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FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC

EIN 20-1989492 CLARKSTON, GA

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Revenue 2024
$2,951,021
Expenses 2024
$2,755,494

Program services were 77.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K31
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 548

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

FRIENDS OF REFUGEES, INC. IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ORGANIZED IN 2005 FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING REFUGEES BUILD ABUNDANT NEW LIVES IN AMERICA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FRIENDS OF REFUGEES'S MISSION IS TO HELP REFUGEES BUILD ABUNDANT NEW LIVES IN AMERICA.

  • REFUGEE FAMILY LITERACY: PROVIDES ENGLISH LITERACY EDUCATION FOR REFUGEE WOMEN ALONG WITH HIGH QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CLASSES FOR THEIR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 5.

    Expenses $622,065 · Revenue $360

  • EMBRACE REFUGEE BIRTH SUPPORT: PROVIDES PRE- AND POST-NATAL EDUCATION AND SUPPORT TO REFUGEE WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NEW MOTHERS.

    Expenses $580,423 · Revenue $5,671

  • YOUTH PROGRAMS: PROVIDE A SUMMER EXPERIENCE AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS.

    Expenses $112,636

  • PARWANA: EQUIPS WOMEN WITH THE BASIC ENGLISH SPEAKING, LISTENING, READING AND WRITING SKILLS NEEDED TO NAVIGATE LIFE IN THE US, AND TO OPEN OPPORTUNITIES AND OPTIONS FOR WOMEN BY STRENGTHENING THEIR COMMUNICATION SKILLS, CONFIDENCE, AND COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS. JOLLY AVENUE GARDEN: OPERATES A COMMUNITY GARDEN FOR REFUGEES ALONG WITH NUTRITION, OUTDOOR EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING.START ME CLARKSTON: PROVIDES A BUSINESS ACCELERATOR PROGRAM FOR LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS.

    Expenses $831,775 · Revenue $4,282

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.

  • Joseph Breedon

    ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brian Chang

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lee Beth Burge

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Daniel Allman

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Helen Shuford

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dinah Lee

    ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Manuel Rodriguez

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ly Douglass

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERGOVE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tamara Harper

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gregory Skowronski

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERGOVE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • April Shaffer

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lauren Boden

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • James Bouchard

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alison Laforge

    GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carroll Jester

    ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin Kipfer

    ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Joni Per-Lee

    ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sharell Thomas-Hodge

    ADVISORY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kendralyn Jeffreys

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $111,652
    From this org
    $111,652
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Marissa Delbrune

    SENIOR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $67,523
    From this org
    $67,523
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Hannah McCord

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $54,836
    From this org
    $54,836
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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
    $2,951,021
    Expenses
    $2,755,494
    Contributions
    $2,926,384
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,569,162
    Expenses
    $2,138,012
    Contributions
    $2,497,215
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,837,734
    Expenses
    $2,570,695
    Contributions
    $1,815,592
    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

    Revenue
    $1,947,998
    Expenses
    $1,864,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,604,755
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,947,998
    Expenses
    $1,864,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,604,755
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,621,851
    Expenses
    $1,777,175
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,188,810
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,201,094
    Expenses
    $1,762,619
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,277,906
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,806,405
    Expenses
    $1,617,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,697,248
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,807,942
    Expenses
    $1,467,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,513,623
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,763,090
    Expenses
    $1,077,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,169,105
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $963,851
    Expenses
    $835,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $480,148
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $613,236
    Expenses
    $522,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $341,723
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,811
    Expenses
    $382,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $251,375

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 11 November 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.