Refuge America Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880565655
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,824
- Expenses
- $62,659
- Assets
- $165
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dorothy Wetzel (President)
People named in this filing
- Dorothy Wetzel (President)
- Ryan-Ashley Maloney (Board Secretary)
- Daniel Friedman (Co-Founder Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To welcome forcibly displaced LGBTQIA asylum seekers refugees supporting them through sponsorship as they rebuild their lives building community through human connection and serving as advocates storytellers Communities of Care Refuge Americas Communities of Care program provides direct support to LGBTQIA asylum seekers including individuals in immigration detention In 2025 the program provided stipends and basic needs assistance coordinated referrals to legal housing and mental health services and supported individuals navigating the asylum process with dignity and care Nation of Welcome Storytelling Project Through the Nation of Welcome Storytelling Project Refuge America amplified the lived experiences of LGBTQIA asylum seekers and refugees Activities included exhibitions public storytelling panels and creative works designed to humanize migration build empathy and shift public understanding toward more welcoming policies
What it reported doing in 2025
Ainbow Relief Advocacy Refuge America engaged in public education and advocacy efforts including campaigns protests and creative projects such as co-producing a play to raise awareness about the impact of immigration and detention policies on LGBTQIA people These efforts promoted systemic change while centering dignity and lived experience
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.