Pick a look

Same site, four designs. Your choice sticks on this device, and you can send someone a specific one by adding ?skin=garage to any address. This bar is a temporary chooser and comes off once a look is settled.

Ride day: Saturday, September 19, 2026. Details

Donate

Every dollar goes to the research programs. No exceptions.

You do not have to ride to help. Give online, mail a check, or donate something for the auction. All of it lands in the same place: pediatric brain tumor and heart defect research at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.

Give online

Through the University of Iowa Center for Advancement, straight into the research fund. Card or bank transfer, one time or monthly. They send the receipt.

Donate online

Donate an auction item

The silent and live auctions are a big chunk of every year’s total. Tools, tickets, quilts, gift cards, smokers, services: it all sells.

Mark Reiss 563-542-9063

Mail a check

Make it payable to “Research for the Kids” and send it to:

Research for the Kids
6568 Dayton Rd
Dubuque, IA 52003

About tax deductions

Gifts through the University of Iowa Center for Advancement are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows.

Registration fees, raffle tickets and auction purchases are not deductible charitable contributions, because you receive something in return. If you need documentation for a gift, ask and we will sort it out.

What your money does

It buys research time on two problems that take kids from families in this county.

  • 100% of proceeds go to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital
  • Earmarked for brain tumor and heart defect research
  • Presented as one check every fall, with the total announced on stage
  • The committee takes nothing. Nobody here is paid.

See the year-by-year totals