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REFUGE HOUSE INC

REFUGE HOUSE INC (Florida) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,577,176 to it, the largest being FLORIDA COUNCIL AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC ($4,094,648). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.6M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$2.3M
19/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Refuge House Inc does

Mission

To provide direct services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and to their children and families, as well as to eliminate such violence through community education and public advocacy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The refuge house provided emergency shelter (270), transitional housing (79), counseling services (2,044), courthouse services (1,103), and hotline support (1,540) to survivors of domestic violence, their children, and families.

    $2,164,227 spent$14,050 earned by the program
    81% of program spending
  2. The refuge house provided sexual violence prevention and services such as 24 hour crisis response (280), counseling services (193), and hotline support (273) to survivors of sexual violence, their children, and families.

    $496,840 spent$54,325 earned by the program
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,661,067.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 106 ($3.1M) Expenses 98 ($3.1M) Net assets 102 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 114 ($3.3M) Expenses 103 ($3.2M) Net assets 112 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 115 ($3.3M) Expenses 105 ($3.3M) Net assets 116 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 127 ($3.7M) Expenses 101 ($3.2M) Net assets 159 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 104 ($3.0M) Expenses 95 ($3.0M) Net assets 201 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 102 ($3.0M) Expenses 107 ($3.4M) Net assets 168 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 117 ($3.4M) Expenses 107 ($3.3M) Net assets 177 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 125 ($3.6M) Expenses 112 ($3.5M) Net assets 185 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (112)Net assets (185)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $4.1M (+8%).

$3.8M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$4.1M
$4.2M
$4.0M
$3.9M
$4.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 75% · 2018 74% · 2019 73% · 2020 75% · 2021 67% · 2022 80% · 2023 84% · 2024 85% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of REFUGE HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$227k
’17
$20k
’18
$99k
’19
$42k
’20
$531k
’21
$70k
’22
−$398k
’23
$66k
’24
$98k
’25
3.0
months of
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.

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Listed141516151712131415
Joined·+5+3+1+3+4+5+3+2
No longer listed·42219421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $593k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 29 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 HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 HOUSE INC.

39%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 57% · 2019 61% · 2020 60% · 2021 68% · 2022 61% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.

“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

46% of REFUGE HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of REFUGE HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $725k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REFUGE HOUSE INC's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding REFUGE HOUSE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record — $2.0M federal, $2.5M state.

Federal$2.0M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$1.5M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$546k
State$2.5M
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $2.2M
  • BENEFITS/CLAIMS - VENDOR - GENERAL $263k
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $789

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds REFUGE HOUSE INC?
REFUGE HOUSE INC (Florida) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,577,176 to it, the largest being FLORIDA COUNCIL AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC ($4,094,648). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does REFUGE HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $10,577,176 in grants to REFUGE HOUSE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REFUGE HOUSE INC?
FLORIDA COUNCIL AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,094,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REFUGE HOUSE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing