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THE REFUGEE EDUCATION CENTER

EIN 06-1770896 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2025
$3,041,373
Expenses 2025
$2,516,843

Program services were 71.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R22
Classification
2000
Street
2130 ENTERPRISE ST SE

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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Blerta Bushati

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nichole Northern

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rebecca Chabot

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rima Shah

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Daniel Brubaker

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Brandy Lovelady Mitchell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kara Van Dam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Paula Schuiteman-Bishop

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lisa Cooper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Erin VanMaanen

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $83,369
    From this org
    $79,405
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,964
    Hours/week
    40

  • Margaret Derrer

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $124,547
    From this org
    $123,671
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $876
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,041,373
    Expenses
    $2,516,843
    Contributions
    $2,981,265
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,778,352
    Expenses
    $2,057,132
    Contributions
    $2,763,726
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,455,639
    Expenses
    $1,943,610
    Contributions
    $1,444,202
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,648,288
    Expenses
    $2,022,526
    Contributions
    $1,646,746
    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
    $1,907,383
    Expenses
    $2,155,206
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,768,268

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,603,690
    Expenses
    $1,668,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,138,448

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,159,857
    Expenses
    $1,188,759
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,022,279

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,302,902
    Expenses
    $763,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,040,584

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $670,953
    Expenses
    $413,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $450,719

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,300
    Expenses
    $303,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,654

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $315,163
    Expenses
    $272,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $127,243

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $200,449
    Expenses
    $137,475
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,174

  • 2010 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $96,690
    Expenses
    $68,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,149

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 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Fadil Lugendo
Mailing address
8200 Amelia DrJenison MI 49428
Website
westmirefugee.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

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

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.