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NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA

EIN 47-5342860 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$4,329,057
Expenses 2025
$6,523,069

Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1000
Street
1025 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 1103

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 · 2025

Mission

THE NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA (NRC USA) IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT WAS INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN OCTOBER 2015 AND COMMENCED OPERATIONS DURING 2016. NRC USA WAS ESTABLISHED WITH TWO PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: RAISING MONEY FOR THE NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL'S (NRC'S) OVERSEAS PROGRAMS THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF CONFLICT-AFFECTED REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE AND PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN POLICY AND TECHNICAL ADVICE TO THE ADMINISTRATION, US CONGRESS, AND PEER NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS. NRC USA IS ALSO A RESOURCE TO UNIVERSITIES, THINK TANKS, AND THE PUBLIC ON HUMANITARIAN ISSUES AND SEEKS FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH US BASED INDIVIDUALS, FOUNDATIONS, AND CORPORATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE PART III, LINE 1.

  • YOUTH, LIVELIHOOD AND EDUCATIONTHE NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA RECEIVED FUNDS TO SUPPORT NRC'S IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS AND CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TWO-GENERATION YOUTH LIVELIHOODS, ECONOMIC INCLUSION, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, AND QUALITY EDUCATION IN EMERGENCY CONTEXTS.

    Expenses $2,953,856 · Grants $2,953,856

  • PROGRAM SUPPORT AND COMPLIANCE THE NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA ASSISTS THE NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL'S FIELD PROGRAMS IN APPLYING FOR CRITICAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT. NRC USA STAFF ALSO SUPPORT IN ENSURING COMPLIANCE, FINANCIAL AND PROGRAMMATIC REPORTING, AND ADVISE ON PROGRAMS FUNDED BY THE US GOVERNMENT AND US-BASED FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATE DONORS.

    Expenses $887,345

  • TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIONTHE NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA RECEIVED FUNDS TO SUPPORT NRC'S IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES TO IMPROVE THE SPEED AND QUALITY OF NRC'S ABILITY TO ANTICIPATE HUMANITARIAN NEEDS AND DELIVER PRINCIPLED LIFESAVING ASSISTANCE.

    Expenses $689,846 · Grants $689,846

  • COUNTRY BASED HUMANITARIAN

    Expenses $490,955 · Grants $490,955

  • EDUCATION AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT

    Expenses $201,257 · Grants $201,257

  • ADVOCACY

    Expenses $182,812

  • HUMANITARIAN ACCESS IN HARD TO REACH AREAS

    Expenses $133,544

  • ACCESS NEGOTIATION

    Expenses $59,632

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • MIA HAUGEN

    CHAIRMAN (UNTIL 05/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CARLA KOPPELL

    CHAIRMAN (FROM 05/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • BRIAN KOMAR

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK C STORELLA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GER DUANY

    BOARD MEMBER (UNTIL 12/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAMILLA WASZINK

    BOARD MEMBER/NRC PNP DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN KLUGE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSY TOLKAN

    BOARD MEMBER (UNTIL 06/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BERNICE ROMERO

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $214,236
    From this org
    $195,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,861
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,375
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,903
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,958
    Filer's total
    $214,236

  • JOCHEN RIEGG

    GLBL. LEAD HUMANITARIAN ACCESS

    Total calculated
    $134,620
    From this org
    $120,468
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,152
    Hours/week
    40

  • AARON GERSHOWITZ

    SR. INST. PARTNERSHIP ADVISER

    Total calculated
    $130,455
    From this org
    $114,681
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,774
    Hours/week
    40

  • NATHAN STEVENS

    GLBL. LEAD CASH & MARKET SYSTEMS

    Total calculated
    $125,212
    From this org
    $120,396
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,816
    Hours/week
    40

  • LEA KRIVCHENIA

    GLBL. LEAD PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE

    Total calculated
    $121,372
    From this org
    $108,277
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,095
    Hours/week
    40

  • DHABIE BROWN - SR US ADV

    & POL. ADV. (UNTIL 11/2025)

    Total calculated
    $121,046
    From this org
    $106,584
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,462
    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,329,057
    Expenses
    $6,523,069
    Contributions
    $4,282,036
    Grants paid
    $4,335,914
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,639,823
    Expenses
    $7,773,265
    Contributions
    $6,639,823
    Grants paid
    $4,839,130
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,496,427
    Expenses
    $7,024,248
    Contributions
    $6,496,427
    Grants paid
    $4,558,687
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,786,662
    Expenses
    $4,512,048
    Contributions
    $8,786,662
    Grants paid
    $2,716,697

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
    $2,192,600
    Expenses
    $2,308,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,430,201

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,488,831
    Expenses
    $2,436,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,578,588

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,177,683
    Expenses
    $953,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,489,166

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $879,259
    Expenses
    $744,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,954

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $652,361
    Expenses
    $615,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,200

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $488,600
    Expenses
    $402,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,749

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 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Joel Charny
Mailing address
1400 16th Stree NW Suite 210Washington DC 20036

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.