Missouri · Nonprofit
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,111,212 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($3,342,784). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc does
Mission
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of kansas city is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the pandemic of 2020 rmhc-kc paid for hotel lodging for families for whom there was no room at one of the houses. This program continued through the end of 2023 but was discontinued beginning in 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Ronald mcdonald house charities of kansas city, inc. (rmhc-kc) operates three (3) ronald mcdonald houses at its cherry street campus in kansas city, providing temporary lodging for families of seriously ill children who must leave their own communities to seek medical care for their child. The organization's 1st ronald mcdonald house opened in 1981 near the university of kansas medical center at 1901 olathe blvd. (41st & state line road) in kansas city, kansas. The 11 bedroom facility served 581 families in the final full year of operations (2005) visiting from throughout the midwest. This house closed in march of 2006 when the new ronald mcdonald house in longfellow park opened for service. The organization's 2nd ronald mcdonald house, bernstein, opened in 1988 near children's mercy hospital at 2501 cherry street in kansas city, missouri. It is a 19-bedroom facility. The 3rd ronald mcdonald house, longfellow, opened in 2006. This house is a 41-bedroom facility located at 2502 cherry street across the street from the bernstein house. The 4th ronald mcdonald house, wylie, opened in 2015. This house is a 20-bedroom facility located at 2525 cherry street across the street from the…
$4,723,222 spent$754,989 earned by the program87% of program spendingRonald mcdonald house charities of kansas city, inc. (rmhc-kc) also provides respite in a home-like environment inside two (2) local hospitals. The family room inside children's mercy hospital (cmh) opened in 1997 with seven (7) overnight rooms for families whose children are receiving care in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. In august of 2024, after a full renovation of our family room program inside cmh, we renamed and opened a house inside the hospital. This program now serves 10 families overnight. In 2024 the house inside the hospital saw 6,762 visitors and provided 537 overnight stays in the sleeping rooms. All in-patient, intensive care unit families at cmh are eligible to use the house inside the hospital during the day and can also request one of the ten (10) overnight sleeping rooms. The family room inside overland park regional medical center (opr) opened in february 2022 and provides four (4) overnight rooms for families whose children are receiving care in the intensive care units. In 2024 there were 2,627 visits to the family room and 413 overnight stays in the four (4) sleeping rooms. The organization also hosted 1,797 visitors through its day pass…
$707,818 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,431,040.
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 $27M to $22M (−19%).
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: 2018 2% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Tami Greenberg
CEO
Board chair
Teresa Keller
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $215k → $1.9M.
14 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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 Kansas City Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 Kansas City Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 43% · 2019 44% · 2020 51% · 2021 39% · 2022 55% · 2023 54% — 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
50% of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 Kansas City Inc draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $714k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Kansas City Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City 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 Missouri
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
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc?
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,111,212 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($3,342,784). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $8,111,212 in grants to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $3,342,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 74 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