Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,398,725 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($4,470,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 164
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Refugees International Inc does
Mission
Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Main outcomes:between january and june 2025, refugees international advanced a sustained advocacy agenda focused on protection pathways, crisis response, and principled humanitarian policy across 8 countries in multiple regions. Core areas of engagement included the escalating humanitarian catastrophe sudan, kenya, occupied palestinian territories and myanmar, alongside continued attention to u.s. Border and deportation policy. Throughout this period, refugees international issued statements, situation updates, and event briefings that highlighted deteriorating conditions in conflict settings and emphasized the need for diplomatic engagement, restored aid flows, and stronger civilian protection.refugees international also intensified its engagement on u.s. Immigration and protection policy during this period. The organization provided expert testimony to congress, challenged the rollback of humanitarian parole pathways, and highlighted the risks posed by the termination of programs serving cubans, haitians, nicaraguans, and venezuelans. Through regular updates, refugees international documented the growing dangers facing people affected by mass deportations, loss of work…
$2,184,712 spentof which $365,068 as grants$265,040 earned by the program79% of program spendingStrategic outreach fy25 (short year) program activitiesrefugees international engaged in a wide range of strategic outreach activities and initiatives throughout from january 1 to june 30, 2025 to help advance the organization's mission to create a more welcoming world for people seeking refuge and to educate the public.refugees international published and promoted hundreds of research and advocacy products across a variety of platforms in the short fy25 period and earned considerable media coverage, garnering more than 200 media citations and interviews across the year to amplify our advocacy and education messages to diverse audiences. Refugees international appeared in news stories and opinion pieces carried by the new york times, washington post, wall street journal, la times, financial times, foreign affairs, foreign policy, the guardian, usa today, time, newsweek, npr, reuters, the associated press, bloomberg, bbc, cnn, msnbc, nbc, and numerous other print, online, and broadcast news outlets. Our website saw more than 435,400 visitors during the period of the short fiscal year, and we had more than 375,000 social media followers across accounts.refugees international's…
$597,043 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,781,755.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.0M to $7.1M (+44%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 43 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.9M.
23 of 164 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 164 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
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
47% 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 REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 70% · 2019 35% · 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 16% · 2023 23% — 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
26% of REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC?
- REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,398,725 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($4,470,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 164 organizations giving $23,398,725 in grants to REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 164 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing