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CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC

CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,056 to it, the largest being CITY OF REFUGE ($375,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$723k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$566k
Net assets
$150k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What City of Refuge Communities Inc does

Mission

City of Refuge Communities Mission is to enhance and encourage communities to develop by providing professional and policy development technical assistance and financial support.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Bringing education and awareness to the trauma and tragedy caused by human trafficking and exploitation.

    $694,702 spentof which $614,547 as grants
    67% of program spending
  2. Providing advisement development and bringing financial support to individuals families communities nonprofit organizations for the furtherance of its mission.

    $343,446 spentof which $259,801 as grants
    33% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,038,148.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($258k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($188k)2022 Revenue 361 ($931k) Expenses 974 ($686k) Net assets 230 ($432k)2023 Revenue 420 ($1.1M) Expenses 2036 ($1.4M) Net assets 43 ($82k)2024 Revenue 280 ($723k) Expenses 929 ($655k) Net assets 80 ($150k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (280)Expenses (929)Net assets (80)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 2022 to 2023, from $437k to $82k (−81%).

$190k
$437k
$82k
$150k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$188k
’21
$245k
’22
−$351k
’23
$69k
’24
2.8
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.

Chief executive

Bruce Deel

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed4231
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $307k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 COMMUNITIES 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

CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 COMMUNITIES INC.

66%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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.

Where its funders are

95% of CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

IL
NC
GA

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

’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 COMMUNITIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES 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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 0%Fundraising 3%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES 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 CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC?
CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,056 to it, the largest being CITY OF REFUGE ($375,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $566,056 in grants to CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC?
CITY OF REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $375,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITY OF REFUGE COMMUNITIES INC 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 2021–2024), 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