California · Nonprofit
Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation
Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 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 FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation does
Mission
To provide the experience of hot air balloon flight to people with disabilities serious illness and limited mobility and to their families and caregivers at little or no cost to them: the organization provides free tethered rides at community events and at camps serving children with disabilities and offers accessible flights in its local area at rates below the market price of comparable rides with the proceeds helping to sponsor its free events; and to advance public understanding of accessible aviation through community events and educational demonstrations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organizations accessible-ride program operated aboard its new aircraft in its first full season: the Pala Spirit N703PC was operated on 48 flights totaling 75.1 hours all flown by the chief pilot together with tethered ride operations at community events that are not individually logged; the chief pilot flew the RJ 105 on 2 flights 1.6 hours. Passengers were the organizations own including people with disabilities serious illness and limited mobility and their families and caregivers carried at rates below the market price of comparable rides. The Pala Spirit carries the mark of Pala Casino Spa Resort which pays for services under a written marketing services agreement. It also carried parachutists aloft in its own balloon in March attended the June unveiling of the Alpha 5 world-record balloon at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio and received a 10,000 memorial gift. Not fewer than 100 passengers were flown see Sch. O.
$91,654 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,654.
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
Brian Campbell Lynch
Chief Executive Officer and Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon 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 Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon 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. $10k 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
Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
52%
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 Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon 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 Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation?
- Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 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 Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Reach for the Stars Hot Air Balloon Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing