Arizona · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,074,761 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($3,267,099). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Ronald McDonald House Central and Northern Arizona Inc does
Mission
Maintaining and operating one or more facilities in the valley to provide temporary housing for seriously ill children and their families while the children are receiving treatment at a nearby hospital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, ronald mcdonald house central and northern arizona provided 18,869 nights of rest for families traveling to phoenix and mesa for medical care and treatment for their children. We served 1,071 families. Each night we provided temporary housing for 72 families at one of our three houses we operate in the valley. We provide a welcoming "home-away-from-home" for families which include private guest rooms and private bathrooms. We have private apartments for families who have children who are immunocompromised. We provide nightly meals, laundry facilities, and outdoor spaces for children and families. The cost to house a family for one night is $132 and there is never a charge for families to stay with us. We are community funded and are fiscally responsible with our donor dollars. We have a small staff and utilize community volunteers.
$2,842,062 spent$780,925 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,842,062.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $22M to $25M (+11%).
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 8% · 2021 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Kerry Schulman
CEO
Board chair
Councilman Kevin Robinson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $375k → $1.2M.
14 of 87 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 25% · 2019 12% · 2020 57% · 2021 49% · 2022 45% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.
“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
49% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC
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In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC (Arizona) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,074,761 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($3,267,099). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $8,074,761 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $3,267,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 87 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