Tennessee · Nonprofit
REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,159,369 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($575,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $-39268
What Refugee Empowerment Program does
Mission
To empower refugees and immigrants in memphis, tn by offering high-quality, tailored programming that encourages, educates, and equips individuals, families, and the community. We walk alongside newcomers as they integrate into american culture and work to achieve their personal and professional goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Refugee Empowerment Program ("rep") is committed to helping young newcomers to the u.s. To achieve their dreams. We support youth through after-school and summer enrichment programming, mentorship, recreation, cultural engagement and integration, college and career readiness, and more. Starting over in a new country, new culture, and new language is a formidable process. Rep supports adult newcomers on this journey with esol classes, digital literacy training, and citizenship preparedness support. We promote cultural integration through a variety of programs and services, including: advocacy; support navigating medical, legal, employment, and social service networks; translation and interpretation; targeted workshops; community forums; nursery and pre-k programs; and more. Individuals benefited from the program: 800
$993,203 spentof which $167,312 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $993,203.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $428k to $64k (−85%).
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: 2019 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 63% · 2023 67% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Camela Echols
Executive director/ex offi
Board chair
Anthony Hanna
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $114k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM’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
REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 45% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% — 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
50% of REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $354k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.1M
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.
Organizations like REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: 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 EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM?
- REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,159,369 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($575,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,159,369 in grants to REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 13 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