Arizona · Nonprofit
HOUSE OF REFUGE INC
HOUSE OF REFUGE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,092,706 to it, the largest being DEL E WEBB FOUNDATION ($367,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What House of Refuge Inc does
Mission
House of refuge, inc. (the organization) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving families experiencing homelessness in arizona. Founded on april 17, 1996, the organization provides transitional housing in a neighborhood setting along with comprehensive support services designed to promote long-term stability and self-sufficiency. Participants may receive housing and supportive services for up to 12 months, including case management, employment and education support, and access to essential resources. These services are tailored to address the unique needs of each family as they work toward securing permanent housing and financial independence. On any given day, approximately 250 individuals reside at house of refuge. Through structured programming and ongoing support, participants develop the skills and stability needed to improve their current circumstances and build a stronger future for themselves and their children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
House of refuge provides transitional housing and essential wrap-around supportive services to help homeless families identify and overcome their individual barriers to stable housing as they work to become selfsufficient. All adult residents meet at least monthly with workforce development- and family services-case managers.
$4,083,641 spent$362,442 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,083,641.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.3M to $6.2M (+17%).
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 4% · 2018 25% · 2019 6% · 2020 11% · 2021 1% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of HOUSE OF REFUGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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.
Board chair
Dr Don Bird
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $136k → $767k.
13 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 HOUSE OF REFUGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
HOUSE OF REFUGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 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 HOUSE OF REFUGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 33% · 2019 16% · 2020 15% · 2021 9% · 2022 12% · 2023 14% — 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
36% of HOUSE OF REFUGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
74% of HOUSE OF REFUGE INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $952k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HOUSE OF REFUGE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSE OF REFUGE 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSE OF REFUGE 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 HOUSE OF REFUGE INC?
- HOUSE OF REFUGE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,092,706 to it, the largest being DEL E WEBB FOUNDATION ($367,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSE OF REFUGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $4,092,706 in grants to HOUSE OF REFUGE INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSE OF REFUGE INC?
- DEL E WEBB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $367,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSE OF REFUGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 94 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