California · Nonprofit
SHIFTING GEARS USA
SHIFTING GEARS USA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $260k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Shifting Gears USA does
Mission
Our primary purposes and objectives are to advance the interest in, appreciation for, enthusiasm about, and enjoyment of automobiles in the community; promote the education of the community, including younger people, about automotive culture and automotive history; inspire ownership, operation, restoration, and preservation of vintage, classic and modernized, exotic, racing and special edition cars; support participation in events celebrating the automobile - such as car drives, tours, rallies, seminars, shows and meets - and the goodwill and fellowship engendered when car enthusiasts gather for car-related activities and social events; and promote, organize, and operate an annual Shifting Gears USA rally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through our annual rally, we raise funds to support youth education in the technical trades, including automotive, construction and medical assistant trainings. We also continue to support our car appreciation and preservation program and the marin county office of education's career technical education program.
$159,438 spent$181,600 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,438.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $172k to $280k (+63%).
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.
30% of SHIFTING GEARS USA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Charles Goodman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $30k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SHIFTING GEARS USA’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
SHIFTING GEARS USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SHIFTING GEARS USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SHIFTING GEARS USA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
SHIFTING GEARS USA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHIFTING GEARS USA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SHIFTING GEARS USA: 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 SHIFTING GEARS USA?
- SHIFTING GEARS USA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHIFTING GEARS USA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $95,000 in grants to SHIFTING GEARS USA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIFTING GEARS USA?
- The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIFTING GEARS USA 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.
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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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing