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REFUGE MURFREESBORO

REFUGE MURFREESBORO (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,624 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($2,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$28k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Refuge Murfreesboro does

Mission

To love god and love people through the uniqueness god created in each of us, to establish other ministries that are called and share the same beliefs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Meeting needs of not for profit organizations in the community.

    $4,052 spent
    20% of program spending
  2. Meeting needs of individuals who have fallen on hard times.

    $16,145 spent
    78% of program spending
  3. Missions of the church.

    $446 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,643.

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 ($45k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2018 Revenue 74 ($33k) Expenses 88 ($38k) Net assets 66 ($9k)2019 Revenue 49 ($22k) Expenses 51 ($22k) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 134 ($60k) Expenses 59 ($26k) Net assets 310 ($44k)2021 Revenue 111 ($50k) Expenses 80 ($35k) Net assets 417 ($59k)2022 Revenue 21 ($9k) Expenses 42 ($18k) Net assets 355 ($50k)2023 Revenue 24 ($11k) Expenses 43 ($19k) Net assets 299 ($42k)2024 Revenue 36 ($16k) Expenses 42 ($18k) Net assets 286 ($40k)2025 Revenue 22 ($10k) Expenses 51 ($22k) Net assets 199 ($28k)
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Revenue (22)Expenses (51)Net assets (199)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 $44k to $59k (+34%).

$14k
$9k
$0
$44k
$59k
$50k
$42k
$40k
$28k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of REFUGE MURFREESBORO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
−$5k
’18
$26
’19
$34k
’20
$15k
’21
−$9k
’22
−$8k
’23
−$2k
’24
−$12k
’25
15
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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Listed844544444
Joined·+4+0+1+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·80010010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $101.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MURFREESBORO’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 MURFREESBORO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

REFUGE MURFREESBORO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.

NJ

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

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’21
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REFUGE MURFREESBORO is better cushioned than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−124% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like REFUGE MURFREESBORO

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds REFUGE MURFREESBORO?
REFUGE MURFREESBORO (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,624 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($2,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does REFUGE MURFREESBORO have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,624 in grants to REFUGE MURFREESBORO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REFUGE MURFREESBORO?
VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REFUGE MURFREESBORO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2 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