Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943108570
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7022524663
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,371,897
- Expenses
- $3,205,124
- Assets
- $12,508,840
- Liabilities
- $889,632
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALYSON MCCARTHY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ALYSON MCCARTHY (CEO): $145,081 total reported compensation
- SHANNON SACKS (COO): $105,076 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater las vegas, inc. Is a nonprofit corporation under the laws of the state of Nevada. This temporary "home away from home" provides housing, meals, transportation, and other support services for families who must travel to las vegas to seek critical medical treatment for their children. Rmhc also operates a ronald mcdonald family room right on the grounds of sunrise children's hospital, offering free meals, a comfortable lounge, hot showers and sleeping and napping accommodations to family members with children in the hospital. Another rmhc program, the ronald mcdonald care mobile, is a mobile state-of-the-art dental van that travels to rural communities and inner-city neighborhoods throughout southern Nevada to serve children from low-income families who have little to no access to critical dental care. Financial support for rmhc of greater las vegas comes from individual donors, foundations, local companies and corporations, as well as fundraisi
What it reported doing in 2025
Ronald mcdonald house program in las vegas, there are two ronald mcdonald houses (rmh) that keep families close when they need it most by providing comfortable and supportive housing, meals, and transportation for families who must travel to las vegas to receive critical medical treatment for their children. The original house, built in 1998, accommodates up to 12 families, or 72 family members, at one time. Families have their own bedroom suites with private bathrooms and common areas that include indoor and outdoor play areas for the children, an adult respite room, a fully-stocked pantry and laundry facility, lounge areas, and shaded backyard. The house provides home-cooked dinners, healthy snacks, and rides to the hospital every day, at no cost to the families. In 2025, ronald mcdonald house charities of greater las vegas wrapped its first full year of operations on its second house which serves larger families whose children have longer recovery times in the hospital. This facility, which consists of eight individual "patio homes" comes equipped with fully-stocked kitchens, living rooms, master and children's bedrooms and baths, individual laundry units, as well as outdoor playground and basketball court. Together, in 2025, both houses served 372 families, including 517 adults and children, for a total of 4,004 nights. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of the families who stayed at the two houses are from low- income households. Altogether, our families saved more than 734,814 in lodging rates, alone, in 2025, based on average nightly lodging rates in las vegas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.9; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.