Tennessee · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,138,772 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,041,329). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Southern Appalachian Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc does
Mission
To provide a "temporary" home-away-from-home for children and families of seriously ill children receiving medical care in any local hospital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The southern appalachian ronald mcdonald house (hereafter referred to as house) is a program of the southern appalachian ronald mcdonald house charities, (charities), governed by a board of directors and managed by an executive director, director of house operations and staff who over-see the day to day operations. Guest families and children served by the house come from a radius of 125 miles outside the city limits of johnson city, tn. (includes counties located in ne tennessee, sw virginia, eastern kentucky and west virginia). The house is in johnson city, tn but is a regional facility. As of december 2025, families from southwest virginia continue to use the house the most. Southwest virginia 50% northeast tennessee 48% eastern kentucky 0% misc. States 2% the house is 14,000 sq. Feet, has 10 bedrooms/private baths with a kitchen, laundry room, tv rooms and play areas as common areas shared by all guest families. Evening meals are provided by church groups, civic organizations, fraternal groups, families/friends or restaurants at least 25 out of 30 days. Breakfast and lunch foods are available for families to prepare at their leisure. Children and families of seriously ill…
$520,522 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $520,522.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.7M to $3.5M (+31%).
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: 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Dewayne Dickens
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $159k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES 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
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 85% — 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
38% of SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Against its field
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC?
- SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,138,772 to it, the largest being Ronald McDonald House Global ($1,041,329). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,138,772 in grants to SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC?
- Ronald McDonald House Global is the largest funder on record, with $1,041,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 10 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