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Kids & Clays Foundation
The KIDS & CLAYS FOUNDATION supports ronald mcdonald house charity chapters through shooting sports to improve the lives of critically ill children and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $272,483 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,090,995 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $818,512 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RMHC HOUSTON | $104,117 |
| RMHC PHILADELPHIA | $50,000 |
| RMHC SOUTH LOUISIANA | $31,468 |
| RMHC CENTRAL OHIO | $24,708 |
| RMHC CENTRAL INDIANA | $22,000 |
| RMHC CENTRAL GEORGIA | $15,670 |
| RMHC NORTHEAST INDIANA (FT WAYNE) | $5,800 |
| RMHC OMAHA | $4,320 |
| RMHC GREATER HUDSON VALLEY | $4,120 |
| RMHC TEMPLETX | $2,580 |
| RMHC NASHVILLE | $2,060 |
| RMHC SAN ANTONIO | $1,960 |
| RMHC NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,800 |
| RMHC SOUTHERN COLORADO | $980 |
| RMHC CENTRAL IOWA | $900 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC2× · 2023–2024 · $154k · revenue +58%
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION2× · 2023–2024 · $92k · revenue +195%- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA7× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INCgraduated3× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +50%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL PA3× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +20%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Through support of ronald mcdonald houses in north carolina, rmhc of nc keeps families close to their sick or injured children while they receive treatment at hospitals in our state. rmhc of nc also provides grants to nc charities that…
Ronald mcdonald house charities (rmhc) mission is to keep families with sick children together and near the care and resourses they need. rmhc of marshfield is dedicated to easing the burden of families whose lives have been disrupted as a…
The organization provides a "home away from home" to families with seriously ill children, and supports initiatives to improve pediatric health.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Create and support programs that improve the health and well-being of children. RMHCR accomplishes its mission by caring for families and keeping them close to their children at a 24-bedroom facility; (Continued on Schedule O)Caring for…
Ronald mcdonald house is a home-away from home for the families of children who come to the medical facilities in galveston for diagnosis and treatment of serious and long-term illnesses. this type facility offers parents and their…
The ronald mcdonald houses of eastern north carolina provide a temporary home, support and access to medical care for families of children who are receiving treatment from area medical facilities.
To be the best home-away-from-home and source of respite and resources for children and families suffering a medical crisis.
Housing and programs for sick children and thier families.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of the red river valley supports sick kids and their families who are navigating the complexity and uncertainty of receiving medical care miles from home. by providing the comforts of home, families…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of maryland, inc. provides a home away from home for seriously ill children and their families.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of indiana - michiana is to provide a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE AT THE MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TEMPLE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH AND MORGANTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF COLUMBIA SC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ronald McDonald House Global · Carmax Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Gap Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kids & Clays Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.