Mission Gait
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813796186
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8049185792
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,040,733
- Expenses
- $340,462
- Assets
- $4,583,789
- Liabilities
- $428
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID LAWRENCE MSPT (CEO, Founder)
- ANN PARKER GOTTWALD (President)
- ROBIN YODER (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DAVID LAWRENCE MSPT (CEO, Founder)
- ANN PARKER GOTTWALD (President)
- ROBIN YODER (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower the physical rehabilitation community, through education, training, and research. Making a sustainable change in healthcare to help patients with complex gait disabilities (orthopedic, neurologic, and limbloss pathologies)learn to move again with confidence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mission gait academy - education, our hallmark program, includes training, research and our groundbreaking gait rehabilitation specialist certification program. We provide in-person and virtual professional education courses nationally and globally. Our database of providers connects patients with certified professionals in their region. We have created over 407 educational videos on techniques and skills for working with the complex gait community, which are provided on youtube at no cost. These videos have received over 5 million views, with over 33,500 subscribers from more than 186 countries. Our training is provided in-person to professionals and patients alike, and offered across numerous topics. We have completed a number of research projects and are currently supporting several universities, with over 247 educators using our free instructor library.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.2%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $51.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 67.3%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.46; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.2% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $268K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.