Tennessee · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,746,815 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($3,164,936). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Nashville Tennessee Inc does
Mission
To keep families close by providing essential resources and a home-away-from-home for families of critically ill children receiving inpatient or outpatient medical care at a nashville area hospital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Programs run by ronald mcdonald house charities, the 36-bedroom ronald mcdonald house and the ronald mcdonald family room on the 5th floor of the monroe carell jr. Children's hospital at vanderbilt offer a place for parents and family members to relax, refresh and experience the comforts of home while staying close to their sick child.in 2025, 432 families were served. These families came from 95 counties in tennessee and 66 counties in kentucky, as well as 41 other states, 2 u.s. Territories and 14 foreign countries.the nashville house requests that families pay $15 per night. However, the primary goal is to keep these families together and never refuse service because a family is unable to pay. In 2025, 86% of the families served could not afford to pay anything to stay in our house. The average monthly occupancy in 2025 was 76% and the average length of stay was 21 nights. Our amazing volunteers, meal groups and supporters provided 439 meals for families in 2025.the family room includes a comfortable seating area, a kitchen stocked with snacks, a children's play area, a half bath and the support of caring staff and volunteers. The family room has served more than 452,414…
$1,412,672 spent$15,184 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,412,672.
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 $24M to $26M (+9%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE 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 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
Elizabeth Piercy
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $216k → $1.1M.
15 of 44 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 NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 58% · 2019 33% · 2020 51% · 2021 49% · 2022 41% · 2023 61% — 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
48% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $865k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% 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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,746,815 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($3,164,936). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $5,746,815 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $3,164,936 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 44 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