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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tristate Inc
To provide benefits to local youth in area communities by donating money to various local tax-exempt organizations and programs (I.e.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $898,841 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $960,955 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,114 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 $10k12 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OHIO VALLEY | $400,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ST LOUIS | $90,000 |
| MCCRACKEN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $83,808 |
| FRANKFORT CUSD 168 | $38,565 |
| PADUCAH PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $28,588 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $26,480 |
| ST MARY SCHOOL SYSTEM | $25,035 |
| MOUNT VERNON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT 80 | $24,091 |
| CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $19,557 |
| MAYFIELD ROTARY CLUB | $14,500 |
| KENTUCKY SHERIFF'S RANCH | $14,200 |
| CRITTENDEN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,556 |
| GRACE LIFE CHURCH | $10,396 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JOHN A LOGAN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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 +76% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 21 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $445k · revenue +76%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +108%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BHBaptist Health Foundation Paducah Incone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -55%
- CWCHILD WATCH COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -7%
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.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of indiana - michiana is to provide a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children.
At ronald mcdonald house, we provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois (RMHCCI) provides programs to support the well-being of children and provides a home away from home for families with children receiving medical care.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of tampa bay (rmhctb) is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
To provide lodging to families of hospitalized children at an affordable cost, or no cost, based on need through operation of the ronald mcdonald house.
Ronald mcdonald house charities columbia, sc creates, funds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.
To provide a supportive home-away-from-home for families of children receiving medical care at riley children's health and other area hospitals.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of eastern wisconsin, inc. keeps families together and promotes the health and well-being of children. the organization provides a home environment and supportive family programs.
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.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of maryland, inc. provides a home away from home for seriously ill children and their families.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Kentuckiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Sheriffs' Boys & Girls Ranch Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHERIFFS' BOYS & GIRLS RANCH TRUST ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Paducah Inc ↗
- Who funds STARFISH ORPHAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Illinois Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARKET HOUSE THEATRE OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD WATCH COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
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: Community Foundation of West Kyinc · Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc · Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Share Our Strength · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Charities of Tristate 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.
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.
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