Tennessee · Nonprofit
Ashas Refuge
Ashas Refuge (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,540 to it, the largest being WISEHEART FOUNDATION INC ($181,669). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $372k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $455k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Ashas Refuge does
Mission
Inspired by the love of Jesus, Ashas Refuge restores hope, dignity, and confidence by providing trauma-informed immigration support, education, crisis-response services, and job-skills training through apprenticeship opportunities for displaced individuals and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General Refugee / Asylee Assistance, Family Services and Immigration Support: Ashas Refuge provided trauma-informed family services and immigration navigation to displaced individuals and families. Services included cultural orientation; assistance with class enrollment and referrals to English/ESL programs; connections to one-on-one tutors and mentors; conversational English groups; transportation to essential appointments; interpretation assistance; guidance navigating medical, educational, and community systems; assistance with rental housing navigation; and job search support, including employment research, job applications, coaching, and onboarding assistance. Through partnerships with several Memphis-area immigration law firms, the organization provided immigration navigation and case support related to family reunification, asylum, lawful permanent residency, and naturalization. In 2025, the organization served approximately 1,200 individuals.
$275,941 spent$186,325 earned by the program99% of program spendingNext Generation Youth and Young Adult Program: Ashas Refuge provided educational mentoring and support to youth and young adults working toward high school completion, college readiness, and employment. Services included assistance with enrollment in online and partner high school diploma programs, provision of supplies, technology orientation, connections to tutors and mentors, and life-skills and job-readiness guidance. The program also offered internship opportunities for college students. In 2025, the organization served approximately five individuals through its Next Generation program.
$1,433 spent$1,100 earned by the program1% of program spendingApprenticeship and Job Skills Training Program: Ashas Refuge provided job-skills training and paid apprenticeship opportunities for displaced individuals pursuing employment and career pathways. Apprentices received hands-on training, mentorship, and work experience in areas such as immigration services, community outreach, administration, office and reception skills, data entry, accounting, and other vocational tracks. The program emphasized workplace readiness, life-skills development, business communication, and community service. In 2025, the organization served approximately seven apprentices through its apprenticeship program.
$1 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $277,375.
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 $132k to $34k (−74%).
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.
50% of Ashas Refuge’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jamie K Jones
Founder and Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $70k → $27k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Ashas Refuge’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
Ashas Refuge leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Ashas Refuge.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 35% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of Ashas Refuge's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of Ashas Refuge's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $81k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Ashas Refuge runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ashas Refuge
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Ashas Refuge: 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 Ashas Refuge?
- Ashas Refuge (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,540 to it, the largest being WISEHEART FOUNDATION INC ($181,669). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ashas Refuge have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $454,540 in grants to Ashas Refuge, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ashas Refuge?
- WISEHEART FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $181,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ashas Refuge find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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