Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Place of Refuge Inc
Place of Refuge Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,045 to it, the largest being J&S LAIDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 3717 ($161,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $304k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $271k
- Net assets
- $-139922
What Place of Refuge Inc does
Mission
The Place of Refuge is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that seeks to bring redemptive healing through faith-based trauma treatment and training focusing on urban populations and their caregivers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, 106 individuals and families received a combined 1,464 counseling appointments. Our counseling program primarily targets the multi-cultural, urban, working-class neighborhoods of North Philadelphia. While there are several faith-based, outpatient treatment programs in Southeastern PA, Refuge is the only faith-based counseling for adults in our region credentialed to accept Medicaid funds. At Refuge, a sensitive, pastoral counseling approach tailored to the urban context forms the basis of our intervention and these foundational principles are coupled with trauma-focused and evidence-based counseling techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and other traditional therapies are carefully integrated into each treatment plan. Our model of care was born in the Hispanic community and has been extended to African Americans, Caucasians and immigrant families living throughout our region. We treat diagnosed conditions such as depression, PTSD, anxiety, anger, and bipolar disorder. We consider it a privilege to carry out this work.
$264,960 spent$184,696 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn 2024, an estimated 302 individuals were served at PORs 12 outreach events. Beyond our counseling services, our grassroots community outreach efforts help improve public health by increasing mental health education and awareness at the local level. By hosting small groups, training workshops, information tables, and mental health screenings events, etc., we build strength and resilience within the community - meeting people where they are.
$929 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $265,889.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $59k to $107k (+82%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of Place of Refuge Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Bryan Dickey
Exec Director interim
Board chair
Rev Luis Centeno
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $34k.
3 of 4 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.
From the IRS filings of Place of Refuge 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
Place of Refuge Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 Place of Refuge Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 55% · 2022 57% · 2023 56% — 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
Place of Refuge Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Place of Refuge Inc has grown faster than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Place of Refuge 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 Place of Refuge 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 Place of Refuge Inc?
- Place of Refuge Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,045 to it, the largest being J&S LAIDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 3717 ($161,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Place of Refuge Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $271,045 in grants to Place of Refuge Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Place of Refuge Inc?
- J&S LAIDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 3717 is the largest funder on record, with $161,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Place of Refuge Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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