Gold Star Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264154445
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Fairfax Station, VA, US
- Phone
- 703.646.5137
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,563
- Expenses
- $96,726
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
To raise awareness about American child survivors whose mothers or fathers were killed or died while serving in the United States military, and to remind the child survivors of war that they are not alone.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 2 grants totaling $9,375. The stated grant purposes included to supports families of fallen military service members. and to provide emergency shelter, sober housing, employment training, and food services..
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The foundation carried out 87% of its reported charitable disbursements directly.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 10
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 39
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 10; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Missing
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 12.29; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they fund: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 39th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 39/100.