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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.

$492k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$472kCrime & Legal$466kReligion$240kHousing & Shelter$45kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $328,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $491,768 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $163,668 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–50k4 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $253k
$33,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$150k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%E3 Ranch Foundation: $308k → 19%City of Refuge Calhoun: $37k → 12%City of Refuge Athens: $20k → 27%City of Refuge Pulaski: $96k → 14%City of Refuge Baltimore Inc: $15k → 6%City of Refuge Pulaski: $10k → 14%House of Cherith Inc: $23k → 13%House of Cherith Inc: $11k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of City of Refuge Communities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 0%.

City of Refuge Communities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 20% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$647k · 5 repeat orgs$630k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$647k
$597k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+57%

Still filing today

80%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalReligionHealthOther
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

  • MO
    Men Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $355k
  • TM
    The Mission Church
    2× · 2021–2024 · $113k
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE PULASKI INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $106k · revenue -27% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • ER
    E3 RANCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $308k · revenue +57%
  • GG
    GUARDIAN GROUP
    one grant, 2023 · $111k · revenue -8%
  • MM
    Midtown Mission Church
    one grant, 2022 · $54k
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
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
3
Refuge of Hope Ministries

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.

Religion
4
Misfit Mission

Misfits Mission purpose is to lead women to restoration in Christ through transitional living and godly counsel of Christian leaders.

Health
5
HouseofHopeRefugeofLoveInc

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

Human Services
6
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
7
Refuge for Women Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
City of Refuge

To provide a place of shelter and safety for children displaced by the drug epidemic and abuse.

Human Services
9
House of Refuge Ministries

The organization provides transitional and emergency housing in conjuction withsupportive services, case management and life skills training for homeless anddisadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter
10
Rescue 1 Global

Our mission is to counter human trafficking and provide holistic restoration: at home and around the world.

International
11
City of Refuge Inc

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,…

International
12
Refuge Coffee Co

Refuge coffee co. exists to serve the global community in clarkston, ga by training and employing relocated refugees.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Refuge; 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.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

E3 RANCH FOUNDATION INC: $307,727 · Human ServicesE3 RANCH FOUNDATION INCCITY OF REFUGE PULASKI INC: $105,833 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGE PULASKI INCCITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INCHouse of Cherith Inc: $33,500 · Human ServicesHouse of Cherith IncCITY OF HOPE ATHENS INC: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesMen Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc: $355,070 · Crime & LegalMen Opposing Sex Trafficking IncGUARDIAN GROUP: $111,000 · Crime & LegalGUARDIAN GROUPThe Mission Church: $113,000 · OtherThe Mission ChurchMidtown Mission Church: $53,700 · OtherMidtown Mission Churc…Louisiana Church of God: $17,500 · OtherLouisiana Church of G…New Day Christian Center: $16,000 · OtherNew Day Christian Cen…Watchmen Security Safety Advocates: $12,000 · OtherCity of Refuge New Orleans: $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherCITY OF REFUGE: $39,400 · ReligionNoble Clay Ministries Inc: $12,200 · Health
Human Services$519,060Crime & Legal$466,070Other$239,700Religion$39,400Health$12,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMen Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc: $355,070 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetE3 RANCH FOUNDATION INC: $307,727 over 1y, 15% of budgetGUARDIAN GROUP: $111,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE PULASKI INC: $105,833 over 2y, 31% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $39,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE CALHOUN INC: $37,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHouse of Cherith Inc: $33,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCITY OF HOPE ATHENS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE BALTIMORE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNoble Clay Ministries Inc: $12,200 over 1y, 4.1% 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 RefugeNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
City of RefugeGA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Communities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City of Refuge Communities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to City of Refuge Communities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to City of Refuge Communities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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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