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WOMEN REFUGEE CARE

EIN 47-4084932 PROVIDENCE, RI

Largest nonprofits in Rhode Island

Revenue 2024
$1,275,851
Expenses 2024
$1,382,475

Program services were 89.3% 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
570 BROAD 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

Providing services and support to refugee families from the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Congo, Burundi and Rwanda)- referred to as ECGLC- who reside in Rhode Island, based on the belief that strong and informed women and mothers promote healthy and productive families and communities. WRC has a special focus on women, girls and promoting gender equality.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Providing services and support to refugee families from the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Congo, Burundi and Rwanda)- referred to as ECGLC- who reside in Rhode Island, based on the belief that strong and informed women and mothers promote healthy and productive families and communities. Women Refugee Care has a special focus on women, girls and promoting gender equality,

  • Welcome Program: Women Refugee Care provides immediate support and necessary items for refugees when they first arrive in Rhode Island to help with their transition into the US. This program also provides ongoing food assistance.

    Expenses $973,461 · Grants $606,704

  • Education program and youth mentoring: Women Refugee Care works to assist families so that every refugee child from the Congo is in school and learning. This work entails sensitizing school administrators and teachers on the unique background of refugee children. It also involves educating parents and children about the education system. Women Refugee Care will also act as an advocate for the student and provide tutoring support to the children. Women Refugee Care also provides youth mentoring and connects volunteers, college studnts and refugee youth through workshops.

    Expenses $156,624 · Grants $92,413

  • Womens Empowerment Program: Acknowledging women are the foundation of the community, Women Refugee Center takes specific actions to ensure they are informed and empowered to lead strong families and create healthy communities. Also enables particiaion in the Sewing Project.

    Expenses $104,362 · Grants $60,300

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.

  • Mary Ellen Lynch

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Keith Cooper

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David Weitz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Lauren Williams

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kihonga Musafiri

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Chuka Okoye

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mathew Lukusa

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Linford Fisher

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Lauren Motola Davis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Aline Binyunga Nzigire

    Co-Founder & executive Dir

    Total calculated
    $72,000
    From this org
    $72,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Clement Shabani

    Co-Founder & Program Director

    Total calculated
    $92,910
    From this org
    $75,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,910
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,275,851
    Expenses
    $1,382,475
    Contributions
    $1,282,702
    Grants paid
    $759,417
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $708,268
    Expenses
    $749,288
    Contributions
    $708,268
    Grants paid
    $300,921
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $703,080
    Expenses
    $635,566
    Contributions
    $703,080
    Grants paid
    $319,951

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

    Revenue
    $492,680
    Expenses
    $335,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,246

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,343
    Expenses
    $154,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $201,986

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $75,639
    Expenses
    $70,950
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,664

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Mary Ellen Lynch
Mailing address
570 Broad StreetProvidence RI 02907
Website
www.womensrefugeecare.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.