Texas · Nonprofit
REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT
REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,918 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($426,218). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $610k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $617k
- Net assets
- $275k
What Refugee Language Project does
Mission
Refugee Language Project uses language as a doorway to welcome displaced people for the flourishing of the community and the glory of God. We welcome refugees through programs that overcome language barriers and honor cultural diversity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Literacy. Refugee Language Project provided a bi-weekly daytime ESL program, a bi-weekly evening ESL program, and a once weekly adult literacy program to 100 participants from 19 language groups via 198 hours of instruction. Expenses included wages for a language services coordinator, instructors, and childcare, in addition to program materials and occupancy expenses.
$126,792 spent43% of program spendingCulture. Refugee Language Project published 2 bilingual storybooks telling the life stories of Amarillo's refugees. Additionally, Refugee Language Project provided 3 culture trainings to 3 local entities. Program expenses included wages for the executive director, marketing director, contract artists and translators, and printing costs.
$69,997 spent24% of program spendingTranslation. Refugee Language Project offered interpreting services for 143 appointments in 17 languages during 2024. Program expenses included wages for the language services coordinator and contract translators.
$55,752 spent$1,420 earned by the program19% of program spendingWelcome. Refugee Language Project engaged with local area churches to equip them to better serve refugees. Refugee Language Project held 3 trainings serving 20 volunteers from local churches. Additionally, Refugee Language Project completed 8 speaking engagements at 8 local churches. Program expenses included wages for the church engagement coordinator, food, print materials, and contract translators.
$28,335 spent10% of program spendingCommunity Programs. Refugee Language Project operated a multi-cultural community center (The PLACE) that met the social service needs of recently arrived refugees. The PLACE saw 10,685 adult and child visitors during 2024. Additionally, Refugee Language Project conducted community table lunches to participants in our programs. Program expenses included occupancy expenses, food, and program materials.
$16,588 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $297,464.
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.
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 $154k to $275k (+79%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 45% · 2023 62% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Ryan Pennington
President/Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $54k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 LANGUAGE PROJECT’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 LANGUAGE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 LANGUAGE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 70% — 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
69% of REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT'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 $191k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k 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.
Against its field
REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT: 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 LANGUAGE PROJECT?
- REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,918 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($426,218). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $616,918 in grants to REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT?
- AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $426,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 9 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