Minnesota · Nonprofit
Gold Star Ride Foundation
Gold Star Ride Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($63). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $63
- Net assets
- $46k
What Gold Star Ride Foundation does
Mission
We support immediate family members of those killed in the military - Gold Star Families. Our mission statement: The Gold Star Ride Foundation will actively support comfort and provide benefits to Gold Star Families throughout the United States and will provide these things directly with personal visits via motorcycle; and we will support those other organizations that work to assist in these same activities. We do the work that our fallen heroes would do if they hadnt fallen for all our freedom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We paid utility bills for many of our recipients throughout the country.
$2,000 spentof which $48,000 as grants65% of program spendingWe personally visited with another 88 Gold Star Families in 2025. And we provided services for those families in many ways. Those ways included paying utilities water bills grocery bills car payments rent payments and other similar payments.
$1,100 spentof which $38,750 as grants35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,100.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $20k to $54k (+173%).
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.
100% of Gold Star Ride Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Ride Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Gold Star Ride Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63 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 Ride Foundation's revenue fell 20% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Gold Star Ride Foundation
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Gold Star Ride Foundation: 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 Gold Star Ride Foundation?
- Gold Star Ride Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($63). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Gold Star Ride Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $63 in grants to Gold Star Ride Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Gold Star Ride Foundation?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gold Star Ride Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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