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JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC

EIN 82-0765105 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$311,833
Expenses 2025
$97,794

Program services were 69.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E12
Classification
1280
Street
5117 52ND ST NW

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

Providing financial support to individuals, organizations or other entities engaged in research, education, and innovation related to children with brain injuries, their treatment, rehabilitation, recovery and activities of daily living.

  • The BFit Power Exercise Program has been so successful that the management of the National Rehabilitation Hospital has expanded the program to a second location. There are now three 12-week programs: Fall and Spring programs are held at the Northern Virginia site, and the Summer program is held at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC. In FY 2023 Joey's Foundation provided the initial $100,000 as the supporting organization and financial sponsor of the inaugural year of the BFit Power-based Exercise Program in Northern Virginia. The complimentary program included two full sessions: the first in the Fall of 2024 and a second session in the Spring of 2025. By word of mouth the reputation of the program has spread throughout the disability community, and parents are eager to have their children enrolled. The BFit program encourages physical activity and participation for children with cerebral palsy (CP), the most common motor disability in childhood, affecting an estimated 500,000 to 700,00 children and adults in the United States. CP is a collection of non-progressive conditions affecting the brain. Impairments are caused by abnormal development of the nervous system characterized by spasticity, muscle weakness, and poor motor control. This vulnerable population is often excluded from participating in community-based physical activity. The BFit program's supportive social environment reduces barriers to participation and focuses on increasing not only physical but also social functioning. The 12-week program consists of two 60-90 minute activity sessions each week. Outcome measures for each participant are based on standardized assessments done at the start of the program with goals set by the participants and their families. BFit enables adolescents with physical disabilities to pursue their desire to participate in recreational sports and increase physical activity. With positive reinforcement and increased self-esteem, participants learn that they are capable of participating in many different types of exercises, utilizing a variety of equipment and learning new motor skills. The program implementation requires exercise space, equipment, program coordination, volunteer trainers from local physical therapy schools, and medical oversight. Participants demonstrate improved functional outcomes, mental health and socialization. An additional benefit of the program is the hands-on experience for the physical therapy students who volunteer to work with these children. Under the oversight of licensed physical therapists, these students are responsible for administering the exercise programs, documentation, set up, break down (including cleaning), nightly feedback, and outcome measures. The volunteer students meet with the MedStar Health professional staff before and after each session to discuss each child's needs, develop appropriate exercises based on individual needs, and review outcomes and progress. The volunteer students benefit from the hands-on learning experience with the children and from the professional mentoring of the MedStar National Rehabilitation Network physical and occupational therapists.

    Expenses $50,000 · Grants $50,000

  • Joey's Foundation supported the 9th Annual Cerebral Palsy Research Network (CPRN) Meeting held April 2026 in Baltimore, Maryland. Attendees included leaders in the field of cerebral palsy care and research---clinician researchers from 35 CPRN sites as well as partner organizations, advisors, and community members. The mission of CPRN is to "optimize the lifelong health and wellness of people with cerebral palsy and their families through high quality research, education and community programming.....CPRN is the largest and most comprehensive network of hospitals and community members working together to improve health outcomes for people with CP."

    Expenses $2,500 · Grants $2,500

  • Joey's Foundation is committed to support Kennedy Krieger Institute and its life-changing work. The Institute treats children, adolescents and young adults with neurological injuries and conditions that impact how they think, move, speak, learn and interface with the world. Kennedy Krieger has over 80 programs, including a hospital and schools that serve nearly 30,000 patients and students each year. Their scientists lead over 700 active research studies, investigating new treatments, interventions and innovation. Their collaborative model creates a unique, interdisciplinary approach to whole-child care.

    Expenses $15,000 · Grants $15,000

  • Joey's Corner provides books for children with and without disabilities. The organization is engaged in the creation and distribution of multisensory adaptive books for children with motor skill impairment. Adapted text and symbol-supported versions of reading material will bring books to life in a visual and physical way. Props like puppets or toys enhance a story and increase understanding. Renovated, laminated copies of image or characters make the reading material interactive. Finally, the use of speech-generating devices aligned to a text will increase interaction and understanding of the story. Multisensory books are creative, fun and enhance comprehension.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Robert L Sloan

    Board Chair/President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Janet Sloan

    Board Member/Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Matthew Ammerman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Sherri Bohinc

    Board Member/Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Nicholas McConnell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Christopher Shaw

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Susan Shaw

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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
    $311,833
    Expenses
    $97,794
    Contributions
    $295,472
    Grants paid
    $67,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $273,264
    Expenses
    $35,381
    Contributions
    $250,693
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $261,523
    Expenses
    $130,880
    Contributions
    $240,140
    Grants paid
    $114,360
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $223,165
    Expenses
    $14,195
    Contributions
    $208,925
    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
    $410,704
    Expenses
    $57,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $781,485

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $225,483
    Expenses
    $109,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $610,996

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017
Principal officer
Robert Sloan
Mailing address
5117 52nd St NWWashington DC 20016

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • MedStar National Rehabilitation

    $100,000

    2023 Implementation and management of the BFit Exercise Program

  • Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital

    $50,000

    2025 BFit Power Based Exercise Program - to provide exercise space, equipment, program coordination, professional staff, volunteer trainers from local physical therapy school, and medical oversight

  • Kennedy Krieger Institute

    $15,000

    2025 To support Kennedy Krieger Institute and its life-changing work with children, adolescents and young adults with neurological injuries and conditions.

  • Kennedy Krieger Institute

    $12,500

    2023 To provide travel funds for those participating in the PediaCORE research project.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.