JOIN Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 413647349
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Morgantown, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3048716045
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashby Cayton (President)
People named in this filing
- Ashby Cayton (President)
- Kevin Means (Secretary)
- Brandon Rimmel (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
JOIN Foundation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to improve community well-being through non-clinical resilience, wellness, and engagement programs. The organization provides structured movement, peer support, leadership development, community-building activities, and educational opportunities that promote personal growth, healthy lifestyles, social connection, and civic participation. JOIN Foundation serves adults, including veterans, individuals in recovery, reentry populations, and other underserved community members, by fostering belonging, accountability, and positive community engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
JOIN Foundation is a West Virginia nonprofit organization established to strengthen resilience, belonging, and community engagement through non-clinical, trauma-informed wellness programming. The organization develops and supports structured movement, peer engagement, leadership development, and community-building activities designed to promote healthy lifestyles, personal responsibility, and social connection among adults. During the reporting period, JOIN Foundation focused on organizational development, governance, strategic planning, partnership exploration, program design, and compliance activities necessary to prepare for future charitable operations. The organization developed the framework for JOIN The Fight!, a community-based resilience program that combines structured physical activity, shared effort, and peer support to foster confidence, accountability, and community participation. JOIN Foundation's activities are guided by the principles of Journey, Ownership, Integrity, and Network. The organization intends to serve veterans, individuals in recovery, reentry populations, and other underserved adults through accessible, non-clinical programs that encourage personal growth, healthy routines, and meaningful community involvement. No program service revenue was received during the reporting period, and all efforts were directed toward establishing the organizational infrastructure required to carry out the Foundation's charitable and educational mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.