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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC (North Dakota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,255,247 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($752,121). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley Inc does
Mission
Ronald mcdonald house charities of the red river valley supports sick kids and their families who are navigating the complexity and uncertainty of receiving medical care miles from home. By providing the comforts of home, families experience hospitality, community, care and hope while being able to fully focus on getting their child healthy and home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our ronald mcdonald house provides a welcoming place to stay for families to stay while their children are receiving critical medical care in our area. During 2025, we provided 666 family stays for a total of 6,158 nights of accommodation. The house is more than a place to sleep - it's a place of comfort, compassion and convenience for families. With the average family spending ten nights, we help reduce the financial stress of being away from home for medical care and allows families a chance to focus on what's most important - getting their child healthy and home.
$1,046,734 spent$74,918 earned by the program99% of program spendingLocated within the essentia health hospital in fargo, the ronald mcdonald family room provides family and caregivers a place to rest just steps away from their child's bedside. Our family room includes a kitchenette, shower, tv, snacks, and more. This space allows families some respite so they can be strong for their sick child throughout the long days of testing and treatment. This space is offered at no charge and is open daily for families in nicu and peds and served 611 families in 2025.
$6,024 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,052,758.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.4M to $8.1M (+27%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY 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. 2 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
Jill Christopher
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $136k → $287k.
10 of 24 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 THE RED RIVER VALLEY 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 RED RIVER VALLEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 RED RIVER VALLEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 35% · 2019 60% · 2020 41% · 2021 34% · 2022 52% · 2023 38% — 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
73% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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 RED RIVER VALLEY INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $497k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC holds deeper cash reserves 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
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In North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC (North Dakota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,255,247 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($752,121). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,255,247 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $752,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 24 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