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REFUGEE ARTISAN INITIATIVE

EIN 82-0961407 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$1,424,228
Expenses 2024
$1,243,384

Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1200
Street
12337 LAKE CITY WAY NE

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

RAI partners with refugee and immigrant women to foster an inclusive, prosperous transition to the US through artisan skills training and micro business development.

Activities or mission (Part I)

RAI partners with refugee and immigrant women to foster an inclusive prosperous transition to the US through artisan skills training and micro business development

  • Expanded staff and resources to strengthen program delivery-offering instruction to more artisans and taking key steps toward building a comprehensive workforce development program that supports refugee and immigrant women while connecting them to resources and new opportunities. Also launched an innovative product line of recycling bags made from upcycled vinyl billboards, expanding fairly paid work opportunities for artisans and diverting thousands of pounds of plastic from landfills.

    Expenses $899,620

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • MING-MING TUNG-EDELMAN

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $108,546
    From this org
    $108,546
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • YUMIKO DAMASHEK

    Board ChairEx Comm Ch

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • HEATHER BRIDGES

    Vice Board ChairTreas

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • BRITTANY MEHL

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • HAYDEN BIXBY

    Governance Comm Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KATHI LENTZSCH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LEANG CHUNG

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ELTA RATLIFF

    Develop Comm Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CLEO ESCAREZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MAJU QURESHI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SHANNON WALKER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ZIBA-KABOLI GERBRANDS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $1,424,228
    Expenses
    $1,243,384
    Contributions
    $1,304,341
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,100,599
    Expenses
    $1,053,094
    Contributions
    $989,286
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,094,632
    Expenses
    $1,075,343
    Contributions
    $982,505
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,578,459
    Expenses
    $705,931
    Contributions
    $1,576,654
    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
    $340,256
    Expenses
    $346,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $308,359

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $451,910
    Expenses
    $201,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $303,189

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 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Ming Ming Tung Edelman
Mailing address
4616 25th Avnue NE Unit 428Seattle WA 98105

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.