South Carolina · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,329,543 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,645,867). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas Inc does
Mission
It is the mission of the ronald mcdonald house charities of the carolinas, inc. To provide for the physical and emotional well being of children and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas provides access to health care for families. The program includes lodging, meals, laundry facilities and round trip transportation to families who have children with special needs, critical injury or disease that is being treated at area medical facilities. Last year we provided family centered care to 4,758 families.
$1,027,711 spent$13,084 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,027,711.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.3M to $7.8M (−7%).
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 9% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Marti Spencer
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $116k → $288k.
12 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 THE CAROLINAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 THE CAROLINAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
97% 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 THE CAROLINAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 38% · 2019 74% · 2020 79% · 2021 71% · 2022 72% · 2023 63% — 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
22% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 THE CAROLINAS INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $423k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 THE CAROLINAS 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,329,543 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,645,867). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,329,543 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $1,645,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 29 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