How much did RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES grant in FY2018?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k22 grants · $92k
$10k–50k7 grants · $73k
$50k–250k3 grants · $475k
$250k+1 grant · $525k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - NEW YORK$525,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - LONG ISLAND$200,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - GREATER HUDSON VALLEY$150,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY$125,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION$12,500
KEEPING BABIES SAFE$10,000
PARENT-CHILD HOME PROGRAM$10,000
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER$10,000
FACES (FINDING A CURE FOR EPILEPSY AND SEIZURES)$10,000
FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NYC$10,000
NJ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$10,000
TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION$8,000
KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION$7,500
BRONX CHILDRENS MUSEUM$5,000
CAMP AMERIKIDSTHE ELM PROJECT$5,000

02The need

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, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 11 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+10%

Still filing today

91%

95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - NEW YORK
2× · 2017–2018 · $1.1M · revenue +2%
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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - LONG ISLAND
2× · 2017–2018 · $400k · revenue +204%
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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - GREATER HUDSON VALLEY
2× · 2017–2018 · $300k · revenue +218%

Funded once

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NASSAU SUFFOLK SERVICES FOR AUTISMgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +55%
CP
CEREBRAL PALSY OF WESTCHESTER
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +10%
BP
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

The Child Study Center of New York

To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.

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New York City Energy Efficiency

Delivering financing solutions and advancing markets for energy efficiency and clean energy.

Environment

New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives

Arts & Culture

Children in Conflict Inc

Children in conflict protects, educates, and provides hope for children caught up in conflict.

Human Services

Brooklyn Kindergarten Society

Bks mission to ensure that the children in its centers develop the social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills they need to succeed.

Education

1199SEIUGREATER New York Child Care

To establish child care youth programs and related services for fund eligible 1199 members in order to increase their access to high quality, affordable child care and youth related services and information. to assist parents reconciling…

Membership Benefit

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.

Health

Job Path Inc

Job path supports people with autism and other developmental disabilities as they make choices about their lives and play valued roles in their communities.

Employment

The Bronx Council On the Arts

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and builds strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture

The New York State Society of Certified

To cultivate, promote, and disseminate knowledge and information concerning certified public accountants.

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The Bronx Parent Housing Network Inc

Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and…

Human Services

Child Health and Development Institute

To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit and the most unlike its peers is Start Treatment and Recovery. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/74

the rest of the field

10%

5,786/59,205

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

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/74

Grantees still filing

54/74

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$1,107,500Other$1,066,000Arts & Culture$75,000Human Services$74,500Youth Development$27,500Education$19,500Community Improvement$19,000

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.

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 Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ40.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HELENE MARKS EARLY START FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260483059 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HELENE MARKS EARLY START FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ronald McDonald House Charities?

Find your warmest path to Ronald McDonald House Charities through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ronald McDonald House Charities?

More from the funding graph

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ronald McDonald House Charities?

More from the funding graph