Tennessee · Nonprofit
Gold Star Mentors INC
Gold Star Mentors INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,016 to it, the largest being THE GOAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($102,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $341k
What Gold Star Mentors INC does
Mission
The organization provides mentors to children and adolescents who have lost a parent or sibling to military service. The individuals will receive music education as a productive way to deal with their personal life challenges. The organization will also provide programs to assist families of deceased veterans with understanding grief.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization conducted meetings either in person or zoom meetings with adolescents who received free guitars and personal instruction.
$30,603 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,603.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $88k to $147k (+67%).
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.
88% of Gold Star Mentors INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $23k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Gold Star Mentors INC’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
Gold Star Mentors INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of Gold Star Mentors INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Gold Star Mentors INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,804 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Gold Star Mentors INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Gold Star Mentors INC?
- Gold Star Mentors INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,016 to it, the largest being THE GOAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($102,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gold Star Mentors INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $107,016 in grants to Gold Star Mentors INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gold Star Mentors INC?
- THE GOAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $102,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gold Star Mentors INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing