Ride Home Foundation funds professional track-day training and proper gear for street riders. The racetrack is the safest place to build the skills that bring you home.
Sources: NHTSA (2024) & Texas DOT (2025).
Gravel, dirt, construction, potholes, and distracted drivers: the street throws all of it at you at once. With that much to manage, there’s almost no room left to actually learn.
The track takes the distractions away. With far fewer hazards to react to, a rider can focus on the fundamentals (braking, cornering, throttle, and vision) in a place built for learning. Those are the skills that bring you home safe the next time you ride the street.
Professional instruction on a closed course: trail braking, vision, body position, throttle control, emergency stops. The reflexes that save your life on the street, built in the one place there’s room to fail safely.
A Snell-rated helmet and proper protective gear for the track. Because some crashes were never yours to prevent, and when it goes wrong, what you’re wearing decides how you walk away.
No paperwork maze. No catch. Apply, get geared, and ride.
Tell us your story.
Riders apply in minutes, no essays, no gatekeeping. We review need, commitment, and fit.
A licensed school, and gear that fits.
We pair you with a licensed riding school or track-day program near you and outfit you with a Snell-rated helmet and protective gear for the track.
Learn where mistakes cost seconds, not everything.
Spend a full day with professional coaches on a closed course. Then carry those skills home, to every ride, every commute, every road after.
We show our math. Here’s the real cost of getting one rider home safe, no overhead theater, just gear and instruction.
A full day at a regional Texas track, classroom plus on-track instruction with professional coaches.
A Snell-rated helmet, professionally sized and fitted to the rider.
An abrasion-resistant jacket, gloves, and boots, fitted and ready for a full day on track.
$300 can put one rider on track for a full day. $25 helps fit them with a proper helmet. Every dollar goes to gear or instruction.
Ride Home Foundation was founded by a disabled Air Force veteran who wanted to make fellow veterans a priority in our service to you. Get that priority when you apply as a veteran.
Every scholarship covers a first track day and the gear to ride it. Start in minutes, no essays, no gatekeeping.
You already ride. This is the next level, professional coaching on a closed course to sharpen what the street can’t teach safely. Not a fix for bad riders; a step up for serious ones.
Know a rider who belongs on a track, not pushing their luck on the street? Nominate them. Be the person who’d rather fund a track day than get the call.
Cost should never be the reason a rider doesn’t come home. If it’s the barrier, apply.
We’re building relationships with licensed riding schools, regional Texas tracks, and gear manufacturers. We’ll name our partners here the moment agreements are signed, we’d rather under-promise and over-deliver. If you run a school, a track, or a gear brand and this is your mission too, we want to talk.
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Run a school, a track, or a gear brand? We name partners here the day agreements are signed.
Choose an amount, give once or monthly, or donate gear directly.
$270 puts one rider on track for a full day, classroom plus on-track coaching. Every dollar goes to gear or instruction.
Have a new, sealed helmet or new / like-new protective gear? We’ll get it to a rider. Helmets must be new — never used.
Donate gearAs our first scholarship riders finish their track days, their stories will live here, in their own words, with their own photos. Real names, real roads, real saves.
A small group of riders and volunteers getting this off the ground. More of the board joins here as their bios come together.
A disabled Air Force veteran who found an outlet in riding and started Ride Home Foundation to get more riders home safe. Full bio coming soon.
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Not yet, and we won’t pretend otherwise. We have organized as a nonprofit and our 501(c)(3) status is in formation. Until the IRS issues our determination letter, we cannot promise that donations are tax-deductible. The IRS commonly makes its determination retroactive to the date of formation, so keep your receipt and consult your tax advisor. We’ll update this page the day it becomes official.
Basic courses teach the fundamentals, and they matter. But the track is the only place a rider can safely explore the real limits of braking, cornering, and traction: at speed, with clean pavement, runoff, and corner workers, where a mistake costs lap time, not everything. Those discovered limits are exactly what keeps riders safe on the street.
Yes. New, unused Snell-rated helmets and new or like-new protective gear (jackets, gloves, boots, back protectors) can go straight to a rider. Email us and we’ll arrange it. We only pass along gear that genuinely protects, nothing expired or compromised.
Street riders who want to level up and will show up and do the work. We’re starting regionally in Texas and growing from there. Veterans are a priority for every scholarship, but you do not have to be a veteran to apply. Selection weighs need, commitment, and fit, not how fast you are.
Yes, please do. You can nominate a rider you care about (a friend, partner, son or daughter) and we’ll reach out to them directly. Many of our applications come from the people who’d rather fund a track day than get the call. You’re welcome to give toward their day, too.
A short application, a quick conversation, and a commitment to attend. We prioritize riders for whom cost is the barrier and who will carry the training forward. As funding grows, so does the number of riders we can send.
Helmets are always new and Snell-rated. A helmet’s protection degrades with age and impact, so we never hand down a used one. Other protective gear is new or carefully vetted like-new.
