Josie King Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261118580
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Towson, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4105041866
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,382
- Expenses
- $52,593
- Assets
- $480,846
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SORREL KING (President)
- TONY KING (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SORREL KING (President)
- TONY KING (Vice President)
- PETER PRONOVOST (Director)
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
The josie king foundation provides patient safety tools to hospitals, medical schools and nursing schools and individuals across the country.
What it reported doing in 2025
Care journal - the care journal is a tool to help patients and their loved ones record the details of their medical care. Hospitalization can be an overwhelming experience in addition to the stress of being faced with health challenges, there is also the added stress of having to keep track of new and important information. The 30-day care journal was designed to help patients manage this information. Then in 2012, jkf created the care journal mini, after noting that patients with shorter stays had different needs. The mini covers seven 7 days of hospitalization and is physically smaller and more portable. Both care journals can be sponsored by a hospital and personalized with a black label that can be applied to the back cover. When the hospital hands the patient or the patient's loved one a care journal upon admission it sends a positive message - here is a gift from us to you. We encourage you to keep track of information and to ask questions and most of all we invite you to partner with us in your care.. Our goal is for hospitals to partner with us in the care journal campaign by making a donation to the foundation. In return, we will provide journals for the hospitals to present to their patients as a gift. In 2016, 1,420 care journal minis and 6,285 30-day care journals were shipped to hospitals across the country. In 2017, 4,665 care journal minis and 8,391 30-day care journals were shipped to hospitals across the country. In 2018, 794 care journal minis and 8,316 30-day care journals were shipped across the country. In 2019, 175 care journal minis and 4,101 30-day care journals were shipped across the country. In 2020, 9,270 care journal minis and 4,354 30-day care journals were shipped across the country. In 2022, 1,550 30-day care journals were shipped across the country. In 2023, 4,534 30-day care journals and 22 care journal minis were shipped across the country. In 2024, 2,607 30-day care journals and 2,508 care journal minis were shipped. In 2025, 2,679 30-day care journals and 28 care journal minis were shipped.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -146%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.14; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -30.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.