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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 222 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,232,900 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($12,668,909). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 222
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $83M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California does
Mission
Rmhcsc provides comfort, care and support to children and families in southern california. Our vision is a community where children and their families embrace life and healing with a sense of hope, enthusiasm, courage and joy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California was founded in 1977 with a mission to provide comfort, care, and support to children and families in southern california. Today, the chapter operates six houses across the region in orange county, long beach, inland empire, los angeles, bakersfield, and pasadena that collectively offer accommodation at little or no cost to 157 families every night, 365 days a year. We partnered with more than 26 regional hospitals, helping fill a critical healthcare gap for families of children with life-threatening conditions. Staff and volunteers strive to offer every comfort of home to families staying at the house, including: comfortable rooms that can accommodate up to four members of child's family; communal kitchens where families can prepare "home-cooked" meals during their stay; activities and meals planned by volunteer groups; free laundry facilities; computer and entertainment areas; and a sprawling backyard with dining and play areas. A highly trained team of guest services associates confer daily with hospital staff and social workers, greet families as they check-in, and tend to families' daily needs to help minimize distractions…
$14,356,054 spent$450,448 earned by the program90% of program spendingCamp ronald mcdonald for good times offers an authentic camp experience to children who have been diagnosed with cancer, their families, and their siblings. Camp is grounded in the field's best practices, providing experiential learning opportunities for youth to practice skills that have proven to lead to success in career and life, including leadership, collaboration/team work, problem solving and initiative/self-direction. The year-round program features five week-long summer sessions, two holiday-weekend winter camps, and eight weekend family camps (two in spanish). A new camp program for teenswilderness outdoor leadership program (w.o.l.p.) is specifically designed to address a host of issues that affect adolescents who have received a cancer diagnosis. Activities like hiking, horseback riding, archery, and swimming help build motivation and resiliency in children facing difficult, long-term medical treatments, and create positive childhood memories for siblings who typically are denied such experiences due to their family's focus on a brother or sister's long-term medical care. Each participant may attend both a summer week and winter weekend session, along with their…
$1,681,033 spent$114,387 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,037,087.
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.
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 $89M to $114M (+29%).
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 5% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Doug Kanner
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.9M.
36 of 222 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 222 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 54%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 31% · 2019 30% · 2020 29% · 2021 37% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — 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
41% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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
- Rmhcsc Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House Esbt · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 222 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,232,900 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($12,668,909). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 222 organizations giving $33,232,900 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 121 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $12,668,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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.
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 222 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