About Making Miles Matter

Why It's Called Making Miles Matter

It started with a name.

Miles is our founder Brandon's son. The nonprofit that bears his name is built around what his name says — that every mile we travel for the people we love should count for something.

Making Miles Matter is a 501(c)(3) that turns community movement into care. We host the kind of events that bring towns together — rides, hikes, adventures, film nights — and route the proceeds to healthcare causes and the families behind them. The cause is the point. Cycling is the most accessible way to get a community to ride a hundred miles for it.

Findlay Is the Proof

Big dream. Small start. Real proof.

We're starting in because the Hancock Horizontal Hundred has been knitting this town together since 1974. Reviving it in 2025 with 200+ riders proved the model works — that a community will show up for a cause when the event is good, the route is honest, and 100% of the proceeds go where they say they go. HHH 2026 is the proof point we're building from.

The dream is bigger than one ride in one town. The Findlay Further Fondo, Wheels & Reels film nights, group rides, hikes, and adventures all serve the same mission: turn movement into healthcare-cause funding, then do it again, in another town, for another family. We want this model in every community that wants it.

That's why this exists. That's why it's called what it's called. Every mile, however you move, for whoever needs it most — matters.