Worcester Refugee Assistance Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320309547
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Worcester, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5083205819
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,246
- Expenses
- $87,102
- Assets
- $67,093
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MILLIE RAO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MEME TRAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- PAW WAH (BOARD MEMBER)
- PRICILLA LEE (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
Wrap is a network of individuals committed to assisting refugees and resettled migrants achieve sustainable self-reliance through mentoring, advocacy, and educational assistance. We are an independent non-profit organization that works collaboratively to complement and augment the efforts of other organizations and individuals assisting refugees and resettled migrants in worcester.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program serves refugees living in worcester in several different capacities through education and mentoring programs, for all refugees and displaced peoples in the worcester area. In addition, collaborations with other local organizations on an ad-hoc basis to meet the growing needs of refugees. - the children's and youth programs are centered around weekly programming that provides various stem activities, experiments, art projects, and more to encourage sociability and academic curiosity within the groups. In hopes to spark new interests and career aspirations, both groups take field trips to local museums, tower hill botanical garden, local beaches and parks, and more.- the weekly monday night education programs work collaboratively with mass academy high school students, shrewsbury high school students, clark university, holy cross university and umass chan medical students to provide weekly activities, school tutoring and homework help. - the mentoring programs work with umass medical school and graduate students to provide college application and sat prep mentoring, educational scholarships, and summer enrichment programs for teens. In collaboration with the case management elective at the umass chan medical school. - our online esl classes for adults run 4 times per week, 2 times per day and are open to refugees and immigrants from all countries. More than 200 adults from afghanistan, haiti, ukraine, syria, palestine, burma, brazil have accessed our beginner and intermediate esl classes in 2025. - we allocate a significant portion of our funds to serve as grants to the community. As part of this, we sponsored 20 refugee women for driving lessons in keeping with our mission to assist new immigrants to self sufficiency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 56
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: -37.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 41; 41st 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: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 56.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.