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Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc

Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,538 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($183,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$242k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$544k
Net assets
$131k
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc does

Mission

The mission of the Community Asylum Seekers Project is to cultivate a supportive community for those seeking asylum in the US while offering basic needs and accompanying them on their journey towards building a life in this country

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided comprehensive support to individuals and families navigating the asylum process, including assistance with basic needs, healthcare, language learning, job training, school enrollment, asylum and work permit applications and community integration. The program also offers educational workshops and events addressing immigration policy, the root causes of migration, and opportunities for community engagement. 93 individuals were provided services to in 2025.

    $215,080 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $215,080.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2020 Revenue 87 ($95k) Expenses 113 ($95k) Net assets 99 ($80k)2021 Revenue 153 ($166k) Expenses 202 ($170k) Net assets 95 ($76k)2022 Revenue 250 ($271k) Expenses 267 ($224k) Net assets 153 ($123k)2023 Revenue 327 ($354k) Expenses 388 ($327k) Net assets 187 ($151k)2024 Revenue 153 ($166k) Expenses 201 ($169k) Net assets 180 ($145k)2025 Revenue 223 ($242k) Expenses 304 ($255k) Net assets 162 ($131k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (223)Expenses (304)Net assets (162)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 2021 to 2022, from $89k to $128k (+44%).

$81k
$91k
$89k
$128k
$154k
$149k
$136k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’19
−$414
’20
−$4k
’21
$47k
’22
$28k
’23
−$4k
’24
−$14k
’25
6.0
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

Sharon Hall-Smith

Executive Director

Board chair

Francie Marbury

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202220232025
Listed91010
Joined·+5·
No longer listed·4·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $11k → $227k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Community Asylum Seekers Project 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

Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

63% 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 Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc.

34%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 59% · 2022 30% · 2023 34% — 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

100% of Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 7 states in all.

VT
WA
NY
MA
IN
NJ
DE

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Community Asylum Seekers Project 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 Vermont

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc?
Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,538 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($183,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $543,538 in grants to Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc?
THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $183,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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