North Dakota · Nonprofit
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck (North Dakota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,530,208 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($612,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck does
Mission
The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck (RMHC) is "to improve the lives of children and their families." In support of this mission, RMHC-Bismarck owns and operates the Ronald McDonald House, the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile and the RMHC School Based Sealant Program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ronald McDonald House Program: As its core program, RMHC owns and operates the Ronald McDonald House of Bismarck which provides temporary housing for the families of seriously ill children receiving medical treatment at the local medical facilities. Families are asked to contribute $20/night for their stay, but no one is turned away for inability to pay. The House serves pediatric patients and their families, age 0-18. In 2025 we served 98 families and since 1992 we have served 5,490 families.
$246,882 spent$39,833 earned by the program29% of program spendingRonald McDonald Care Mobile Program: The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile is a state-of-the-art mobile dental clinic that brings oral health care to underserved children in their own neighborhoods. The program serves children age 0-21 who do not have a regular dentist or who have not seen a dentist in the past two years. RMHC-Bismarck contracts with Bridging the Dental Gap to provide the dental services. We bill insurance when possible, but no child is turned away for inability to pay.Our goal for 2025 was to treat at least 1,000 children and we served 1,092 kids.
$615,568 spent$253,795 earned by the program71% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $862,450.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.8M to $3.2M (+15%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 11% · 2019 5% · 2020 20% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Brent Kleinjan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $91k → $111k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Bismarck’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 Bismarck leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 Bismarck.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 70% · 2019 74% · 2020 34% · 2021 60% · 2022 54% · 2023 48% — 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
55% of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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 Charities of Bismarck draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 of Bismarck runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck?
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck (North Dakota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,530,208 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($612,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,530,208 in grants to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $612,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck →
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 15 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