New York · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC
NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,169 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,730). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $504k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $505k
- Net assets
- $401k
What Neighbors for Refugees Inc does
Mission
We work directly with refugee families to provide them with the necessary services, resources, and community support to bolster their resilience, achieve self-sufficiency and thrive in their new homes. We use the UNHCR definition of a refugee: "A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Legal Grants. We provide grants that help refugee families pay for legal representation in their cases for asylum, changes in immigration status, responding to ICE and other governmental agencies. In 2025, we provided grants to 11 families.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Resettlement. We provide financial and non-financial support to newly arrived refugees and to those already here. The financial support includes rent, furnishings, other household goods, personal hygiene, education, transportation, utilities, internet, phone, childcare, and other living expenses. In 2025, we helped resettle 3 new families and provided assistance to an additional 18 existing families.
$234,671 spentof which $234,671 as grants75% of program spendingRoad to Independence (R2I) Grants. We provide grants directly to individual refugees and refugee families who have been in the U.S. for some time, typically more than one year. Grants (typically up to ~ $1,200) are intended to help a family or individual get over a financial hurdle or get a step up to help them thrive on their path to independence. Generally, recipients are no longer being assisted financially by another organization or agency, and the grants typically help with classes, childcare, training, uniforms, household supplies or medication, school supplies, emergency rent, moving expenses etc. In 2025, we awarded 38 grants.
$37,865 spentof which $37,865 as grants12% of program spendingFood & Housing Insecurity Grants. We provide grants of $100 to $500 per family or individual that specifically target the food and housing insecurity or our refugee families. Some grants are made directly to refugee families, but the bulk of the grants are given to families that are identified by partner community organizations, who handle the distribution of the funds, and report the amounts and recipient names back to us.
$15,459 spentof which $15,459 as grants5% of program spendingLegal Grants. We provide grants that help refugee families pay for legal representation in their cases for asylum, changes in immigration status, responding to ICE and other governmental agencies. In 2025, we provided grants to 11 families.
$25,456 spentof which $25,456 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $313,451.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $247k to $403k (+63%).
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.
99% of NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $26k → $122k.
10 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
98% 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 NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 66% · 2022 41% · 2023 29% — 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
33% of NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
89% of NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC'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 $57k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $448k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC?
- NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,169 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,730). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $505,169 in grants to NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $142,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 22 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