Texas · Nonprofit
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC (Texas) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,355,897 to it, the largest being RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ($1,991,170). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth Inc does
Mission
Provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Share A Night helps families stay close to their ill or injured child by providing 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. During 2025, 3,901 families were served by the Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth (RMHFW) programs including the Ronald McDonald House, the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Cook Childrens Medical Center, the Ronald McDonald House Day Program, and Hospitality Carts located inside local Fort Worth hospitals. Most families travel from Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
$3,120,555 spent$189,965 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe Day Program offers a supportive, home-like community that eases burdens for seriously ill children and their families by utilizing our common spaces and meals during weekdays from 10am-7pm.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,120,555.
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 $17M to $20M (+13%).
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 2% · 2021 13% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Johns
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 34 funders, grant income fell $857k → $491k.
17 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $560k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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 OF FORT WORTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 OF FORT WORTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 84% · 2019 20% · 2020 27% · 2021 51% · 2022 24% · 2023 12% — 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
48% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
75% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k 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 OF FORT WORTH 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 OF FORT WORTH 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 OF FORT WORTH INC?
- RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC (Texas) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,355,897 to it, the largest being RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ($1,991,170). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $5,355,897 in grants to RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC?
- RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,991,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 78 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