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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,532,824 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($612,892). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$6.0M
14/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Augusta Inc does

Mission

Ronald mcdonald house charities of augusta, inc. (the organization) is a georgia nonprofit charitable corporation formed in 1984. The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities ("rmhc") is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children. Collectively, rmhc and the network of local chapters ascribe to five core values: we are focused on the critical needs of children, we lead with compassion, we celebrate the diversity of our people and our programs, we value our heritage and we operate with accountability and transparency. We fulfill our mission through operation of sustainable programs that enable family-centered care, bridge access to quality health care, are a vital part of the health care continuum and strengthen families during difficult times. The following programs, operated by the organization, represent the core functions of ronald mcdonald house charities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization helps families stay close to their ill or injured children by providing temporary lodging, meals, and other support to children and their families. The program provides families with emotional and physical comfort and increases the caregivers' ability to spend more time with their children, to interact with their clinical care team, and to participate in critical medical care decisions.

    $835,166 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $835,166.

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 ($771k) Expenses 100 ($826k) Net assets 100 ($5.9M)2018 Revenue 93 ($716k) Expenses 107 ($880k) Net assets 96 ($5.7M)2019 Revenue 115 ($884k) Expenses 107 ($882k) Net assets 99 ($5.9M)2020 Revenue 137 ($1.1M) Expenses 108 ($889k) Net assets 105 ($6.2M)2021 Revenue 105 ($813k) Expenses 110 ($907k) Net assets 106 ($6.3M)2022 Revenue 109 ($844k) Expenses 107 ($886k) Net assets 101 ($6.0M)2023 Revenue 129 ($993k) Expenses 113 ($929k) Net assets 104 ($6.2M)2024 Revenue 107 ($821k) Expenses 144 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($6.0M)2025 Revenue 144 ($1.1M) Expenses 150 ($1.2M) Net assets 102 ($6.0M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (150)Net assets (102)

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 $7.0M to $6.5M (−8%).

$7.0M
$6.5M
$6.5M
$6.8M
$6.8M
$6.4M
$6.6M
$6.4M
$6.3M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 19% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$55k
’17
−$164k
’18
$3k
’19
$166k
’20
−$94k
’21
−$42k
’22
$64k
’23
−$366k
’24
−$123k
’25
1.0
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

David Jacobsen

CEO

Board chair

Ashlee Duren

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed222125252324222218
Joined·+4+13+1+5+3+3+1+10
No longer listed·591725114
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $100k → $155k.

7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 OF AUGUSTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 OF AUGUSTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC.

40%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 46% · 2021 39% · 2022 35% · 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

41% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 10 states in all.

WA
IL
MI
CT
MO
VA
DE
SC
GA
FL

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

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’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378k 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 OF AUGUSTA 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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 13%Fundraising 19%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC?
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,532,824 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($612,892). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,532,824 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC?
Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $612,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing