Georgia · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,759,313 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,207,833). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Friends of Refugees Inc does
Mission
Friends of refugees, inc. Is a nonprofit organization organized in 2005 for the purpose of helping refugees build abundant new lives in america.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In fy25, friends of refugees was awarded a grant to start a project called peace project in collaboration with a local health clinic for the purpose of providing prenatal and postpartum care to refugee women in their language and respect for their culture. This project launched in september 2025, and has now been incorporated into part of the functionality of friends of refugees' embrace refugee birth program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Refugee family literacy: provides english literacy education for refugee women along with high quality early childhood development classes for their children under the age of 5.
$622,065 spent$360 earned by the program29% of program spendingEmbrace refugee birth support: provides pre- and post-natal education and support to refugee women who are pregnant or new mothers.
$580,423 spent$5,671 earned by the program27% of program spendingYouth programs: provide a summer experience and after school programming for middle school students.
$112,636 spent5% of program spendingParwana: equips women with the basic english speaking, listening, reading and writing skills needed to navigate life in the us, and to open opportunities and options for women by strengthening their communication skills, confidence, and community connections. Jolly avenue garden: operates a community garden for refugees along with nutrition, outdoor education and youth programming.start me clarkston: provides a business accelerator program for local entrepreneurs.
$831,775 spent$4,282 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,146,899.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $1.6M (−27%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Kendralyn Jeffreys
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $263k → $587k.
16 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 funders by total. 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
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 63% · 2019 56% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 61% · 2023 27% — 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
33% of FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
82% of FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF REFUGEES 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FRIENDS OF REFUGEES 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 FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC?
- FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,759,313 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,207,833). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $7,759,313 in grants to FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,207,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF REFUGEES 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 86 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing