New York · Nonprofit
International Rescue Committee INC
International Rescue Committee INC (New York) receives grants from 2678 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,276,019,832 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ($136,979,942). 1589 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3B
- Funders on record
- 2,678
- Grants received
- $1.3B
- Net assets
- $296M
What International Rescue Committee INC does
Mission
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In Africa, the IRC worked in 20 countries to respond to new and ongoing crises in each region. In East Africa-Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda-the IRC provided lifesaving aid in response to conflict, the continued war in Sudan and its impact across the region, and the effects of climate change, particularly severe drought. In West and Central Africa-Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone- the IRC responded with critical services to some of the most acute and protracted humanitarian crises on the continent. In Libya, IRC continues to support protection and other key services to people migrating through the North African country, as well as for conflict-affected Libyans. As part of IRC's Who We Serve & Where We Work mission alignment criteria, by the end of FY25, IRC successfully closed our operations in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
$362,497,180 spentof which $189,078,659 as grants$3,139,149 earned by the program33% of program spendingIRC U.S. programs served 226,105 clients and provided virtual information. Through a network of 29 cities across the country, the IRC's Resettlement, Asylum, and Integration (RAI) U.S. department ensured that vulnerable newcomers have the resources and tools they need to build new lives in America. RAI U.S. has a diverse portfolio of programs aimed at five core outcomes: health, safety, economic wellbeing, education, and power. Staff and volunteers work together to resettle newly arrived refugees, facilitating food, shelter, and other basic needs during the pivotal first months in the U.S. To promote self-reliance over the long term, RAI U.S. also offers English language classes, vocational training, and job placement activities, as well as specialized services for unaccompanied minors, asylees, survivors of torture, human trafficking, and other forms of trauma. RAI U.S. provides comprehensive legal services to help refugees and other immigrants become permanent residents and U.S. citizens, and supports a variety of programs designed to help new arrivals.
$363,865,926 spentof which $138,533,544 as grants$9,002,966 earned by the program33% of program spendingIRC's advisors delivered specialized and contextualized guidance in sectors including Economic Recovery and Development, Health, Education, and Violence Prevention and Response as well as support from the Monitoring, Evaluation, Technology, Accountability, and Learning (METAL) unit. The IRC maintained support services for financial, logistical, people & culture, security, IT and administration to all country programs and advanced Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion across the organization, as well as advancing our research & innovation initiatives. Finally, the IRC's Emergency Response team continued targeted support Ukraine, the occupied Palestinian territories and Haiti, and offered surge capacity and expertise to IRC teams across the globe for their emergency responses.
$96,276,752 spentof which $37,033,315 as grants$14,939,003 earned by the program9% of program spendingIn the Middle East, the IRC worked in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, as well as through our Emergency Response team in the occupied Palestinian territories. This included continued delivery of critical, life-saving assistance to people affected by conflict and protracted crisis. In Syria, following the fall of the Assad government, the IRC expanded its operational footprint from a focus on the north, to respond to needs across the country. In Yemen, our programs included outpatient and reproductive healthcare, mental health support, treatment for acute malnutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, food security, and economic empowerment initiatives, alongside case management for women and children. In Lebanon, IRC provide emergency aid and long-term services for refugees and vulnerable Lebanese communities across the country. These include education, health, economic support, and protection services. Specifically, demand for child protection and women's protection and empowerment services increased sharply in FY25. IRC continued its emergency and programmatic response within Ukraine and supported Ukrainians displaced in Poland in response to the full-scale…
$142,274,449 spentof which $70,820,061 as grants13% of program spendingIn Asia, the IRC responded to continued crises and needs from refugee, internally displaced persons, and host communities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Thailand and also supported local partners in the Philippines. The IRC's cash interventions were especially impactful. IRC's health programs also impacted communities positively across the region with primary health programs, malnutrition prevention interventions, and with water supply services.
$101,855,629 spentof which $63,202,601 as grants$38,474 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe IRC worked in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and the Caribbean nation, Haiti, to deliver integrated health, protection, education, and livelihood services to people facing conflict, violence, climate shocks, and displacement. Across Latin America, the IRC meets urgent needs along migration routes and in host communities while strengthening public systems to help people safely access essential services and regain control of their futures. IRC Latin America has strong relationships with local partners to reach more people with context-sensitive programming as needs continue to grow, and we work exclusively in partnership in Haiti.
$27,281,584 spentof which $10,441,288 as grants$308,737 earned by the program2% of program spendingIn FY25, with offices in Poland, Greece, Serbia, Italy, and Germany, and with partners across Europe, the IRC supported governments and local organizations to implement migrant integration programs.
$13,788,038 spentof which $618,755 as grants1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,107,839,558.
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 2020 to 2021, from $418M to $528M (+26%).
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 57% · 2018 58% · 2019 56% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 53% · 2023 62% · 2024 63% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of International Rescue Committee INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
David Miliband
Director, CEO & President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 538 funders to 1105 funders, grant income rose $45M → $239M.
226 of 2678 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Goldberg Family Foundation 217-48576810). These are real filings, and they are not money International Rescue Committee INC raised.
From the IRS filings of International Rescue Committee INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 2678 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
International Rescue Committee INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
66% 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 Rescue Committee INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of International Rescue Committee INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
International Rescue Committee INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 51 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $519M arriving through sponsors registered in 43 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 Rescue Committee INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 59 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding International Rescue Committee INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8B on record — $2.7B federal, $52.1M state.
- Department of State$1.0B
- Department of Health and Human Services$819.2M
- Agency for International Development$805.2M
- Department of Justice$33.8M
- Department of Agriculture$14.3M
- Department of Commerce$8.4M
- MD$49.8M
- NJ$2.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like International Rescue Committee 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- IRC Hellas · exempt
- IRC Deutschland gGmbh · exempt
- International Rescue Committee Syerige Insamlingsstiftelse · exempt
- IRC Korea Foundation · exempt
- IRC Polska · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for International Rescue Committee 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 International Rescue Committee INC?
- International Rescue Committee INC (New York) receives grants from 2678 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,276,019,832 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ($136,979,942). 1589 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does International Rescue Committee INC have?
- IRS filings report 2678 organizations giving $1,276,019,832 in grants to International Rescue Committee INC, 1589 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of International Rescue Committee INC?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH is the largest funder on record, with $136,979,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like International Rescue Committee INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 2678 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