Colorado · Nonprofit
REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES
REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,488 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Refuge City Minstries does
Mission
Refuge city ministries was founded to serve the lost and forgotten individuals of denver, the homeless youth; men and women as they are released from prison;and families as they are suffering in these difficult times. We assist those in need by bringing them the word of god through bible studies and worship, by building relationships based on love and trust, by providing christian counselling, employment opportunities, free meals and clothing for their basic spirtual and material needs.this ministry conducted an average of 45 ministry programs per month touching the lives of 300+ homeless youth; 250+ women, men and youth in halfway houses and over 50 ex-offenders living in approved housing. These programs included 33 worship/bible study services per month, high adventure mountain trips,christian counselling services, job placement opportunities, reintegration with families and society and transportation to religious services. These programs are all funded through private gifts, without
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Community center for homeless youth-provide clothing, shelter, food, counselling, mountain adventure trips, transportation to needed events/classes 325 youth in program
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $45k to $20k (−55%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $16.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 CITY MINSTRIES’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
REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
76% 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 CITY MINSTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
76% of REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES: 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 CITY MINSTRIES?
- REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,488 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $98,488 in grants to REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGE CITY MINSTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 3 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