· Public charity
City of Refuge Communities Inc
City of Refuge Communities Mission is to enhance and encourage communities to develop by providing professional and policy development technical assistance and financial support.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $328,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $491,768 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $163,668 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Men Opposing Sex Trafficking LLC | $164,500 |
| The Mission Church | $88,000 |
| City of Refuge West | $33,400 |
| City of Refuge Athens | $20,000 |
| Noble Clay | $12,200 |
| City of Refuge Pulaski | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $519k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of City of Refuge Communities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MOMen Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $355k
- TMThe Mission Church2× · 2021–2024 · $113k
- COCITY OF REFUGE PULASKI INC2× · 2023–2024 · $106k · revenue -27% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- ERE3 RANCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $308k · revenue +57%
- GGGUARDIAN GROUPone grant, 2023 · $111k · revenue +5%
- MMMidtown Mission Churchone grant, 2022 · $54k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
Misfits Mission purpose is to lead women to restoration in Christ through transitional living and godly counsel of Christian leaders.
Restoring our youth by turning trauma into triumph for female suvivors of child sex trafficking in Georgia.
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…
Refuge for women inc is a faith-based organization that provides housing, counseling, and life and work skills training for women who have escaped human trafficking or sexual exploitation.
To provide a place of shelter and safety for children displaced by the drug epidemic and abuse.
The organization provides transitional and emergency housing in conjuction withsupportive services, case management and life skills training for homeless anddisadvantaged people.
Our mission is to counter human trafficking and provide holistic restoration: at home and around the world.
To provide food, shelter, education, spiritual guidance, and any other type of appropriate assistance to orphaned, abandoned, and trafficked children and single mothers that are in need within the country of ghana. through discipleship,…
Refuge coffee co. exists to serve the global community in clarkston, ga by training and employing relocated refugees.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Refuge and the most unlike its peers is Noble Clay Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Men Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc ↗
- Who funds E3 RANCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN GROUP ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE PULASKI INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INC ↗
- Who funds House of Cherith Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Noble Clay Ministries Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: City of Refuge · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization City of Refuge Communities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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