Georgia · Nonprofit
ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC
ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,767,869 to it, the largest being Joseph B Whitehead Foundation ($10,000,000). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 165
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $104M
What Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc does
Mission
To transform pediatric healthcare access and experiences for families with ill, injured, or recovering children through a network of houses, family rooms, care mobiles, and community resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In accordance with the contract with children's healthcare of atlanta, the family room program closed in august 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Atlanta ronald mcdonald house charities, inc. Owns and operates two temporary housing facilities for families of children undergoing treatment (outpatients or inpatients) for serious illnesses and injuries. These facilities are located at 795 gatewood road, atlanta, georgia and 5420 peachtree dunwoody road, sandy springs, georgia and have a total of 81 rooms. The houses are much more than a room to stay in, they provide comfort, support and resources for families with sick children just steps away from the hospital. To ensure no families are turned away, the charity utilized hotel partners in addition to its two housing facilities in 2024. 3,652 families were served by our house and hotel programs in 2024.
$6,065,866 spentof which $468,811 as grants95% of program spendingThe ronald mcdonald family room at children's healthcare of atlanta at scottish rite was created to provide families of children undergoing cancer treatment with a special family respite room for their comfort and support. 734 families were served by the family room in 2024.
$253,417 spent4% of program spendingThe ronald mcdonald care mobile is a 40-foot long, 8-foot wide van that is a fully functioning medical clinic providing health education, primary care, asthma care, school-required immunizations, health checks and sports physicals to children in local elementary and middle schools. In 2024, the ronald mcdonald care mobile provided services at 33 schools, serving 979 students.
$39,684 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,358,967.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $82M to $112M (+36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tracey B Atwater
President & CEO
Board chair
Helen S Carlos
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $391k → $10M.
28 of 165 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 165 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 28% · 2019 28% · 2020 38% · 2021 29% · 2022 29% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC?
- ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,767,869 to it, the largest being Joseph B Whitehead Foundation ($10,000,000). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 165 organizations giving $46,767,869 in grants to ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC?
- Joseph B Whitehead Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 165 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing