Missouri · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,282,209 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($14,155,265). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of St Louis does
Mission
By creating, finding and supporting programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children, ronald mcdonald house charities is working to better the lives of children and their families around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ronald mcdonald house charities of st. Louis fulfills their mission through the operation of sustainable programs that enable family-centered care, bridge access to quality health care, are a vital part of the health care continuum and strengthen families during difficult times. The following programs represent the core functions:ronald mcdonald house:when children must travel long distances to access top medical care, accommodation and support for families can be expensive or not readily available. The organization helps families stay close to their ill or injured child through the ronald mcdonald house program, which provides temporary lodging, meals and other support to children and their families. The program provides families with emotional and physical comfort and increases the caregivers' ability to spend more time with their child, to interact with their clinical care team and to participate in critical medical care decisions. A total of 628 families received low or no-cost housing during the year ended december 31, 2025.ronald mcdonald family room:when a child is critically ill, parents may be reluctant to leave the hospital. In order to provide comfort and support to…
$4,865,392 spentof which $297,891 as grants$396,346 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,865,392.
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 2022 to 2023, from $36M to $27M (−24%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 3%. 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 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.
Board chair
Chris Giarla
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $260k → $8.6M.
19 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 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 ST LOUIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 62% · 2019 36% · 2020 61% · 2021 56% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% — broadly stable.
“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 ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 ST LOUIS draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M 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.
Organizations like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS
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
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chouteau House Qalicb Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,282,209 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($14,155,265). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $32,282,209 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $14,155,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS 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.
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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 91 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