Arizona · Nonprofit
REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC
REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,296,400 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($881,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $316k
What Rez Refuge Ministries Inc does
Mission
Provides assistance to native americans on the navajo nation.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Community relief and recovery efforts: total pack pick-ups 43; 157 community members served relief packs distributed in jan march: 121 packs wood packs: 42 (jan - mar) bag of coal: 20 (jan - mar) winter wear drive distribution: 16 transients/ 23 youth recipients donations were excepted throughout dec 2020 feb 2021 and distributed in person to individuals and youth in the local communities. Elder outreach projects (april june): 4 stoves & 20 water tanks. Outreach projects included providing water tanks, in addition to, stove fixtures and repair during the colder months. Youth employment: youth fellows 2021 - recruited 3 teenagers for summer employment throughout june & july; total applied 7 mycellium youth network with bioneers: recruited 5 youth; story creations and writing opportunities for the youth. Increase of fundraising efforts including but not limited to; candy leis/grams sale, in- house merchandise sales, online apparel sales & more. Providing online programming packets for pick-up to participants throughout the year. Averaging 15 participants per quarter. These were various craft, steam, and artistic expression related items. Online music programming averaging 11…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $194k to $317k (+63%).
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.
99% of REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $224k → $18.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES 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
REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 52% · 2022 65% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
70% of REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES 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 $391k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $905k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 18,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 18,396 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Organizations like REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES 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 REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC?
- REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,296,400 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($881,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,296,400 in grants to REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $881,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 12 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