Shining Star Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850878270
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Franklin, TN, USA
Phone
8778295500
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Corporate Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,160
Expenses
$34,505
Assets
$383,556
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kerry Olson (President)

People named in this filing

  • Kerry Olson (President)
  • Karen Brennan (Secretary)
  • Rebecca Reinhard (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Shining Star Foundation was created by CKE employees and their valuable donations to generously help other employees in time of need. The purpose of the foundation is to "Take Care of Our Own".

What it reported doing in 2025

The Foundations' primary charitable activity is to operate an employee assistance, grant-making program for the benefit of CKE associates (the "program"). The program provides grants to individual CKE and affiliated associates who are experiencing financial hardship due to unexpected events or disasters ("program grants"). Such program grants range from $100 to $5,000 per individual. In 2025, the foundation provided grants to 25 individuals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.12; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -96.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -44.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.