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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$7.1MCrime & Legal$2.4MHuman Services$672kCommunity Improvement$393kReligion$68kHealth$49kEnvironment$31kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $2,574,645, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,389,661 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $815,016 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $203k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
$123,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSE OF CHERITH INC$1,434,165
MEN OPPOSING SEX TRAFFICKING INC$883,880
CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC$123,300
CITY OF REFUGE SOUTH HILL$80,000
CITY OF REFUGE SOUTH INC$28,300
CITY OF HOPE ATHENS$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFFT: $56k → 4%STREET GRACE: $46k → 9%City of Refuge - Calhoun: $50k → 12%HOUSE OF CHERITH INC: $1.6M → 13%CITY OF HOPE ATHENS: $25k → 27%CITY OF REFUGE SOUTH HILL: $80k → 19%HOUSE OF CHERITH INC: $1.5M → 13%CITY OF REFUGE SOUTH HILL: $80k → 19%HOUSE OF CHERITH INC: $1.4M → 13%House of Cherith: $1.1M → 13%HOUSE OF CHERITH INC: $560k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 10 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$10M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HO
    House of Cherith Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +26% · 63% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $376k · revenue +180%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $68k · revenue +448%

Funded once

  • TT
    Thrive Together A Center for Family Solutions Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue -35%
  • SG
    Street Grace Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +482%
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE NW GEORGIA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $31k · 97% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
2
HouseofHopeRefugeofLoveInc

Restoring our youth by turning trauma into triumph for female suvivors of child sex trafficking in Georgia.

Human Services
3
City of Refuge Sacramento

City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…

Human Services
4
House of Refuge Inc

Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens

Religion
5
Refuge City

Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…

Human Services
6
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
7
City of Refuge Columbia Inc

Supporting the mission, vision and work of Cuidad Refug

International
8
Hope City Inc
Youth Development
9
Rescue Hill Nazarene Compassionate Ministry Center

Rescue Hill helps survivors of human trafficking with recovery services and resources in a safe environment. Rescue Hill offers a stabilization home for survivors and their small children as well as advocacy services.

Human Services
10
7 Bridges to Recovery Corporat

To rescue our brothers and sisters off the streets

—
11
The Remnant House

The remnant house, located in lee county, mississippi provides men and women with a faith-based christian transitional living home and recovery program. our christ-centered one year transitional living recovery program allows an individual…

Health
12
City of Refuge Fellowship a Nonprof

To lead people in unity and reconciliation with God and with one another. II Corinthian 5 Speak of Ministry or Reconciliation, We strive to fulfill that ministry through intercessory prayer, the word of God and Worship. God has created all…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Refuge Baltimore Inc; the most unlike its peers is Historic Hunter Hills Neighborhood Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

House of Cherith Inc: $7,135,634 · Human ServicesHouse of Cherith Inc+5 more: $355,134 · Human ServicesMen Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc: $2,352,380 · Crime & LegalMen Opposing Sex Traffic…CITY OF REFUGE SOUTH INC: $157,300 · OtherSecond Life Tennessee INC: $113,212 · OtherCITY OF REFUGE THOMASTON GA: $57,706 · OtherCITY OF REFUGE NW GEORGIA INC: $30,669 · OtherTHE MISSION CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherFEED MY LAMBS INC: $30,000 · Other+2 more: $23,331 · OtherCITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC: $375,500 · Public BenefitCity of Refuge Hopewell Inc: $48,705 · HealthSTRAIGHT STREET REVOLUTION MINISTRIES INC: $28,138 · ReligionHISTORIC HUNTER HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $17,727 · Community Improvement
Human Services$7,490,768Crime & Legal$2,352,380Other$442,218Public Benefit$375,500Health$48,705Religion$28,138Community Improvement$17,727

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouse of Cherith Inc: $7,135,634 over 6y, 63% of budgetMen Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc: $2,352,380 over 2y, 44% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC: $375,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE - SOUTH HILL INC: $160,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetSecond Life Tennessee INC: $113,212 over 2y, 31% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INC: $68,140 over 4y, 12% of budgetThrive Together A Center for Family Solutions Inc: $56,049 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCity of Refuge Hopewell Inc: $48,705 over 2y, 34% of budgetStreet Grace Inc: $45,945 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE NW GEORGIA INC: $30,669 over 1y, 97% of budgetFEED MY LAMBS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTRAIGHT STREET REVOLUTION MINISTRIES INC: $28,138 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE ATHENS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

City of Refuge Commun…The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
City of Refuge Communities IncGA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization City of Refuge funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City of Refuge. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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