Texas · Nonprofit
REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC
REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC (Texas) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,945,808 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($782,606). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC's revenue grew 25% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Norton Foundation Incshared funders
- Serving USA Inc Fka Serving Californiaportfolio match
- Shared Hope Internationalportfolio match
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.
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 4% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $124k → $904k.
27 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 FOR WOMEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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 FOR WOMEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
74% 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 FOR WOMEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 28% · 2019 39% · 2020 17% · 2021 18% · 2022 23% · 2023 31% — 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
47% of REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
52% of REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC'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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 124 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Norton Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Serving USA Inc Fka Serving Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shared Hope Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homeaid Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human Investment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Rescueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City of Refugeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ms Molly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A Lotta Love Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brown-Forman Foundationshared fundersKY · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundationshared fundersKY · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- James Graham Brown Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $579k on record.
- Department of Justice$579k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% 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 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REFUGE FOR WOMEN 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC?
- REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC (Texas) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,945,808 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($782,606). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $5,945,808 in grants to REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $782,606 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 124funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing