Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Mississippi Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025 ronald mcdonald house charities of Mississippi, inc. Cared for families with children who are ill or injured through our corner-stone program ronald mcdonald house. Ronald mcdonald house provided temporary, home-away-from-home lodging for families who have children receiving specialized medical treatment. Our facility includes 16 private bedrooms with private baths; 4 kitchens; 2 laundry rooms; living room; television areas; play room; patio and courtyard. Most families are within walking distance of their hospitalized child. Along with lodging facilities, items such as food, parking, personal care items and laundry supplies are available to all families free of charge.the ronald mcdonald house operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Staff members, individual volunteers and groups assist with caring for the families and the facility. They provide a caring face and listening ear to the numerous families who are traumatized by the life-threatening illness of their child. Through various activities (both in-person and off-sight) over 500 volunteers gave of their time.we are fortunate and very grateful for in-kind gifts and services totaling $76,824 which aided tremendously in our providing the aforementioned services.we were honored to care for three hundred fifty-six (356) families within ronald mcdonald house during 2025. The average length of stay was 15 nights. Families primarily came from the state of Mississippi with several claiming residency in surrounding states. Guest families donated an average of twenty-six cents ($0.26) per room, per night for the year. Thus, individual, service group, and corporate donations are vital to caring for these families and children.in order to shorten the time patients were inside hospitals, we saw an increase in families staying at ronald mcdonald house the night before surgical procedures. Thus, families and children were able to relax the night before going to the hospital and didn't have to experience a long and early travel time prior to surgery. No matter the circumstance, the greatest things families receive while at ronald mcdonald house are the concern of others and the friendship of families going through the same thing - the devastation of having a critically-ill child.adding televisions to each family room highlighted improvements for 2025. These upgrades help maintain a comfortable atmosphere for all of our guests.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
• Fundraising efficiency: $33.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • 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: -31.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.54; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 19.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings