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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,206,593 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,764,856). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston South Carolina Inc does
Mission
We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare with a vision of a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, the house program served 1,512 guests staying over 10,373 nights with an average of 24 night stay per family; 82% of the patients were medicaid eligible. The true value of the rmhc charleston house program is how the families support each other during their most trying times.
$2,273,748 spent$525,274 earned by the program96% of program spendingIn 2025, our hospitality cart program served 94,938 people. This program serves families refreshments bedside and in waiting rooms at musc sj's children hospital and the summey medical pavilion.
$66,200 spent3% of program spendingBabyblooms: the birth of a baby born prematurely thrusts each family into an arena of multiple uncertainties and a wide range of emotions such as: fear of death, sadness, guilt, disappointment, fatigue, anxiety, joy, and surprise. Many families also encounter emotional, physical, and financial concerns as a result of, their child's hospitalization. Rmhc charleston developed baby blooms to offer appropriate support and resources designed to strengthen and assist families as they journey from the hospital to home. Through weekly learning and activity sessions, baby blooms seeks to enhance the parenting experience using evidenced based practices, while creating an opportunity to enrich bonding, infant care, and development.
$23,402 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,363,350.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $21M (+100%).
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.
90% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Kathleen Papadimitriou
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $68k → $402k.
21 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 34% · 2019 28% · 2020 45% · 2021 45% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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
45% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,206,593 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,764,856). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,206,593 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $1,764,856 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 59 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