Nevada · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS (Nevada) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,764,149 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas does
Mission
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas, inc. Is a nonprofit corporation under the laws of the state of nevada. This temporary "home away from home" provides housing, meals, transportation, and other support services for families who must travel to las vegas to seek critical medical treatment for their children. Rmhc also operates a ronald mcdonald family room right on the grounds of sunrise children's hospital, offering free meals, a comfortable lounge, hot showers and sleeping and napping accommodations to family members with children in the hospital. Another rmhc program, the ronald mcdonald care mobile, is a mobile state-of-the-art dental van that travels to rural communities and inner-city neighborhoods throughout southern nevada to serve children from low-income families who have little to no access to critical dental care. Financial support for rmhc of greater las vegas comes from individual donors, foundations, local companies and corporations, as well as fundraisi
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ronald mcdonald house program in las vegas, there are two ronald mcdonald houses (rmh) that keep families close when they need it most by providing comfortable and supportive housing, meals, and transportation for families who must travel to las vegas to receive critical medical treatment for their children. The original house, built in 1998, accommodates up to 12 families, or 72 family members, at one time. Families have their own bedroom suites with private bathrooms and common areas that include indoor and outdoor play areas for the children, an adult respite room, a fully-stocked pantry and laundry facility, lounge areas, and shaded backyard. The house provides home-cooked dinners, healthy snacks, and rides to the hospital every day, at no cost to the families. In 2025, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas wrapped its first full year of operations on its second house which serves larger families whose children have longer recovery times in the hospital. This facility, which consists of eight individual "patio homes" comes equipped with fully-stocked kitchens, living rooms, master and children's bedrooms and baths, individual laundry units, as well as outdoor…
$2,034,166 spent$14,785 earned by the program79% of program spendingRonald mcdonald care mobile in an effort to provide access to dental care for underserved children in rural southern nevada and inner-city las vegas, rmhc of greater las vegas, in partnership with nevada health centers, operates a ronald mcdonald care mobile program. This mobile dental office on wheels delivers care directly to children in their own neighborhoods. The care mobile makes scheduled visits to community health centers, collaborating non-profit partner sites, mcdonald's restaurants sites, and remote frontier communities. In 2025, the care mobile provided dental services, take-home oral hygiene supplies, and oral health education to 1,510 low-income and geographically-isolated children, ages 2-21, at no cost to their families. The care mobile program provided a total of 506,647 in dental services in low-income communities in 2025. More than 99% of the children served aboard care mobile in 2025 were on medicaid or had no insurance coverage at all.
$335,305 spent13% of program spendingRonald mcdonald family room rmhc also provides a temporary "home away from home" at the ronald mcdonald family room on the grounds of sunrise children's hospital in las vegas. The family room is approximately 1,400 square feet and is located directly down the hall from the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), keeping families closer than ever to their hospitalized babies. The family room offers a peaceful home-like environment where family members can take short breaks away from the often tense and chaotic medical setting, yet remain steps away from their baby's bedside. The family room offers overnight sleeping and daytime napping rooms, toiletries, showers, lockers, a comfortable lounge area with sofas, recliners, tv, children's games and books, a kitchenette, dining area, and computer workstations. Coffee, tea, and cold beverages, along with single-serve meals and snacks that are available at no cost to our families. In 2025, the ronald mcdonald family room provided a peaceful place of respite to 19,822 family members.
$215,686 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,585,157.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.6M to $10M (+33%).
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.
92% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Alyson Mccarthy
CEO
Board chair
Kellie Vander Veur
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $152k → $520k.
16 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 GREATER LAS VEGAS’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 GREATER LAS VEGAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 GREATER LAS VEGAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 39% · 2019 64% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 55% · 2023 35% — 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
46% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
52% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 GREATER LAS VEGAS's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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
- Rmhc Global · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS (Nevada) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,764,149 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $6,764,149 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS?
- ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing