Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Inc

“Ronald McDonald House Charities is a system of independent, separately registered public benefit organizations, referred to as "Chapters" by RMHC. RMHC does not have legal control over these Chapters, except the related tax-exempt organizations disclosed in Schedule R, Part II. Each Chapter must separately incorporate under the laws of its own state or country and obtain "charitable tax exempt" status (or the equivalent) under the laws of its own country.”

“RMHC does not have any employees and does not compensate any Trustees or Officers. As a result, per the Form 990 instructions, questions 15a and 15b, which relate to the process for determining compensation, are marked "No."”

“RMHC posts copies of its Form 990 and Form 990-T (if applicable) for the three most recent years on its website and provides copies of its Form 1023 upon request.”

“Chris Kempczinski, Katie Fitzgerald, Enrique Hernandez, Jr., Jon Banner, and Angela Steele, who are McDonald's Officers and Trustees, have business relationships with each other and with the following McDonald's employees, licensees, and suppliers: Rodney Jordan, Joanna Sabato, Shannon Duval, Stacey Bifero, J. Christopher Reyes, Eduardo Sanchez, Wayne Stingley, Nicole Harper Rawlins, Michael L. Thompson, and Jennifer Mann. - Business relationship”

“The day-to-day operations of the Charity are performed by employees of McDonald's Corporation that are dedicated to RMHC and who work under the direction of the independent governing board of Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc. McDonald's Corporation, as part of its Commitment to support RMHC donates certain staff positions, benefits, and human resource support without charge to the charity, therefore, McDonald's Corporation indirectly supervises personnel.”

“The Bylaws were updated as follows: (I) UPDATE THE PURPOSE OF RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES, (II) CREATE THREE CLASSES OF TRUSTEES, PERMANENT TRUSTEES, ROTATING TRUSTEES, AND CHAPTER ROTATING TRUSTEES, (III) DEFINE NUMBER, ELECTION, TENURE, AND VOTING RIGHTS OF EACH CLASS OF TRUSTEE (IV) UPDATE THE SCOPE OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.”

“The Board retains the services of an independent CPA firm to prepare and review the Form 990 before it is filed with the IRS. Once the firm has approved a draft of the form, the RMHC Chief Financial Officer presents it to the audit and risk committee. After review and approval of the Form 990 by the audit and risk committee, copies of the complete Form 990 and all accompanying schedules are provided to the remainder of the Board and Officers prior to filing it with the IRS.”

“Trustees, Officers, and key volunteers are annually required to complete a Conflict of Interest disclosure statement as a precursor to their service to RMHC. Potential conflicts are logged with and monitored by the Secretary of the Board and reviewed by a committee of the Board. Interested parties are not allowed to participate in Board discussions or vote on corresponding related party matters.”

“RMHC posts its By-Laws, Conflict of Interest Policy, and Audited Financial Statements on its website.”

“The President and CEO of RMHC holds a non-voting Trustee position on the Board of Trustees.”

“RMHC receives support from McDonald's Corporation (McDonald's) that includes certain employee services, benefits, human resource support and use of its facilities and equipment without cost to the Charity. The donated goods and services provided by McDonald's partially defray certain costs that RMHC would otherwise incur. Although the value of these goods and services is requied to be included in the audited financial statements of RMHC, some of it must be excluded from Form 990. The IRS specifically excludes donations of services and the use of facilities and equipment from total revenues in Part VIII and total expenses in Part IX of Form 990. In 2024, the total amount that was excluded from Form 990 was $37,301,917 of which $6,967,971 was donated services and use of facilities and equipment provided by McDonald's.”

“The day-to-day operations of the Charity are performed by employees of McDonald's Corporation that are dedicated to RMHC and who work under the direction of the independent governing board of Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc. McDonald's Corporation, as part of its commitment to support RMHC donates certain staff positions, benefits, and human resource support without charge to the Charity. In addition, numerous other volunteers assist with various fundraising events and other administrative and program support. The number of volunteers varies at any given time, be RMHC estimates the total number of volunteers to be approximately 125.”

“As a service to its U.S. Chapters, RMHC pays the financial advisory services and administrative cost of an investment program that allows participating Chapters access to highly diversified investment options that might otherwise not be available to them.”

“There are RMHC Donation Boxes at McDonald's restaurants where customers can deposit their change for the benefit of RMHC. The collection of RMHC Donation Box funds from McDonald's restaurants throughout the United States is centralized under one vendor management company, Integrigio, and RMHC pays Integrigo all collection fees. RMHC then remits 75% of the funds collected (net of 75% of the collection fees incurred) directly to each U.S. RMHC Chapter.”

“Consulting Fees - Total Expense: 7184961, Program Service Expense: 5747434, Management and General Expenses: 1256016, Fundraising Expenses: 181511; Professional Fees (Mcdonald's) - Total Expense: 5268092, Program Service Expense: 2426328, Management and General Expenses: 1495874, Fundraising Expenses: 1345890; Other Fees - Total Expense: 1532091, Program Service Expense: 1342776, Management and General Expenses: 189315, Fundraising Expenses: 0; Strategic Growth Consulting - Total Expense: 1500000, Program Service Expense: 1500000, Management and General Expenses: 0, Fundraising Expenses: 0;”

“Gain/Loss - Cash Surrender Value of Investments - -29967; Recovery of prior year expenses - 644138; Rounding - 2;”

“(a) New and expanding Ronald McDonald House programs and ongoing operating support (b) New Ronald McDonald Family Room programs (c) Build and support Ronald McDonald Care Mobile programs (d) New Chapter seed grants, general Chapter operating support, and capacity building grants to Chapters”