Evgeni Malkin and local McDonald’s restaurants donated $86,620 to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh and Morgantown this season through his 2025-26 “I’m Score for Kids” initiative. Malkin scored 61 points and pledged to donate $710 for each regular-season point, producing a personal contribution of $43,310 that was matched by local McDonald’s restaurants.
The latest donation lifted the four-season total from the partnership to $370,620, a figure that reflects how tightly the program is tied to Malkin’s on-ice production. The initiative began before the 2022-23 season and has turned each point he scores into a direct funding stream for families staying near Pittsburgh and Morgantown while children receive medical care.
That support lands in a year when RMHC Pittsburgh and Morgantown served 822 families and provided 21,059 nights of stay in 2025. Families came from 42 counties in West Virginia, 41 counties in Pennsylvania, 37 states and five countries, underscoring how far some of those stays reach. The charity said the help brings comfort and reassurance to families facing a difficult medical journey.
Matt Alamo said McDonald’s owner-operators in Western Pennsylvania are honored to work with Malkin to help families who need a place to call home while their children are treated, and he pointed to customer support through Round-Up and Shamrock Shake donations as part of the broader effort. The local footprint is substantial: all 207 McDonald’s restaurants in the Three Rivers area are owned and operated by local businessmen and women, and each location employs 50 to 100 community residents.
The partnership has now settled into a pattern that is easy to follow and hard to ignore. When Malkin produces, the charity benefits. When local McDonald’s matches, the total grows. For RMHC Pittsburgh and Morgantown, that means another season of cash arriving precisely where families need it most.