About Ronald Mcdonald House Charities
Provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Focus Areas
healthcare accessfamily support and shelternutritious mealsvolunteer engagementresearch and innovation
About Ronald Mcdonald House Charities
A defining pattern in Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc’s grantmaking is sustained support for local RMHC chapters serving families with children who need healthcare. In the recent grants list, the largest award went to RMHC of Southern California Inc in Los Angeles for $4,160,067, and another major grant went to RMHC of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana Inc in Hines for $3,075,679. Those awards sit within a broader portfolio that includes RMHC of St Louis Inc, RMHC Greater Houston, Atlanta RMHC Inc, and RMHC New York Metro Inc, showing a networked approach rather than a single-site strategy. The foundation’s mission centers on removing barriers, strengthening families, and promoting healing when children need healthcare, and its funding aligns with family accommodation, hospital-based family services, housing and temporary accommodation, and pediatric care access. It also supports related work in nutritious meals, volunteer engagement, research and innovation, and scholarships connected to the RMHC mission. Several active programs point to chapter support and family-centered services, including Community Grants, the Family Impact Fund, and the Serve More Families, Better award.
What Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Funds
In family accommodation and shelter, the foundation gave $2,073,831 to RMHC Greater Houston for support tied to its mission services, and $1,578,665 to RMHC of Tampa Bay Inc in Tampa for similar chapter-based work. In hospital-connected family support, RMHC of the Philadelphia Region received $1,346,298 in Philadelphia, reflecting the organization’s emphasis on keeping families close when children are receiving care. Scholarships also appear in the RMHC program set: the Grants & Scholarships area and related grants, scholarships, and awards pages show that the foundation supports student aid alongside chapter grants. The Serve More Families, Better award adds a program-innovation layer, recognizing support services within RMHC’s three core programs and peer-vetted work that responds to unmet family needs. Together, these grants show a mix of operating support, family services, and mission-aligned recognition programs.
How Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Gives
Typical awards are mid-sized to large: p25 is $114,582, the median is $229,201, and p75 is $488,814. The recent grant list also shows repeated support to the same chapters across multiple years, including RMHC of St Louis Inc, RMHC of Southern California Inc, RMHC of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana Inc, RMHC New York Metro Inc, and RMHC of Alabama Inc. That pattern points to recurring support rather than one-off awards. The foundation does not fund individuals, and the active programs indicate a mix of general grants, chapter support, scholarships, and a peer-selected award. Unsolicited applications are not accepted for the listed grants and scholarship programs; the Serve More Families, Better award is the exception and is marked as accepting unsolicited nominations.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$67.5M
Total Assets
$303.2M
Total Revenue
$144M
Total Expenses
$116.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $115K and $489K, with a median of $229K.
25th Percentile
$115K
Median
$229K
75th Percentile
$489K
Geographic Reach
National49 states funded
About 2% of grants go to recipients in FL.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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