Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Columbia Sc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570725736
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8032543181
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,545,064
- Expenses
- $1,239,759
- Assets
- $5,400,754
- Liabilities
- $105,590
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BETH LOWRIE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU APRIL 2024)
- TRACEY TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BEGIN DECEMBER 2024)
Highest reported compensation
- BETH LOWRIE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU APRIL 2024): $14,890 total reported compensation
- TRACEY TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BEGIN DECEMBER 2024): $10,698 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ronald mcdonald house charities columbia, sc creates, funds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
The ronald mcdonald family room extends the comfort of the ronald mcdonald house to prisma health children's hospital and provides an oasis from the hustle and bustle of hospital corridors and crowded waiting rooms. The family room offers refreshments, internet access, and most importantly, the helping hand of caring volunteers. The room is open 8-12:30 monday to friday. The pack-a-smile program started as a way for rmhc columbia, sc, to help more families during the pandemic by providing free bagged breakfast and lunch. The program was such a success and met such a need that it continues to this day. Families grab a pack-a-smile lunch quickly, safely, and without leaving the hospital. Pack-a-smile lunches are nutritious, including items such as a lunchable or uncrustable, fruit, something salty, something sweet, a bottle of water, and a word of encouragement from our community. For those families fortunate enough to stay with their child in the hospital, there are some disadvantages. Adequate sleep while always keeping an ear open to hear their child in the middle of the night. For this reason, we have started a treat trolley that travels room to room at prisma health children's hospital to offer coffee, tea, and light breakfast items.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.8%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.36; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.