New York · Nonprofit
OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC
OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,430 to it, the largest being DAVID SWOPE FUND U ART VIII OF REV TR DTD JULY 25 2017 ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $319k
- Net assets
- $249k
What Open Arms for Refugees Inc does
Mission
Welcoming persons who were persecuted in other countries ("refugees") and assisting them in building a new life and financial self-sufficiency as an integrated part of the local community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Open arms for refugees, inc. Is a grassroots humanitarian group based in westchester county, ny whose mission is to welcome and assist individuals and families persecuted abroad and unable to return safely to their home countries ("refugees"). The charity focuses on resettlement of these refugees using a co-sponsorship model. We assist these new neighbors in finding appropriate housing, learning english, establishing basic medical and dental care, placing kids in school, securing employment and feeling a welcome and supported part of the community.
$181,140 spentof which $28,322 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $181,140.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $158k to $259k (+64%).
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 OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $83k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC’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
OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES 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 OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC?
- OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,430 to it, the largest being DAVID SWOPE FUND U ART VIII OF REV TR DTD JULY 25 2017 ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $319,430 in grants to OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN ARMS FOR REFUGEES INC?
- DAVID SWOPE FUND U ART VIII OF REV TR DTD JULY 25 2017 is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN ARMS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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