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CITY OF REFUGE

CITY OF REFUGE (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,900 to it, the largest being OUR LADY OF AMERICA MINISTRIES INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$0
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$203k
Net assets
$430k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What City of Refuge does

Mission

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

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. House up to 20 children, providing food, shelter, clothing and a safe place.

    $18,427 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Food pantry distributed food, paid utility bills, and paid medication for the needy.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,427.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($344k) Expenses 100 ($293k) Net assets 100 ($36k)2021 Revenue 552 ($1.9M) Expenses 581 ($1.7M) Net assets 653 ($234k)2022 Revenue 661 ($2.3M) Expenses 764 ($2.2M) Net assets 1110 ($399k)2023 Revenue 692 ($2.4M) Expenses 854 ($2.5M) Net assets 791 ($284k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 7 ($19k) Net assets 1249 ($448k)2025 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 6 ($18k) Net assets 1197 ($430k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (0)Expenses (6)Net assets (1197)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $936k to $765k (−18%).

$674k
$835k
$961k
$936k
$765k
$746k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of CITY OF REFUGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’20
$199k
’21
$40k
’22
−$115k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$18k
’25
68
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $55k → $28k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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). 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 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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.

49%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 91% · 2022 50% · 2023 91% — 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

98% of CITY OF REFUGE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CITY OF REFUGE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve67.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)91% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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 (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,900 to it, the largest being OUR LADY OF AMERICA MINISTRIES INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CITY OF REFUGE have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $202,900 in grants to CITY OF REFUGE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITY OF REFUGE?
OUR LADY OF AMERICA MINISTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 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 Ohio. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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