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REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT

EIN 83-1205519 AMARILLO, TX

Revenue 2024
$609,707
Expenses 2024
$477,994

Program services were 62.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P84
Classification
1200
Street
3107 PLAINS BLVD STE 200

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

Refugee Language Project uses language as a doorway to welcome displaced people for the flourishing of the community and the glory of God. We welcome refugees through programs that overcome language barriers and honor cultural diversity.

  • Literacy. Refugee Language Project provided a bi-weekly daytime ESL program, a bi-weekly evening ESL program, and a once weekly adult literacy program to 100 participants from 19 language groups via 198 hours of instruction. Expenses included wages for a language services coordinator, instructors, and childcare, in addition to program materials and occupancy expenses.

    Expenses $126,792

  • Culture. Refugee Language Project published 2 bilingual storybooks telling the life stories of Amarillo's refugees. Additionally, Refugee Language Project provided 3 culture trainings to 3 local entities. Program expenses included wages for the executive director, marketing director, contract artists and translators, and printing costs.

    Expenses $69,997

  • Translation. Refugee Language Project offered interpreting services for 143 appointments in 17 languages during 2024. Program expenses included wages for the language services coordinator and contract translators.

    Expenses $55,752 · Revenue $1,420

  • Welcome. Refugee Language Project engaged with local area churches to equip them to better serve refugees. Refugee Language Project held 3 trainings serving 20 volunteers from local churches. Additionally, Refugee Language Project completed 8 speaking engagements at 8 local churches. Program expenses included wages for the church engagement coordinator, food, print materials, and contract translators.

    Expenses $28,335

  • Community Programs. Refugee Language Project operated a multi-cultural community center (The PLACE) that met the social service needs of recently arrived refugees. The PLACE saw 10,685 adult and child visitors during 2024. Additionally, Refugee Language Project conducted community table lunches to participants in our programs. Program expenses included occupancy expenses, food, and program materials.

    Expenses $16,588

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.

  • Ryan Pennington

    President/Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $123,571
    From this org
    $94,032
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,539
    Hours/week
    50

  • Crystal Pennington

    Secretary/Marketing Director

    Total calculated
    $35,555
    From this org
    $35,555
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Barry Wilson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Ritchie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zoy Langford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrew Hay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doyle Corder

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $609,707
    Expenses
    $477,994
    Contributions
    $613,557
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $455,698
    Expenses
    $508,143
    Contributions
    $451,719
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $478,786
    Expenses
    $438,813
    Contributions
    $476,145
    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
    $263,483
    Expenses
    $161,890
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,153

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Ryan Pennington
Mailing address
3701 S SoncyAmarillo TX 79119

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

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