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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA (Illinois) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,964,257 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($11,618,926). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Nw Indiana does
Mission
We exist so families can get better together.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ronald mcdonald houses - our six houses and four family rooms provide a "home away from home" to keep families together. The houses are located near lurie children's hospital, university of chicago comer children's hospital, loyola university medical center, advocate children's hospital, northwestern medicine prentice women's hospital and northwestern medicine central dupage hospital. The family rooms are located inside edward hospital, advocate lutheran general hospital, lurie children's and university of chicago comer children's hospital. The houses and family rooms allow families to eat, sleep and find the emotional support they need just blocks from where their child is being treated. In 2024 we provided 58,015 family nights and respite care to 12,068 families, offering them care and comfort during their hours of greatest need. While we suggest a donation of $10 per night, no family is ever turned away if they are unable to pay.
$12,629,718 spent$383,600 earned by the program95% of program spendingCare mobile - our care mobile program, in partnership with advocate children's hospital, provides essential health service to over 3,160 children in underserved areas in a mobile environment. Children receive check-ups, immunizations and referrals for speciality care, including asthma, cardiology and allergies. Our goal is to find a "health care home" for all the children seen on the care mobile.
$651,279 spentof which $651,279 as grants5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,280,997.
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 2021 to 2022, from $72M to $68M (−6%).
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 7% · 2021 13% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Holly Buckendahl
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Marion Gross
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $319k → $2.7M.
30 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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 CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 32% · 2019 52% · 2020 53% · 2021 72% · 2022 46% · 2023 65% — 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
35% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
93% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA is better cushioned than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA (Illinois) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,964,257 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($11,618,926). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $18,964,257 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $11,618,926 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 114 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