Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$1,625,571

Total expenses

$1,229,088

Contributions and grants received

$927,962

Grants paid

$699,047

Program service revenue

$696,924

Investment income

$685

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,407,697

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,067,216

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$340,481

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,054,195

Management and general expenses

$161,878

Fundraising expenses

$13,015

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,054,195

Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Refugee Congress contributed to public education about the positive social, cultural, and economic contributions of refugees by increasing the engagement of forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) in shaping the public narrative. As a result, more Americans gained exposure to the cultural, civic, and economic strengths refugees bring to their communities by hearing directly from FDP leaders. We also positioned Refugee Congress as a go-to organization for elevating lived expertise in spaces where policies and practices affecting FDPs are determined. Key accomplishments included issuing 28 press statements with quotes from more than half of our Delegates, supporting a record 25 Delegate-led World Refugee Day events nationwide through sponsorships, branded materials, and communications support, and ensuring thousands of people across the country engaged in these events. Delegates also spoke on major national and global stages.

  Expenses $798,298

• Refugee Congress Delegates and their teams are the heart of our organization, using their lived expertise to shape priorities, strengthen advocacy, and lead awareness efforts nationwide. In 2024, we recruited 10 new highly skilled Lead Delegates across 10 states and onboarded 35 Associate Delegates, with participation on monthly calls increasing to an average of 30 attendees and demonstrating strong engagement across opportunities. We delivered consistent, high-quality trainings averaging 15 participants, and supported Delegates in building more strategic and diverse teams that expanded local capacity and strengthened partnerships. Delegates represented RC at key national events, including 25 Delegates and Associates at RCUSA Advocacy Days, 16 RC members at Welcoming Interactive, and more than 20 Delegates and staff at the National Immigrant Inclusion Conference. We also supported 25 Delegate-led World Refugee Day events through sponsorships, etc.

  Expenses $171,136

• In 2024, Refugee Congress and the US Refugee Advisory Board (USRAB)a partnership between Refugee Congress, Refugee Council USA, and Georgetown Universitycontinued to expand global engagement through collaboration with UNHCR and participation in multistakeholder pledges focused on resettlement advocacy, meaningful refugee participation, and family reunification. Following the Global Refugee Forum (GRF), we worked closely with UNHCR, including co-hosting a debrief with the Regional Americas Office, and joined the first session of a new discussion series, Refugees and Migrants in the Americas: A Discussion about a New Framework for Collaborative Action. Refugee Congress and USRAB also participated in the 2024 Working Group on Resettlement in Sydney and the Consultations on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways in Geneva, gaining greater visibility and offering substantive leadership as panelists and moderators.

  Expenses $84,761

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

15 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202523219349324547

Check it against the return as filed: the GivingTuesday Data Lake hosts a public copy of the original XML.

The source document this was parsed from is served over the API, which is where bulk and document access live.