programs come together.

Founding Health Access Campaign

A founding campaign with a clear first use of funds.

Many people who could benefit from supportive, coordinated care never reach it because cost, insurance limits, transportation, trust, language, work schedules, and care-navigation barriers stand in the way. Better Earth Foundation exists to help close that gap with charitable funding that is purposeful, governed, and measurable.

The Founding Health Access Campaign invites family offices, donor-advised funds, private foundations, corporate partners, and individual donors to help build a disciplined philanthropic platform for community access, education, scholarships, and learning.

$1M Founding campaign target

Charitable funding for subsidized access, community education, practitioner scholarships, outcomes learning, grant readiness, and mission-aligned partnerships serving underserved communities.

Campaign progress reporting will be published as documented founding commitments are confirmed.

The invitation

Help people reach care that private payment alone would leave out.

A founding gift can underwrite care access, community education, and practitioner readiness in a way that honors dignity, patient choice, cultural context, safety, and collaboration with conventional care.

Better Earth Foundation is built for donors who want more than a one-time transaction. The foundation is organizing a charitable platform that can document what was funded, who was reached, what barriers were reduced, and what was learned.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3)Board-approved programsDonor-funded access depends on commitments and operations
Community access conversation supported by Better Earth Foundation
Founding philanthropy can reduce access barriers while preserving trust, choice, and dignity.

For family offices and major donors

What donors should be able to see clearly.

Better Earth Foundation gives donors a focused way to support underserved communities through charitable programs that can be planned, documented, and evaluated without overpromising clinical outcomes.

  • IRS-recognized public charity status with EIN and determination letter available for donor diligence.
  • A named $1,000,000 founding campaign with defined funding priorities and gift levels.
  • Giving options for donor-advised funds, checks, pledges, grants, corporate gifts, and major gifts.
  • Charitable-use guardrails, restricted-gift review, privacy-conscious reporting, and board oversight.
  • Reporting focused on access, utilization, subsidies deployed, education delivered, scholarship activity, and partner learning.

Donor diligence snapshot

Legal name
Better Earth Foundation for Integrative Health, Inc.
EIN
42-2322827
IRS status
501(c)(3) public charity; contributions listed as deductible.
Campaign
$1,000,000 Founding Health Access Campaign.
Major donor and foundation partnership discussion
Major gifts can build durable access infrastructure, not just one-time activity.

What your gift can make possible

Six practical ways founding gifts can move the mission.

01Access

Subsidized community care

Help reduce cost barriers for eligible people through board-approved charitable access programs, community clinic days, group education, and navigation support.

02Workforce

Practitioner scholarships

Support qualified practitioners and students preparing for community, institutional, and hospital-adjacent work with stronger documentation and safety expectations.

03Education

Community education

Bring practical, accessible education on stress, sleep, food patterns, self-care routines, and appropriate referral routes to families and community partners.

04Resilience

Recovery and resilience support

Support appropriate stress-regulation and self-care education in collaboration with recovery, behavioral-health, social-service, and community organizations.

05Learning

Outcomes learning

Underwrite privacy-conscious reporting, patient-reported support measures, attendance tracking, partner feedback, and practical program evaluation.

06Partners

Mission-aligned partnerships

Help launch collaborations with hospitals, FQHCs, nonprofits, schools, faith organizations, senior-serving groups, and neighborhood-based partners.

Founding gift levels

Choose the gift level that fits your philanthropy.

Every founding gift helps establish Better Earth Foundation's first charitable access platform. Larger gifts may be structured as unrestricted support, restricted campaign gifts, documented pledges, donor-advised fund recommendations, private foundation grants, or corporate community-benefit support.

$250,000Founding Benefactor
$100,000Community Health Access Sponsor
$50,000Patient Care Fund Sponsor
$25,000Founding Circle
$10,000Leadership Donor
$5,000Community Supporter

Ways to give

Give through the channel that fits your philanthropy.

Better Earth Foundation can support several common charitable giving pathways. Donors may give or begin a gift discussion through donor-advised fund recommendation, check, pledge, grant, corporate gift, wire/ACH transfer, or another board-reviewed charitable contribution structure.

Donor-advised funds

Recommend a grant to Better Earth Foundation for Integrative Health, Inc. · EIN 42-2322827.

Checks and pledges

Checks may be payable to Better Earth Foundation for Integrative Health, Inc. Multi-year pledges can be documented in writing.

Major gifts and grants

Family offices, private foundations, and corporate partners may request a donor briefing, campaign budget, and restricted-gift discussion.

Wire, ACH, or non-cash gifts

Transfer and non-cash gift conversations can begin after donor identity, gift purpose, documentation needs, and board-review requirements are confirmed.

Better Earth Foundation community education and outreach
Education is part of access: clear information helps communities use care more wisely.

Illustrative first campaign budget

A transparent framework for the founding campaign.

Funding priorityIllustrative allocationPurpose
Community care subsidies$350,000Subsidized visits, community clinic days, group programs, and care-navigation support for eligible participants.
Community outreach and education$150,000Trusted local outreach, workshops, scheduling assistance, program navigation, and accessible health-literacy programming.
Practitioner scholarships and workforce readiness$150,000Scholarships, mentorship, documentation readiness, community-care preparation, and hospital-communication standards.
Research readiness and outcomes learning$150,000Privacy-conscious reporting, patient-reported measures, attendance data, partner feedback, and program evaluation.
Program administration and compliance$100,000Charitable-use documentation, restricted-fund tracking, grant administration, reporting, and governance support.
Reserve or matching fund$100,000Match leverage, continuity for board-approved pilots, and responsible continuity of funded programs.

Illustrative allocations are subject to final board-approved budgets, gift restrictions, partner readiness, charitable-purpose review, and documented program needs.

Program integrity

Charitable funds are governed for charitable purpose.

Better Earth Foundation is organized to support charitable programs, not private benefit. Donations are received by the foundation and used for board-approved charitable purposes such as access subsidies, education, scholarships, outcomes learning, and community partnerships.

Where a program involves a related or third-party provider, charitable funding should be documented through appropriate agreements, fair-value review where applicable, restricted-fund tracking, beneficiary criteria, and reporting expectations.

170 Public charity classification

The IRS determination letter lists public charity status under IRC Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi), with contribution deductibility marked yes.

View IRS determination letter
Better Earth Foundation research and outcomes learning
Measured learning helps donors see how charitable funds were deployed and what the foundation learned.

Donor reporting

Founding donors deserve clear reporting.

Better Earth Foundation intends to report on the practical work philanthropy makes possible: subsidy deployment, program utilization, attendance, community partner feedback, practitioner scholarship activity, education delivered, and lessons learned from early charitable pilots.

The goal is not to make exaggerated claims. The goal is to build a serious charitable model that can earn trust, improve access, and learn responsibly over time.

Donor experience

A simple path from interest to a founding gift.

Better Earth Foundation is built to help serious donors move from first conversation to gift documentation without losing clarity. The foundation can support a donor briefing, legal-name and EIN confirmation, campaign-designation discussion, acknowledgment process, and reporting expectations.

1Review the campaign

See the funding priorities, illustrative budget, and program integrity framework.

2Choose a giving pathway

Use a DAF recommendation, check, pledge, grant, corporate gift, or direct major-gift conversation.

3Document the gift

Confirm legal name, EIN, gift purpose, restrictions if any, acknowledgment needs, and reporting expectations.

Join the founding circle

Help launch a charitable access model with clear governance.

A founding gift can help Better Earth Foundation move from IRS recognition to real community benefit: access, education, scholarships, partnerships, and measurable learning.