Ronald McDonald House Global

Analysis

Ronald McDonald House Global is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ronald McDonald House Global reported income of $106.3m and spending of $89.3m, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $60.5m to $106.3m (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Ronald McDonald House Global sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Baystate Wing Hospital Corporation ($106.3m), Planned Parenthood-Orange and San Bernardino Counties Inc ($106.5m) and Methodist Healthcare-Olive Branch Hospital ($106.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. It paid $522k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $254.2m against liabilities of $16.1m, net assets of $238.1m.