Kentucky · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,417,709 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,063,276). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $531k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tristate Inc does
Mission
To provide benefits to local youth in area communities by donating money to various local tax-exempt organizations and programs (I.e. Boy scouts, dare programs, schools, shriners hospital, libraries, museums, ronald mcdonald houses, and various other youth programs)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To provide benefits to local youth in area communities by donating money to various local tax-exempt organizations and programs (I.e. Boy scouts, dare programs, schools, shriners hospital, libraries, museums, various other youth programs)
$1,725,985 spentof which $960,955 as grants100% of program spendingTo provide assistance to ronald mcdonald houses outside the tri-state service area for the benefit of families with children needing extended stays in a hospital.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,725,985.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Michael Love
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $24k → $411k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TRISTATE 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 TRISTATE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 TRISTATE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 66% · 2021 93% · 2022 74% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 TRISTATE 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,417,709 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,063,276). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,417,709 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $1,063,276 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TRISTATE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 4 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