Kentucky · Nonprofit
REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC
REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,895,472 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($1,476,665). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $86k
What Refuge Bowling Green Inc does
Mission
Refuge bowling green's missions are (1) to train and equip churches to minister and to reach immigrants and refugees living in the bowling green, kentucky area. (2) to create avenues of entry points for the gospel in immigrant communities that are unreached/unchurched. (3) to provide support and ministry to believing immigrants and refugees in their community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Programs: english program - 175 individuals served driver's education - 30 students obtained a driver's license job placements - 75 individuals were placed in local jobs health program - 1,099 individuals were served through classes, appointments, and individual instruction youth mentorship - 86 students participated in youth programming pre-school program - 55 students school-age program - 143 students
$802,572 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $802,572.
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 2022 to 2023, from $91k to $274k (+201%).
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: 2022 10% · 2023 25% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $121k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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
97% of REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like REFUGE BOWLING GREEN 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 REFUGE BOWLING GREEN 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 REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC?
- REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,895,472 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ($1,476,665). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,895,472 in grants to REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,476,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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