Georgia · Nonprofit
CITY OF REFUGE
CITY OF REFUGE (Georgia) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,095,192 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,499,180). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 197
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $42M
What City of Refuge does
Mission
City of Refuge offers life saving resources and life building tools to those in atlanta who are living on the margin.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cor housing programs include 40 rooms on campus with full wrap-around support for women and children experiencing homelessness; a men's supportive housing program with 31 units for veterans, re-entering citizens, and youth ages 18-24; master leases on 15 affordable permanent supportive housing units directly across the street, a welcome home with 4 rooms for survivors, and three additional homes available as co-housing just around the corner. In 2024, cor housed 256 men, women, and children, partnered to help house an additional 217 women and children, and fielded more than one thousand housing requests each month. We celebrated 45 graduates moving into stable, independent housing.
$3,064,077 spentof which $113,365 as grants$53,597 earned by the program20% of program spendingHealth & wellness: cor serves nutritious meals three times daily and provides physical fitness and life skills training opportunities. A partnership with mercy care gives onsite access to medical, dental, and health services. In 2024, cor served 281,578 meals and partnered to provide 11,902 medical services. City of Refuge south also enabled participants to benefit from 1,916 therapeutic hours.
$1,865,834 spentof which $271,371 as grants$6,950 earned by the program12% of program spendingVocational training: cor offers vocational training classes, job readiness services, and regular job fairs to help people find meaningful employment. Reentry programming provides additional individualized services for those involved with the criminal justice system. In 2024, cor supported 100 returning citizens, graduated 381 students from vocational training, and placed 819 community members in jobs.
$3,126,741 spentof which $68,030 as grants21% of program spendingCor provides year-round academic, enrichment, and social-emotional support for children from birth through high school. Cor also provides scholarships for neighborhood students pursuing college and post-secondary education. In 2024, cor delivered tuition-free school for 150 students in grades 3-12, provided summer camp programming for 236 children and afterschool programming for 191 students in grades k-12, helped 88 children benefit from full-day preschool, and awarded 19 scholarships for post-secondary education. (please note some students were served in school, afterschool, and summer programs.) our school maintained a 100% graduation rate.
$3,319,975 spentof which $447,869 as grants22% of program spendingHuman slavery: City of Refuge partners and supports house of cherith for the human slavery program. The program consists of an emergency and long-term residential trauma-informed care program for rescued survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking, with a focus on recovery and restoration. In 2021, house of cherith housed women and provided food, nutrition, counseling, case management, substance abuse treatment and vocational training. They achieved healing and life success.
$3,718,540 spentof which $2,489,026 as grants25% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,095,167.
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 $21M to $40M (+91%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 6% · 2023 11% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of CITY OF REFUGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Bruce Deel
CEO
Board chair
Jon Bridges
Chairman of board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 98 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $12M.
26 of 197 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 CITY OF REFUGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 197 funders by total. 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
CITY OF REFUGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
49% 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 CITY OF REFUGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 49% · 2019 47% · 2020 16% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — 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
56% of CITY OF REFUGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
83% of CITY OF REFUGE's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
CITY OF REFUGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 249 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 249 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CITY OF REFUGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.1M on record.
- Department of Labor$7.9M
- Department of Justice$1.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CITY OF 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- City of Refuge Support Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY OF 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 CITY OF REFUGE?
- CITY OF REFUGE (Georgia) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,095,192 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,499,180). 121 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY OF REFUGE have?
- IRS filings report 197 organizations giving $53,095,192 in grants to CITY OF REFUGE, 121 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY OF REFUGE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,499,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY OF REFUGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 197 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing