Texas · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,864,084 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($4,674,023). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 133
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities Greater Houston Inc does
Mission
The mission of the ronald mcdonald house of houston, inc. Is to offer a home away from home and to provide care, compassion, and hope to families with seriously ill children being treated in texas medical center member institutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Holcombe houseat the holcombe house, families stay in a home-like environment near the texas medical center hospitals while their seriously ill children are being treated as inpatients or outpatients. The freestanding holcombe house has seventy bedrooms with private baths, a large communal kitchen/dining room, laundry room, playroom, and teen game room and is conveniently located on the campus of the texas medical center. Complimentary shuttle transportation is provided to children and families. The house encourages caring and sharing among guest families and their seriously ill children. Parents find mutual comfort and support from each other, and the children find playmates and friends who are going through similar treatments. Additional emphasis in 2024 placed on food insecurity and providing at least one (1) meal per day at each program location. This is being done through our joyfull eats program that seeks in-kind and financial donations for this program.
$5,619,758 spentof which $992,500 as grants$96,476 earned by the program80% of program spendingRonald mcdonald house houston inside texas children's hospitalthe texas children's hospital ("tch") house offers nineteen bedrooms for overnight sleep accommodations and day napping for families with children who are inpatients at tch. The house has a kitchen, dining room, laundry room, library/computer room, and quiet room for families to use at their convenience. This house, in addition to overnight stays, offers daily usage of common areas for caregivers to relax, find a bite to eat, and/or talk with volunteers and other parents. This house provides the comforts of home within minutes of the child's treatment area and relieves some of the stress of spending hours or days in a sterile waiting room environment. Rmh operates a total of ten family rooms, lounges, and family kitchens in different locations throughout tch. These areas are adjacent to inpatient, intensive care, and outpatient care units and offer a quiet sitting area, dining tables, television, snacks, fresh coffee, and periodic meals provided by volunteers. Many are open and available to families on a 24/7 basis. Additional emphasis in 2024 placed on food insecurity and providing at least one (1) meal per day at each…
$612,075 spent9% of program spendingRonald mcdonald house houston inside md anderson children's cancer hospital:located on the pediatric floor, the family kitchen and lounge areas include a library and computers, a waiting area with aquarium, television, comfortable seating, dining tables, snacks, fresh coffee, and periodic meals provided by volunteers. Two bedrooms are available for overnight sleeping accommodations for families with children who are inpatients at md anderson children's cancer hospital. Additional emphasis in 2024 placed on food insecurity and providing at least one (1) meal per day at each program location. This is being done through our joyfull eats program that seeks in-kind and financial donations for this program.
$406,485 spent6% of program spendingRonald mcdonald house houston inside children's memorial hermann hospital:the children's memorial hermann hospital ("cmhh") house offers a total of twenty bedrooms for overnight sleep accommodations and day napping for families with children who are inpatients at cmhh. The house has family lounges that are adjacent to the intensive care and inpatient units that offer a quiet sitting area, dining tables, television, snacks, fresh coffee, and periodic meals provided by volunteers. Additional emphasis in 2024 placed on food insecurity and providing at least one (1) meal per day at each program location. This is being done through our joyfull eats program that seeks in-kind and financial donations for this program.
$383,949 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,022,267.
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 2017 to 2018, from $29M to $34M (+17%).
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 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Cristina Vetrano
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Shane Kimzay
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $2.6M.
18 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston House Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 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 GREATER HOUSTON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
56% 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 GREATER HOUSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 23% · 2019 26% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 13% · 2023 24% — 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
42% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
67% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC is better cushioned than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
- Houston House Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,864,084 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($4,674,023). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $19,864,084 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $4,674,023 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 133 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