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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,326,548 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($2,771,939). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$15M
Funders on record
87
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$50M
46/87 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego Inc does

Mission

Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego, Inc. (RMHC-SD) provides comfort, strength, and stability by offering a home-away-from-home for families with children being treated for serious, often life-threatening conditions at local San Diego hospitals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rmhc-sd is a home-away-from-home for families with children being treated for serious, often life-threatening conditions at local san diego hospitals. In 2024 the organization operated a main house facility with 47 guest suites and a north house with 8 guest suites. In 2024, the organization further continued the construction of an additional 27 guest suites which were completed and placed into operation on july 1, 2025.

    $5,943,014 spent$331,785 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,943,014.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.7M) Expenses 100 ($6.6M) Net assets 100 ($26M)2018 Revenue 98 ($8.6M) Expenses 117 ($7.7M) Net assets 99 ($25M)2019 Revenue 85 ($7.4M) Expenses 107 ($7.1M) Net assets 108 ($27M)2020 Revenue 88 ($7.7M) Expenses 94 ($6.2M) Net assets 124 ($32M)2021 Revenue 142 ($12M) Expenses 102 ($6.7M) Net assets 151 ($39M)2022 Revenue 121 ($11M) Expenses 119 ($7.8M) Net assets 150 ($38M)2023 Revenue 141 ($12M) Expenses 137 ($9.1M) Net assets 172 ($44M)2024 Revenue 177 ($15M) Expenses 149 ($9.8M) Net assets 196 ($50M)
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Revenue (177)Expenses (149)Net assets (196)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $50M to $55M (+11%).

$37M
$35M
$37M
$41M
$46M
$45M
$50M
$55M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
’17
$832k
’18
$330k
’19
$1.5M
’20
$5.7M
’21
$2.7M
’22
$3.2M
’23
$5.6M
’24
5.7
months of
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

Charles Day

President & CEO

Board chair

Eric Eastham

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2928302624232630
Joined·+6+5+1+4+4+8+6
No longer listed·7356552
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $187k → $1.8M.

22 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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: $2.4M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rady Children's Hospital San Diego). These are real filings, and they are not money RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC raised.

From the IRS filings of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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 SAN DIEGO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

79% 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 SAN DIEGO INC.

21%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 16% · 2019 60% · 2020 22% · 2021 47% · 2022 34% · 2023 28% — 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

39% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

56% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.9M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside California, across 15 states.

WA
MN
IL
NY
IA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 12%Fundraising 28%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 32 states

AK
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC?
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,326,548 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($2,771,939). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC have?
IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $13,326,548 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC?
Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $2,771,939 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 87 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