New York · Nonprofit
Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc
Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,299,006 to it, the largest being CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ($2,375,988). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc does
Mission
Journey's End supports the transition, integration, and long-term success of refugees and immigrants, contributing to a more diverse, inclusive, and prosperous shared community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Federal funding is used to provide core resettlement services and additional support to refugees as they arrive in the united states. Support includes housing, social services, managed medical referrals, cultural orientation, intense case management for clients with special needs, english as second language instruction, school registration, and other services as needed to support refugees as they begin rebuilding their lives.
$2,779,104 spentof which $216,139 as grants38% of program spendingFunds are used to help newly arrived refugees find and retain jobs in the area, for up to five years. State funding is used to provide education services for refugees, immigrants and community members free of charge. Intensive English as Additional Language classes are offered at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level. High School Equivalency classes are available for TASC test preparation. Additional funding sources are used for community education and mentoring programs.
$1,472,206 spentof which $45,702 as grants20% of program spendingThe Immigration Legal Services Program (ILSP) at Journey's End Refugee Services provides pro bono legal assistance on a wide range of immigration matters before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Immigration Court. Matters include but are not limited to adjustment of status (green cards), naturalization, employment authorization, family reunification, asylum, and removal defense. Legal services offered through the ILSP include direct representation, advice and counsel, brief services, pro-se assistance, and community legal education. Services are provided across 21 counties in Upstate New York, including at primary offices in Buffalo and satellite offices in Rochester and Binghamton, New York.
$3,028,789 spentof which $250 as grants42% of program spendingServices provided relating to interpreting and tra
$620,463 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,280,099.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $7.1M (+31%).
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: 2018 80% · 2019 75% · 2020 73% · 2021 75% · 2022 83% · 2023 85% · 2024 59% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Pamela Kefi
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $85k → $631k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 76% · 2020 77% · 2021 41% · 2022 58% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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.
Government funding Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- Department of Homeland Security$300k
- Federal Communications Commission$150k
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 Journey'S End Refugee Services 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
75% 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 Journey'S End Refugee Services 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 Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc?
- Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,299,006 to it, the largest being CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ($2,375,988). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $5,299,006 in grants to Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Journey'S End Refugee Services Inc?
- CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,375,988 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Journey'S End Refugee Services 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 31 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