Refuge International Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 342009561
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Henderson, TN, USA
- Phone
- 3343130533
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,794
- Expenses
- $105,411
- Assets
- $12,696
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Ronnie E Carter (Chairman)
- Travis K Gable (Director)
- Alan Manley (Director)
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
Support to Ministries in Honduras and Guatemala that provide support and assistance to children and their families. Refuge operates a resource center, Mission Point Resource Center, in Catacamas, Olancho, that provides educational and teaching material to parents and teachers. Our primary focus is Honduras where we fund a program BECA - which is a scholarship program which supports children to go to public schools with stipends which range from $20 to $100 per month. In 2025 we supported 17 young people. We operated four feeding programs for children which provide two meals per week to approximately 180 children in Jutiquile, La Mansion, Villa Nueva, and Trujillo. We distributed food baskets to needy families, distributing more than 200. A group of 21 traveled to Honduras in June and July 2025 and participated in campaigns with 17 Students from Baxter Institute and poured concrete floors in 3 houses and painted a church building. 4 Seminars were held, including one on Human Trafficking
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 support continued to Mission Point Resource Center in Catacamas, Olancho, providing training in Ethics, Teacher Training, Computer proficiency, and Church Leadership to families in approximately 63 congregation in Eastern Honduras. Approximately 5 teacher groups have been trained, and 10 students received a 13-week computer literacy course. In Honduras, we continued a BECA program, which provides stipends to 17 children allowing them to continue in public school. We also have feeding programs in four communities - Tegucigalpa, LaMansion, Trujillo and Jutiquile. Through these programs approximately 180 youngsters and a small number of older people are provided two meals per week. Our Resource Center and the group who traveled to Honduras in June and July distributed more than 200 food baskets. In September, we sponsored a Kids Against Packing event in Jacks Creek, TN and packaged more than 2800 dehydrated food packets containing more than 17,000 meals were sent to Honduras for distribution. Funds were also sent to Guatemala to help with food shortages in El Estor Isabel. and to purchase school backpacks and supplies for youngsters. Two ministers, Mario Alfaro, and Marlon Molina have been supported full time. These two men serve local churches but also travel throughout Olancho and Colon to deliver classes on Leadership training - a program called PROFORLE or Program for the Formation of Leaders. Our group of 21 people who traveled on a mission trip in June, hosted several seminars for the local congregations and poured concrete floors in three houses and painted an entire church building as well as distributing dozens of food baskets to needy families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.