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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL PA provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families and promote healing when children need healthcare.

$203k
Granted FY2017
18
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VISTA FOUNDATION$25,000
SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC$25,000
PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE$15,000
GAUDENZIA INC$12,000
AARON'S ACRES$10,941
GIRLS ON THE RUN CAPITAL AREA$10,000
THE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC$10,000
EQUITEAM SUPOORT SERVICES$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF YORK AND ADAMS COUNTIES$7,500
YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$7,500
LEG UP FARM INC$7,150
CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK$5,700
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $11k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $4k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
2
Child Guidance Resource Centers

To provide high quality, community-based therapeutic, supportive, and preventive healthcare services for children, adolescents and families with mental health, development disability, and residential needs

Health
3
George Junior Republic in Pennsylvania

To help at-risk youth become successful, well adjusted adults, capable of achieving a higher degree of citizenship and a better understanding of responsibility to society, family, and self.

Health
4
Pa Treatment & Healing

The mission of pa treatment & healing is to guide people on a path to change through quality counseling, treatment and education. this is accomplished by providing a comprehensive individual and family centered, values oriented treatment…

Community Improvement
5
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
6
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
7
Centre County Youth Service Bureau

The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…

Human Services
8
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
9
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

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10
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
11
Vna Home Health Services

Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…

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12
Sadler Health Center Corporation

To advance the health of our community by providing inclusive, high quality and compassionate care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vista Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Equiteam Support Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMARITAN CENTER: $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INCYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $7,500 · OtherYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC: $7,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK C…GAUDENZIA INC: $12,000 · HealthGAUDENZIA INCKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PA: $10,000 · HealthKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF…EQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 · HealthEQUITEAM SUPPORT SER…THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA: $5,059 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARITAN H…THE VISTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE VISTA FOUNDATIO…FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS: $10,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE …AARON'S ACRES: $10,941 · Human ServicesAARON'S ACRESNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINISTRI…CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $5,700 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME O…MILAGRO HOUSE INC: $4,275 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE INCPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Crime & LegalGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEG UP FARM INC: $7,150 · AnimalsJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $2,500 · International
Other$65,000Health$37,059Education$35,000Human Services$30,916Crime & Legal$15,000Youth Development$10,000Animals$7,150International$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VISTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARON'S ACRES: $10,941 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC: $7,150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA: $5,059 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $4,275 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Foundation for En…Lancaster County Comm…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Anne & Philip Glatfel…Kinsley FoundationYork County Community…Rice Family FoundationThe Donald B and Doro…Pennsylvania Automoti…Firstenergy FoundationFulton Family Foundat…Kenneth Bankert Found…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · York County Community Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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