Virginia · Nonprofit
FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER
FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,954 to it, the largest being GOFUNDMEORG ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $162k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $183k
What Fresh Start Refugee Assistance Center does
Mission
To aid in the resettlement of refugees and immigrant groups in the dmv area by providing home furnishings, resources, and opportunities that promote self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency resettlement needs serves over 550 individuals, emergency assistance ranges from transportation needs, groceries, housing assitance, medical attention, and household items. Case aid is part of this program also.
$273 spentof which $273 as grants1% of program spendingConduct courses and job training program events: job skills/mentorship serves 208 through continuous esl/best classes, vocation trainings, and technical skills training for computer science certifications and job matching and youth development. Includes an internship program and esl aid.
$26,055 spentof which $26,055 as grants67% of program spendingCommunity morale building continuous events throughout the year including back to school event, cultural events like halloween, thanksgiving, holidays including eid picnic. Serves 250 to 300 per event. Eid-al adha part of community morale.
$6,615 spentof which $6,615 as grants17% of program spendingRoad to independence serves 40 people $2,901 administrative costs allocated to programs $3,218
$6,119 spentof which $6,119 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,062.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $62k to $183k (+196%).
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: 2022 22% · 2023 21% · 2024 42% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Dan Altman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $113k → $71k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER’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
FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 66% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
Against its field
FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER: 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 FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER?
- FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,954 to it, the largest being GOFUNDMEORG ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $190,954 in grants to FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER?
- GOFUNDMEORG is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH START REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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