Missouri · Nonprofit
RIVER OF REFUGE
RIVER OF REFUGE (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,013 to it, the largest being WILLIAM GEORGE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $700k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $762k
- Net assets
- $12M
What River of Refuge does
Mission
River of Refuge empowers working poor families with financial security through interim housing
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
River of Refuge provides temporary housing to working homeless families. Families live in a fully furnished apartment on site at River of Refuge on average 4-6 months while working a customized program. The program is focused on paying off debt which is prohibiting the family from securing stable housing, which is typically due to evictions and past due rent and utilities. Each program is tailored to the situation of the individual family. Families are placed on a strict, "all needs, no wants" budget and meet weekly with their assigned case manager. In addition to case management, families must attend weekly parenting and life skills classes on site at River of Refuge. The River of Refuge approach seeks to change the behavior of homeless families so that they can better achieve sustained housing moving forward.
$823,375 spent$8,116 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $823,375.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.1M to $10M (+24%).
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 52% · 2022 79% · 2023 86% · 2024 44% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of RIVER OF REFUGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $43k → $30k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 RIVER OF REFUGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 24 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
RIVER OF REFUGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 93% · 2019 58% · 2020 95% · 2021 48% · 2022 64% · 2023 66% — 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
20% of RIVER OF REFUGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
79% of RIVER OF REFUGE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
RIVER OF REFUGE is better cushioned than half of the 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RIVER OF REFUGE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 RIVER OF REFUGE: 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 RIVER OF REFUGE?
- RIVER OF REFUGE (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,013 to it, the largest being WILLIAM GEORGE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIVER OF REFUGE have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $762,013 in grants to RIVER OF REFUGE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVER OF REFUGE?
- WILLIAM GEORGE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVER OF REFUGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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