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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,987,282 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($19,630,265). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.1M
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$44M
Net assets
$30M
21/42 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Ronald McDonald House Charities Dayton does

Mission

Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated ronald mcdonald house dayton (rmh), which provides temporary housing for families with hospitalized children from the greater miami valley region. During 2024, the organization provided 4,061 nights of service to 177 families from 28 ohio counties, 17 states and 22 countries (columbia, egypt, guatemala, honduras, jamaica, mexico, nigeria, trinidad & tobago, usa, st. Thomas, gaza, panama, lagos, sri lanka, oman, ecuador, dominican republic, fiji, tanzania, nepal, philippines, st. Lucia).donated volunteer services valued at $277,589 in 2024 also enabled Ronald McDonald House Charities Dayton to provide a place for families to stay while their children are hospitalized.the ronald mcdonald family room (rmfr) located inside dayton children's hospital provides complimentary snacks, beverages, lite meals, a respite/relaxation area, laundry facilities, shower facilities, a charging station, and computer access with printer and fax to families with children inpatient at dayton children's hospital and only steps away from the bedside. In 2024 the rmfr inside of dayton children's hospital served 1,323 families and 8,891 individuals from 19 states and 28 ohio counties.in 2024, the…

    $2,600,153 spent$321,252 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,600,153.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 103 ($1.7M) Net assets 88 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 130 ($1.8M) Expenses 93 ($1.6M) Net assets 105 ($3.9M)2021 Revenue 511 ($7.2M) Expenses 102 ($1.7M) Net assets 259 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 248 ($3.5M) Expenses 135 ($2.3M) Net assets 697 ($26M)2024 Revenue 506 ($7.1M) Expenses 191 ($3.2M) Net assets 807 ($30M)
201720182020202120232024
Revenue (506)Expenses (191)Net assets (807)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.0M to $9.9M (+147%).

$3.9M
$3.4M
$4.0M
$9.9M
$40M
$44M
201720182020202120232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$263k
’17
−$332k
’18
$276k
’20
$5.5M
’21
$1.2M
’23
$3.9M
’24
25
months of
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

Rita Cyr

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Mariah Butler Vogelgesang

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201720182020202120232024
Listed231820182119
Joined·+0·+2·+1
No longer listed·5·4·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $416k → $16M.

11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 CHARITIES DAYTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 CHARITIES DAYTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 CHARITIES DAYTON.

45%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 56% · 2019 55% · 2020 49% · 2021 47% · 2022 78% · 2023 93% — 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

47% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
MI
NY
IA
OH
CT
MO
VA
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 6%Fundraising 13%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • 555 Valley Street LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON?
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,987,282 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($19,630,265). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $43,987,282 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON?
THE DAYTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,630,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DAYTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 42 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