Ronald Mcdonald House Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
710525252
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Little Rock, AR, USA
Phone
5013741956
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,655,738
Expenses
$4,694,224
Assets
$41,675,198
Liabilities
$2,740,459

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

34 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JANELL MASON (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JANELL MASON (CEO): $256,072 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Thanks to generous donors and volunteers we provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We do this through our three core programs, the ronald mcdonald house, the ronald mcdonald family room, and the ronald mcdonald care mobile. All services are provided free of charge.

What it reported doing in 2025

When families face a child's illness their lives stop instantly, and parents enter a world of fear and worry. Our ronald mcdonald house programs enable families with a hospitalized child to stay together and by their child's side, removing some financial and other concerns so they can focus on their hospitalized child. Our programs provide comprehensive support and ensure no family ever feels isolated.our ronald mcdonald houses, located in Arkansas (1 in little rock, 1 in ft. Smith, 1 in fayetteville) and Louisiana (1 in shreveport) and our ronald mcdonald house family rooms located in Arkansas (1 in little rock, 1 in rogers) provide families with a private room, meals, snacks, access to a fully equipped kitchen and pantry, laundry, indoor and outdoor play spaces, activities, and programs to support them. In 2025 our programs served 1,570 families. These families were provided with a free home away from home for a total of 19,205 nights; this also includes families for which we provided free nights in a local hotel (for families traveling to little rock for outpatient surgery or appointments). The average length of stay varied from 1 night (in the hotel) to 24 nights in our largest program, with some families staying over 200 nights. All services were provided free of charge.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.9%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $34.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 73.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.88; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.9% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 33 of 33 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $256K · 34 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.