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ITHACA WELCOMES REFUGEES INC

EIN 82-1987282 ITHACA, NY

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Revenue 2024
$349,328
Expenses 2024
$258,425

Program services were 69.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P84
Classification
1000
Street
315 N CAYUGA ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Ithaca Welcomes Refugees is a volunteer-led community initiative that fosters a welcoming and fair environment for refugees and immigrants who come to our region. Our hope is that these efforts will continue the development of Ithaca as a welcoming host community in times of great global need.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Ithaca Welcomes Refugees partners with newly arrived refugees and immigrants as they rebuild their lives in Tompkins County.

  • GLOBAL ROOTS PLAY SCHOOL - IWRs Global Roots Play School was established to allow parents of children aged 18 month to 5 years to attend English as a Second Language ESL classes. This part-time school is a play-based, trauma-informed early childcare environment which primarily serves refugee and immigrant families. It is staffed by a part-time program director and part-time teachers. In 2024, 22 children were enrolled, allowing 41 caregivers to pursue their goals during school hours, most commonly by attending ESL classes. Children develop trusting relationships with adults outside the home, self-confidence, peer relationships, and kindergarten readiness.

    Expenses $96,698

  • RESPONSE PROJECTS - Response Projects are teams of 1-4 IWR volunteers assigned to each family or individual with whom IWR works. Each Response Team works with new arrivals towards self-expressed resettlement goals for a period ranging most commonly from 6 months to 2 years and represents the bulk of IWRs work. In 2024, Response Team volunteers supported 95 people. While volunteers are unpaid, through this program IWR provides newcomers with welcome cash assistance when they first arrive 9,000 in 2024, housing aid 29,524.21 in 2024, and miscellaneous financial support, most commonly used for driving lessons 7,144.20 in 2024.

    Expenses $67,853

  • IWR established a crisis fund in 2023 to respond to the loss of a father of a family of 6 who had arrived in the US mere weeks earlier. The father was meant to be the familys sole income earner. All four children were still in grade school in 2024. We continued to use the fund to cover some of the familys basic living expenses utilities, medical expenses, costs of paying for a pro bono lawyers fees related to court documents in the suit against the driver involved in the fathers accident in 2024 and the fund is available to help others in our service population during times of crisis.

    Expenses $8,082

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Casey Verderosa

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $47,180
    From this org
    $47,180
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Bronwyn Losey

    DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL ROOTS PLAY SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $19,359
    From this org
    $19,359
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Doug Stayman

    BOARD CHAIR, TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bridgette Nugent

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Florianna Blanton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Nate Foster

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mary Hutchens

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Saw Thu Ka Ee

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Christine Lemonda

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Pedro Molina

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Karen Schachere

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $349,328
    Expenses
    $258,425
    Contributions
    $331,019
    Grants paid
    $66,251
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $269,151
    Expenses
    $190,115
    Contributions
    $259,543
    Grants paid
    $46,699
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $131,317
    Expenses
    $100,292
    Contributions
    $124,897
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $116,314
    Expenses
    $48,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,167

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.