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MISSION GAIT

EIN 81-3796186 RICHMOND, VA

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Revenue 2025
$1,040,733
Expenses 2025
$340,462

Program services were 78.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1200
Street
8191 STAPLES MILL RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

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.

  • 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.

    Expenses $152,252

  • PATIENT REINTEGRATION PROGRAM - WE ARE REDEFINING LIMITS FOR THOSE EXPERIENCING COMPLEX GAIT CONDITIONS, "TO MOVE AGAIN WITH CONFIDENCE." WE PROVIDE NO-COST ONLINE RESOURCES, ADAPTIVE SPORTS OPPORTUNITIES AND COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING EVENTS. OUR ANNUAL "DISCOVER YOUR POSSIBLE" EVENT BRINGS TOGETHER AMPUTEES, CAREGIVERS, AND PROFESSIONALS FOR EDUCATION, HANDS-ON SKILLS AND ACTIVITY TRAINING, AND EMPOWERMENT, ALONGSIDE COMMUNITY PARTNERS. OUR ANNUAL ALL-STARS EVENT HONORS OUR PATIENT AMBASSADORS WHO INSPIRE OTHERS THROUGH EDUCATION, RESOURCES, AND CONNECTION. OUR "WALKING FOR WELLNESS" PROGRAM BUILDS ENDURANCE, CONFIDENCE, AND COMMUNITY BEYOND CLINICAL CARE. OUR "PATIENT POINTERS" RESOURCE SHARES PRACTICAL, PEER-DRIVEN, NON-MEDICAL TIPS AND INSIGHTS. WE ALSO PROVIDE GUIDANCE, TEMPLATES, AND RESOURCES TO HELP OTHERS DEVELOP SIMILAR EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $93,295

  • WALKING FREE PROGRAM - OUR INTERNATIONAL PROSTHETIC, ORTHOTIC, AND REHABILITATION INITIATIVE BRINGS CAPACITY TO UNDERSERVED COUNTRIES, CURRENTLY 10 SUSTAINABLE CENTERS IN 7 COUNTRIES. IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, WE BUILT A P & O LAB INSIDE A 40-FOOT SHIPPING CONTAINER, DEPLOYED TO THE SOLOMON ISLANDS READY TO USE WITH ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS. TWO MISSION TRIPS PROVIDED ON-SITE TRAINING, DEMONSTRATING A SUSTAINABLE AND REPLICABLE MODEL WITH A REGIONAL MULTI-DISCIPLINARY HEALTHCARE SYMPOSIUM IN DEVELOPMENT. WE ALSO LAUNCHED AN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM, STARTING WITH A 2-WEEK SHADOWING EXPERIENCE FOR A PHYSICAL THERAPIST FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. WE ARE ALSO HELPING TO ESTABLISH A STUDENT EXCHANGE BETWEEN VCU'S DPT PROGRAM AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.(FOUNDED IN 2000 THROUGH 'PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE,' WE ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF WALKING FREE IN 2016.)

    Expenses $22,101

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Lawrence Mspt

    CEO, Founder

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Ann Parker Gottwald

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robin Yoder

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gordon Smith MD

    Sec / Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,040,733
    Expenses
    $340,462
    Contributions
    $820,160
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $932,454
    Expenses
    $306,916
    Contributions
    $734,826
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $715,339
    Expenses
    $245,641
    Contributions
    $667,260
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $775,881
    Expenses
    $308,715
    Contributions
    $785,213
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $631,224
    Expenses
    $233,873
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,035,265

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $535,692
    Expenses
    $171,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,577,166

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $575,932
    Expenses
    $156,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,213,062

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $483,702
    Expenses
    $150,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $793,980

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,579
    Expenses
    $98,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $460,740

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $111,350
    Expenses
    $57,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,000

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.