Minnesota · Nonprofit
ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION
ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,266,800 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($1,084,912). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $-360728
What Oram - Organization for Refuge Asylum & Migration does
Mission
Oram protects and empowers lgbtiq asylum seekers and refugees globally, creating sustainability and systemic change. Oram is recognized as one of the first international ngos to assist people fleeing persecution based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression and has since become a thought leader in lgbtiq migration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Oram's programs fall under three main pillars: protection, empowerment and advocacy. Under empowerment, oram provides skills and vocational training sessions to lgbtiq asylum seekers and refugees in germany, kenya and mexico. This is followed by business skills trainings and mentorships, as well as seed-funding to help start or grow small-scale businesses. Oram also helps connect lgbtiq individuals to existing businesses. These efforts help foster greater self-reliance through income generating activities. Oram also support lgbtiq refugee-led organizations with capacity strengthening, to help support their activities of direct service provision. Under protection, oram provides short-term housing in germany, kenya and mexico. Oram also provides cash assistance when possible, to those who are exceptionally vulnerable. Lastly, under our advocacy efforts, oram provides inclusion training sessions to a variety of stakeholders working with refugees and in the humanitarian sector. Oram also conducts research, issues publications and training tools, and through campaigns and in-person events raises the awareness of the challenges and needs of lgbtiq refugees globally.
$1,194,765 spentof which $352,112 as grants$48,432 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,194,765.
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 2022 to 2023, from $180k to $708k (+293%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Stephan Roth
Executive director
Board chair
Rajiv Desai
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $47k → $1.3M.
12 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION’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
ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION 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
82% 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 ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 71% · 2019 48% · 2020 73% · 2021 42% · 2022 49% · 2023 39% — 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
44% of ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION'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
ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $825k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION has grown faster 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 ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Alight · exempt
- Oram Ggmbh (Germany) · exempt
- Questscope Ltd · exempt
- Questscope · exempt
- Eastern Congo Initiative · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION?
- ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,266,800 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($1,084,912). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,266,800 in grants to ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION?
- CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,084,912 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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