Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Bay Area
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943083711
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6504706000
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,011,148
- Expenses
- $1,044,738
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEE ANN FREEMAN (PRESIDENT)
- WAI-LING ENG (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARIA MELO (TREASURER)
- LEE ANN FREEMAN (PRESIDENT)
- WAI-LING ENG (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Make contributions and grants to organizations which engage in educating children, providing for the essential needs of children or carrying on research as to diseases and other disorders of children, or the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment thereof.
What it reported doing in 2017
Scholarship programs - local chapters of rmhc, with support from rmhc global offer scholarships to students from communities who face limited access to educational and career opportunities. These scholarships are part of rmhc's ongoing commitment to education. The rmhc national scholarship program is designed to provide financial assistance to eligible graduating high school seniors who face limited access to educational and career opportunities. Students are selected, and awards are distributed based on demonstrated academic achievement, financial need, and community involvement. General scholarships - $200,361during 2017, the rmhc global board of trustees elected to curtail the rmhc u.s. Scholarship matching grant program along with the program administration. The final grants were allocated in 2017 and the funds invested annually by the global office to support this program were reallocated to core program support and initiatives. As a result of this decision, the chapter board elected to sunset the scholarship program effective december 31, 2017.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -3.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $795K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.