California · Nonprofit
REFUGE RECOVERY
REFUGE RECOVERY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($26,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Refuge Recovery does
Mission
To build a comprehensive network of Refuge Recovery meetings, communities, and treatment options. Specifically: a. To connect and support existing Refuge Recovery meetings and communities in order to share information, resources, treatment options, and aspirations. b. To assist in the creation of new meetings, communities, and treatment options. c. To hold in-person meeetings and conferences d. To create and support electronic communities, websites, and other means of communication and collaboration. e. To compile and support electronic communities, websites, and other means of communication and collaboration.To offer training and education: a. For the leaders of meetings and communities to grow and develop in their ability to lead and serve. b. For the general public, about the benefits and programs of Refuge Recovery.To offer fundraising and financial support for meeting, communities, collaborative projects, and other vehicles of the Refuge Recovery movement.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2018, Refuge Recovery grew from 400 meetings around the world to 650. We held our fourth annual international conference, attended by 125 people. Our donor base continues to grow, with 129 individuals and groups contributing to our non-profit, including organizations that allow for the collection of donations in honor of an event (e.g., a birthday, in memoriam, etc.) from multiple donors (e.g., Facebook, Network for Good). The infrastructure of the Refuge community continues to be strengthened with all 12 regions providing support to meetings within their geographic area. The Board of Directors meets monthly or more frequently as needed. Our monthly newsletter is distributed to 23,000 people around the world.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $38k to $43k (+12%).
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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 RECOVERY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of REFUGE RECOVERY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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.
Organizations like REFUGE RECOVERY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REFUGE RECOVERY: 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 RECOVERY?
- REFUGE RECOVERY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($26,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REFUGE RECOVERY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26,750 in grants to REFUGE RECOVERY.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGE RECOVERY?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGE RECOVERY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 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