Virginia · Nonprofit
MISSION GAIT
MISSION GAIT (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,834,801 to it, the largest being 4G FOUNDATION (FKA NORDLEY-GOTTWALD FNDN ($2,539,167). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Mission Gait does
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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.
$152,252 spent57% of program spendingPatient 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.
$93,295 spent35% of program spendingWalking 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.)
$22,101 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $267,648.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.6M to $4.6M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of MISSION GAIT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
David Lawrence Mspt
CEO, Founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $310k → $598k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MISSION GAIT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MISSION GAIT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 69% · 2019 69% · 2020 54% · 2021 60% · 2022 57% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
70% of MISSION GAIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of MISSION GAIT's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MISSION GAIT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSION GAIT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSION GAIT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSION GAIT?
- MISSION GAIT (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,834,801 to it, the largest being 4G FOUNDATION (FKA NORDLEY-GOTTWALD FNDN ($2,539,167). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION GAIT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,834,801 in grants to MISSION GAIT, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION GAIT?
- 4G FOUNDATION (FKA NORDLEY-GOTTWALD FNDN is the largest funder on record, with $2,539,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION GAIT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing