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Ronald McDonald House Albany Inc

Ronald mcdonald house albany offers a range of programs and services that focus on meeting the critical needs of sick and injured children and their families.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$97kHuman Services$58kHousing & Shelter$24kFood & Nutrition$15kPhilanthropy$14kEducation$11kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$6kOther$34k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$72,295
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM$72,295
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAPTAIN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 7%BUS STOP CLUB: $10k → 14%NYSARC INC: $5k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $10k → 14%THE BABY INSTITUTE INC: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK: $10k → 14%ALBANY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
2
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
4
Accesscny Inc

Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…

Health
5
Cattaraugus Rehabilitation Center Inc

The corporation was formed to operate various programs to assist in the development of the mentally and physically disabled. we assist the people we serve through a continuum of service that fosters community participation and personal…

Human Services
6
The Children's Ctr At Suny Morrisville State College Inc

The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…

Unclassified
7
Central New York Quest Inc

Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.

Human Services
8
Albany County Rural Housing Alliance

Community renewal services

Housing & Shelter
9
Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…

Health
10
Wraparound Services of the Hudson Valley Inc

Wraparound services of the hudson valley partners with communities throughout the mid-hudson valley to empower people with disabilities to achieve their highest potential by providing innovative community, educational and residential…

Health
11
Family Promise of Western New York

Alongside our parnters, we keep families experiencing homelessness together by offering housing and compassionate support as they find work to find their way back home.

Housing & Shelter
12
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Addictions Care Center of Albany Inc and the most unlike its peers is Servants of the Word 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 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr10%0%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr25%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr10%0%5–10yr18%45%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr25%14%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
8%
393/4,810

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.

04the grantee network

24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
21/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEM — $72,295 · HealthALBANY MED HEALTH SYSTEMGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONADDICTIONS CARE CENTER OF ALBANY INC — $10,000 · HealthADDICTIONS CARE CENTER OF ALBANY INCTHE BUS STOP CLUB INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BUS STOP CLUB INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cr…Family Promise of the Capital Region Inc — $9,750 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of the Ca…ALBANY COUNTY OPPORTUNITY INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesALBANY COUNTY OPPORTUNIT…BABY INSTITUTE INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesBABY INSTITUTE INCCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN …NYSARC INC SARATOGA COUNTY CHAPTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesNYSARC INC SARATOGA COUN…WILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC — $10,300 · OtherWILDWOOD PROGRAMS IN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALBANY INC — $9,311 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB …Servants of the Word Inc — $7,500 · OtherServants of the Word…YWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC — $7,100 · OtherYWCA OF THE GREATER …ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · OtherADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUN…Saratoga Automobile Museum — $5,500 · OtherSaratoga Automobile …EQUINOX INC — $13,000 · Housing & ShelterEQUINOX IN…INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $5,512 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH…REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING…FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionVOORHEESVILLE COMMUNITY & SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $8,880 · PhilanthropyWATERVLIET CIVIC CHEST INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe RED Bookshelf Inc — $5,735 · EducationCrossroads Center for Children — $5,600 · Education
Health$97,295Human Services$57,750Other$47,211Housing & Shelter$23,512Food & Nutrition$15,000Philanthropy$13,880Education$11,335

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEQUINOX INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC — $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUS STOP CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetADDICTIONS CARE CENTER OF ALBANY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALBANY INC — $9,311 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOORHEESVILLE COMMUNITY & SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $8,880 over 1y, 82% of budgetALBANY COUNTY OPPORTUNITY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABY INSTITUTE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC — $7,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe RED Bookshelf Inc — $5,735 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCrossroads Center for Children — $5,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $5,512 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaratoga Automobile Museum — $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWATERVLIET CIVIC CHEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNYSARC INC SARATOGA COUNTY CHAPTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…JM McDonald Foundatio…Price Chopper's Golub…United Way of the Gre…Review FoundationCapital District Phys…Pioneer Bank Charitab…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Gideon Lodge #140 B'N…The Seymour Fox Memor…Sunmark Charitable Co…Rose & Kiernan Charit…
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY40.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Review Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gideon Lodge #140 B'Nai B'Rith Housing Foundation Inc · The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation Inc · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · Rose & Kiernan Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Ronald McDonald House Albany Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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