California · Nonprofit
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,082,384 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($651,927). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $980k
What Refugee & Immigrant Transitions does
Mission
Our mission is to welcome and partner with people who have sought refuge, employing strengths-based educational approaches and community supports so they may thrive in our shared communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult: In FY 2024-25, 1,200+ adults enrolled in our English Language and Literacy Program and Adult Newcomer Community Engagement Program. In our adult education services, the priority student population are preliterate and beginning level English language learners. RIT students gain English, vocational, and other critical skills, and often outperform statewide goals and averages. 80% of adults tested also passed life skills tests in English, including such topics as filling out a job application, demonstrating successful job interviewing techniques, making inquiries at a bank, or calling the school to inform them of their childs absence. In addition to our adult education program, RIT provides multilingual and multicultural case management support to help families navigate systems, connect to community resources, and adjust to their new lives in the U.S. 92% of clients supported by RIT's case managers, had 1 or more issue successfully resolved, or goal reached.
$1,603,395 spentof which $257,179 as grants$114,160 earned by the program59% of program spendingYouth: At least 700 youth participated in our Bridge-2-Success Youth Development Program and Youth Newcomer Community Engagement Program. In particular, 600+ refugee and immigrant youth attended RIT's school-based academic support at six partner public schools, reducing the student-to-teacher ratio in approximately 100 class periods weekly. Three of these school partners were new for 2024-2025, demonstrating continued success and interest in RIT's model. Other RIT youth services have included youth leadership through Peer Tutor and Wellness Ambassador programs, home-based tutoring and mentoring, school enrollment support and advocacy, skill-building workshops, and a childcare program for our youngest students.
$1,125,500 spentof which $280,616 as grants$37,459 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,728,895.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+26%).
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: 2017 17% · 2018 17% · 2020 41% · 2021 40% · 2022 35% · 2023 42% · 2024 60% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Refugee & Immigrant Transitions’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Amy Argenal
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $191k → $510k.
19 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Refugee & Immigrant Transitions’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders 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 Refugee & Immigrant Transitions.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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
52% of Refugee & Immigrant Transitions's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
57% of Refugee & Immigrant Transitions'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside California, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions has grown faster than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Refugee & Immigrant Transitions
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.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Refugee & Immigrant Transitions: 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 Refugee & Immigrant Transitions?
- Refugee & Immigrant Transitions (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,082,384 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($651,927). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Refugee & Immigrant Transitions have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,082,384 in grants to Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Refugee & Immigrant Transitions?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $651,927 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Refugee & Immigrant Transitions 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.
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 47 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