California · Nonprofit
HOME FOR REFUGEES USA
HOME FOR REFUGEES USA (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,844 to it, the largest being AL OTRO LADO ($303,470). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $854k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Home for Refugees USA does
Mission
To empower refugees to sustain new homes find new hope and fully experience life. We do this so that every refugee will have a home that supports safety freedom and dignity. What enables us to do this is the guiding belief that within every city where a refugee resettles exists the resources to help them find a place to call home through the support of their new community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Home Team program provides four pathways for welcoming refugees broadly defined as forcibly displaced individuals. The first is the co-sponsorship pathway where refugees and Special Immigrant Visa SIV holders are resettled through a Resettlement Agency RA with Home Teams working alongside the RA to support them. The second focuses on asylum seekers asylees and individuals on humanitarian parole ensuring that those with limited resources receive necessary assistance. The third involves PCHNV and Ukraine Sponsor Circles while the fourth is the Welcome Corps a new U.S. private sponsorship initiative. Volunteers from faith and community groups form Home Teams to provide holistic support to refugees and assist them in adapting to their new environment. These Home Teams undergo recruitment training and matching with refugee families or individuals offering guidance for a period of three months to a year. The primary goal is to foster safe trusting and consistent relationships that aid in the resettlement process. Home Teams help refugees navigate essential services including healthcare food distribution education ESL classes transportation employment opportunities and low-income…
$158,028 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
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$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,028.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $117k to $464k (+297%).
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.
100% of HOME FOR REFUGEES USA’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. 3 of the last 6 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
Minda Schweizer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150k → $150k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HOME FOR REFUGEES USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
HOME FOR REFUGEES USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 HOME FOR REFUGEES USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 42% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
14% of HOME FOR REFUGEES USA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 57% 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
81% of HOME FOR REFUGEES USA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HOME FOR REFUGEES USA's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOME FOR REFUGEES USA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOME FOR REFUGEES USA: 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 HOME FOR REFUGEES USA?
- HOME FOR REFUGEES USA (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,844 to it, the largest being AL OTRO LADO ($303,470). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOME FOR REFUGEES USA have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $853,844 in grants to HOME FOR REFUGEES USA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOME FOR REFUGEES USA?
- AL OTRO LADO is the largest funder on record, with $303,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOME FOR REFUGEES USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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