New York · Nonprofit
AFRICAN REFUGE INC
AFRICAN REFUGE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,505 to it, the largest being THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION ($340,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $376k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $637k
- Net assets
- $9k
What African Refuge Inc does
Mission
African refuge is a community-based organization which aims to improve the quality of life for marginalized youth, families, senior citizens, immigrants and refugees.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
After-school youth program (sonyc middle school) is a safe space for youth to engage with friends. Services include tutoring, sports, leadership development, assistance with homework, mentoring, psychosocial support and arts and crafts projects. The mission of the youth and family program is to have a positive impact on refugees, immigrants and non-immigrant youth and families so that they can positively contribute to the socioeconomic development of society. Our program philosophy embodies collaborating with existing youth and family support programs, community building and family engagement.
$220,836 spent99% of program spendingOther services include: health program - focuses on health, education and nutrition including holiday baskets and weekly food pantry women entrepreneurs - provide support to women of all ages to start, maintain and expand small businesses. Youth adult internship program - provides services for persons aged 16-24 who are not in school and not working. Outcome is employment, military, work opportunity or training drop in center - resource for refugees, immigrants and low-income families health program - health, education and nutrition including holiday baskets and weekly food pantry other smaller programs include: opportunity youth and opportunity youth aftercare black lives matter homework help (k-5) child and adult care food program (cacfp) si police & community mental health program (including grief workshop, leader education, hotline and crisis intervention) summer youth internship park maintenance
$1,682 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,518.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $171k to $308k (+80%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
35% of AFRICAN REFUGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $60k → $70k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN REFUGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN REFUGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN REFUGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AFRICAN REFUGE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN REFUGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AFRICAN REFUGE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN REFUGE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN REFUGE INC?
- AFRICAN REFUGE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,505 to it, the largest being THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION ($340,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN REFUGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $636,505 in grants to AFRICAN REFUGE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN REFUGE INC?
- THE STATEN ISLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN REFUGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing