Georgia · Public charity
City of Refuge
CITY OF REFUGE offers life saving resources and life building tools to those in atlanta who are living on the margin.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $123,300
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,434,165
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations City of Refuge funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $2.6M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2.4M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $959k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $173k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $231k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| House of Cherith Inc | $7,135,634 | 6 | 63% |
| Men Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc | $2,352,380 | 2 | 44% |
| City of Refuge Communities Inc | $375,500 | 4 | 23% |
| City of Refuge - South Hill Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 78% |
| City of Refuge South Inc | $157,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Second Life Tennessee INC | $113,212 | 2 | 31% |
| City of Refuge Calhoun Inc | $68,140 | 4 | 12% |
| Thrive Together A Center for Family Solutions Inc | $56,049 | 1 | 6% |
| City of Refuge Hopewell Inc | $48,705 | 2 | 34% |
| Street Grace Inc | $45,945 | 1 | 10% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| House of Cherith Inc | $7,135,634 | 6 | 63% |
| Men Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc | $2,352,380 | 2 | 44% |
| City of Refuge Communities Inc | $375,500 | 4 | 23% |
| City of Refuge - South Hill Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 78% |
| City of Refuge South Inc | $157,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Second Life Tennessee INC | $113,212 | 2 | 31% |
| City of Refuge Calhoun Inc | $68,140 | 4 | 12% |
| Thrive Together A Center for Family Solutions Inc | $56,049 | 1 | 6% |
| City of Refuge Hopewell Inc | $48,705 | 2 | 34% |
| Street Grace Inc | $45,945 | 1 | 10% |
| City of Refuge Nw Georgia Inc | $30,669 | 1 | 97% |
| Feed My Lambs Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Straight Street Revolution Ministries Inc | $28,138 | 1 | 7% |
| City of Hope Athens Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Historic Hunter Hills Neighborhood Association | $17,727 | 1 | n/a |
| New Horizon Worship Center Inc | $9,700 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
City of Refuge supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: City of Refuge Communities Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About City of Refuge
- How much does City of Refuge give?
- City of Refuge reported 6 itemized grants totaling $2,574,645, out of $3,389,661 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does City of Refuge fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (66%), Crime & Legal (22%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are City of Refuge's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: House of Cherith Inc ($7.1M), Men Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc ($2.4M), City of Refuge Communities Inc ($376k).
- Does City of Refuge fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as City of Refuge?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include City of Refuge Communities Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is City of Refuge based?
- City of Refuge is based in GA.
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