Refugee & Immigrant Transitions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943112099
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4159892151
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scouting
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,062,169
- Expenses
- $3,039,159
- Assets
- $1,602,571
- Liabilities
- $622,091
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Jane Pak (Co-ED/Secretary): $148,372 total reported compensation
- Laura Vaudreuil (Co-ED/Secretary): $144,267 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to welcome and partner with people who have sought refuge, employing strengths-based educational approaches and community supports so they may thrive in our shared communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Adult: In FY 2024-25, 1,200+ adults enrolled in our English Language and Literacy Program and Adult Newcomer Community Engagement Program. In our adult education services, the priority student population are preliterate and beginning level English language learners. RIT students gain English, vocational, and other critical skills, and often outperform statewide goals and averages. 80% of adults tested also passed life skills tests in English, including such topics as filling out a job application, demonstrating successful job interviewing techniques, making inquiries at a bank, or calling the school to inform them of their childs absence. In addition to our adult education program, RIT provides multilingual and multicultural case management support to help families navigate systems, connect to community resources, and adjust to their new lives in the U.S. 92% of clients supported by RIT's case managers, had 1 or more issue successfully resolved, or goal reached.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 66% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.