Minnesota · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES (Minnesota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,794,398 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($456,995). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What International Association for Refugees does
Mission
We serve refugees and displaced people. We do this through refugee services and assistance, refugee church support, research and advocacy, training and consulting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Refugee services and assistance- bibles (burundi, malawi)- shelter (ukraine, usa)- food assistance (malawi, ukraine)- school buildings (malawi)- ukrainian emergency response (ukraine, slovakia, usa)- refugee church buildings (malawi)- refugee scholarships (kenya, malawi)- theological training (kenya)- emotional/spiritual support (bosnia, burundi, france, kenya, malawi, slovakia, usa)- refugee youth support (kenya, malawi)- refugee integration assistance (burundi, france, malawi, slovakia, usa)- medical assistance (greece, malawi)- refugee-led organizational capacity building (burundi, kenya, malawi, usa)
$1,442,730 spent73% of program spendingResearch and advocacy- research needs of refugees/asylum seekers (burundi, bosnia, france, kenya, malawi, slovakia,ukraine, usa)- iafr publications (map of refugee highway, refugee faq's, website, social media, email lists)- iafr media (introduction to the refugee highway, refugee interviews)- iafr staff storytelling, interviews, publications- virtual and public gatherings (refugee highway roundtables, diverse churches, schools, etc.)- iafr weekly email newsletter "resilience"- promotion of and participation in world refugee day.- participation in icva network
$225,908 spent11% of program spendingTraining and consulting- consulting with churches and agencies (asia, north america, europe, central/south america, africa)- online and in person refugee ministry trainings (asia, north america, europe, central/south america, africa)- training and consulting with international networks (refugee highway partnership, lausanne movement, emdc)- assist with planning and facilitation of refugee highway partnership regional roundtables (europe, north america)
$296,660 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,965,298.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $764k to $1.0M (+36%).
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.
98% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Kate Makosky
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $56k → $265k.
12 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES’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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 60% · 2019 37% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% — 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
58% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
68% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $570k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES is better cushioned than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES: 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES?
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES (Minnesota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,794,398 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($456,995). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,794,398 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $456,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 25 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