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Refuge Recovery World Services Inc

Refuge Recovery World Services Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,341 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($57,097). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$536k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$111k
Net assets
$51k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Refuge Recovery World Services Inc does

Mission

To provide Buddhist based support groups, education materials, meditation retreats and conferences for those recovering from addiction.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Meditation Retreats are professionally led multiple-day residential experiences that help with the recovery process. There are 5-10 retreats per year.

    $304,397 spent$225,059 earned by the program
    53% of program spending
  2. Refuge Recovery Documentary about the organization and program. The film, which includes retreats, group therapies and dozens of interviews, will be completed and ready for distribution in late 2025.

    $221,891 spent
    39% of program spending
  3. Refuge Recovery offers in person and online meeting information, group resources, individual inventory worksheets, pamphlets, and meeting materials to assist individuals in starting their own Refuge Recovery meetings in their area. There are around 400 peer-led meetings.

    $47,301 spent
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $573,589.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($217k) Expenses 100 ($184k) Net assets 100 ($106k)2022 Revenue 192 ($417k) Expenses 242 ($446k) Net assets 72 ($76k)2023 Revenue 276 ($599k) Expenses 247 ($455k) Net assets 136 ($144k)2024 Revenue 248 ($536k) Expenses 342 ($629k) Net assets 48 ($51k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (248)Expenses (342)Net assets (48)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 2022 to 2023, from $76k to $177k (+132%).

$106k
$76k
$177k
$82k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

48% of Refuge Recovery World Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’21
−$30k
’22
$144k
’23
−$93k
’24
1.6
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.

Chief executive

Noah Levine

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed5555
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $33k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 World Services Inc’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 Recovery World Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 Recovery World Services Inc.

51%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 59% · 2023 50% — 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.

Where its funders are

86% of Refuge Recovery World Services 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

IL
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Recovery World Services Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Refuge Recovery World Services Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Refuge Recovery World Services 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Refuge Recovery World Services Inc?
Refuge Recovery World Services Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,341 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($57,097). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Refuge Recovery World Services Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $111,341 in grants to Refuge Recovery World Services Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Refuge Recovery World Services Inc?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Refuge Recovery World Services Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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