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RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE INC

EIN 58-1510276 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2025
$1,232,685
Expenses 2025
$1,352,923

Program services were 74.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E86Z
Classification
1000
Street
1705 CLINCH AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

We offer temporary lodging for families having critically ill children. See page Part III for more information.

  • Our Main Purpose - Housing Families: The Ronald McDonald House offers temporary lodging for families having critically ill children, 21 years of age or younger, being treated in area hospitals. In our fourty years of operation we have served approximately 61,500 people. Beside the obvious financial advantage of staying at our home-away-from-home where we gladly waive the $5.00 per night requested donation if it is prohibitive, there is the additional benefit of meeting other families who are experiencing similar medical problems with their children. Its a place where they can draw additional comfort and support from friendships that are born here. In addition to lodging, our supportive community helps provide all the comforts of home such as food, laundry facilities, transportation,free wi-fi...all of which are included in their stay. We can accomodate 65 people or 15 families in the two houses we operate. By years end, we had received referrals from four different medical facilities that represented families from 12 various states and 41 counties from across Tennessee. What brought these people to our doors? The most prevalent reasons were newborn complications such as prematurity and respiratory issues, cancer, and brain and spinal issues. There were as manyother medical conditions that also brought families. Although we have no length of stay restrictions, the average length of stay was 9 days. As long as a child is hospitalized, family members including extended family and siblings have been welcome.

    Expenses $654,346

  • Our Secondary Purpose - Grantmaking: One of the hallmarks of the McDonalds corporation over the years has been their unqualified commitment to children. As a legacy to McDonalds founder, Ray Kroc, Ronald McDonald Childrens Charities or RMCC was founded to champion philanthropic groups worldwide that were dedicated to the betterment of children. In an effort to streamline their organization to make a greater impact on a local level, the Global McDonalds office requested that RMCC and Ronald McDonald Houses across the country consolidate which was the genesis of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Knoxville, TN, Inc. in 1996. Funding and operating the Knoxville Ronald McDonald House will always remain the number one priority of the non-profit and monies raised under the auspices of supporting the Ronald McDonald House will be used exclusively for that purpose and are maintained in a separate account.

    Expenses $355,346 · Grants $293,700

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Justin Israel

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Laura Barnes

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Malinda Harris

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jo Ann Goodrich

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lynn Arnwine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mark Brodd

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Joe Burger III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jeff Allen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Joe Childs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Eric Cochran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Cheryl Cooper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ryan Edens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Julie Howard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Joanne Huddleston

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Tyra Haag

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carney Ivy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amber Knapper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Stephanie Lynema

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Meg Millikan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bill Terry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rebecca Pierce

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Matt Schaefer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Cathy Shuck

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Stephanie Strutner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Blake Valentine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,232,685
    Expenses
    $1,352,923
    Contributions
    $1,070,815
    Grants paid
    $293,700
  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,232,685
    Expenses
    $1,352,923
    Contributions
    $1,070,815
    Grants paid
    $293,700
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,357,421
    Expenses
    $1,219,154
    Contributions
    $1,238,221
    Grants paid
    $207,882
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $985,156
    Expenses
    $1,063,084
    Contributions
    $883,094
    Grants paid
    $167,170
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,218,275
    Expenses
    $909,386
    Contributions
    $1,054,449
    Grants paid
    $159,068

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $944,662
    Expenses
    $778,962
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,250,146

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $979,295
    Expenses
    $798,563
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,899,778

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $731,806
    Expenses
    $858,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,619,134

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $415,188
    Expenses
    $920,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,741,034

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,738,265
    Expenses
    $871,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,718,858

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $749,003
    Expenses
    $860,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,988,363

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $868,936
    Expenses
    $944,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,888,092

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $722,918
    Expenses
    $850,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,998,864

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,482
    Expenses
    $869,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,939,025

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $825,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,404,456

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.