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Family Refuge Village

Family Refuge Village (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $128,159 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($128,159). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$8k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$128k
Net assets
$45k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%
01What it does

What Family Refuge Village does

Mission

Provide Community Social Services

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Convened meetings representing 20+ organizations & churches in N Minneapolis. Provided resources & service coordination for families at risk of child protection involvement.

    $90,562 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,562.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($117k) Net assets 100 ($138k)2024 Revenue 6 ($8k) Expenses 86 ($100k) Net assets 33 ($45k)
20232024
Revenue (6)Expenses (86)Net assets (33)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 $138k to $45k (−67%).

$138k
$45k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Family Refuge Village’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’23
−$93k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Lynn Lewis

CEO

Board chair

Bishop Richard Howell JR

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Family Refuge Village’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Family Refuge Village's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Family Refuge Village's revenue fell 94% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin−1191% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−94% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Family Refuge Village: 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 Family Refuge Village?
Family Refuge Village (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $128,159 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($128,159). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Family Refuge Village have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $128,159 in grants to Family Refuge Village.
Who is the largest funder of Family Refuge Village?
THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $128,159 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Family Refuge Village find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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