Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Ozarks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431371143
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4178753500
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,422,717
- Expenses
- $1,729,878
- Assets
- $9,092,387
- Liabilities
- $34,920
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BONNIE KELLER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BONNIE KELLER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $185,401 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children in the ozarks, primarily through the ronald mcdonald house and ronald mcdonald care mobile programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our second core program is the ronald mcdonald care mobile, a mobile dental clinic lovingly known as the tooth truck, is a mobile dental clinic that brings essential dental care directly to at-risk children in springfield and nearby communities. Serving children who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches, the tooth truck provides treatment and education at no cost, regardless of medicaid status. Since its first day on the road, july 8, 2002, the tooth truck has delivered over 70,000 dental appointments to more than 34,000 children, with care valued at nearly $26 million. In 2024 alone, the tooth truck provided 3,077 dental appointments for 2,017 children, delivering more than $2.15 million in care. Our commitment to long-term impact includes the healthy smiles academy, a daily toothbrushing program that began in 2011 and was reinstated in fall 2023 after a covid-related pause. In 2024, 1,708 young children benefited from this preventive care initiative. Together, our programs provide comfort, hope, and vital services right where families and children need them most.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.4%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 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: 28.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.26; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.4% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $185K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.