Maryland · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,215,338 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($4,223,800). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $50M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maryland Inc does
Mission
Ronald mcdonald house charities of maryland, inc. Provides a home away from home for seriously ill children and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ronald mcdonald house charities of maryland, inc. Owns and operates the ronald mcdonald house. The maryland ronald mcdonald house is located in the city of baltimore. The five hospitals primarily served by the ronald mcdonald house are university of maryland medical system, johns hopkins hospital, sinai hospital, mt. Washington pediatric hospital and kennedy krieger institute. There are no specific geographic parameters regarding service, as the house serves families from every part of the state of maryland as well as all corners of the world. To be eligible to stay at the house, a family must have a child age 21 or younger receiving treatment at any one of the area hospitals. The families must be referred by a social worker from the hospital to stay at the house. The house has 55 rooms, including 9 suites and 46 standard guest rooms. The house also has:- strategically-designed community gathering spaces that promote interaction among guests- accessible kitchen and dining room- meditation room for solitude and respite- teen and young adult room- student classroom space and family business center with computers, printers, and internet accessibility- outdoor playground with an…
$3,753,622 spentof which $8,787 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,753,622.
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 $30M to $50M (+65%).
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: 2021 8% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC’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. 1 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
Sandra Pagnotti
President and CEO
Board chair
Steve Martin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 44 funders, grant income fell $3.1M → $1.3M.
22 of 92 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $120k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hope Has a New Address Rmh 20 Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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 MARYLAND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% 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 MARYLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 50% · 2019 20% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — 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
49% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
78% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 MARYLAND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ronald McDonald House Global · exempt
- Hope Has a New Address Rmh 20 Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,215,338 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($4,223,800). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $13,215,338 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,223,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 92 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