We are building the world's leading center for the preservation, study, advocacy, and protection of female-headed households in real-time displacement. This is our living record of accountability.
Access Latest Reports"The way a policy is written tells you exactly who the people writing it were willing to hear."
Impressions generated across eleven platforms, amplifying the voices of female-headed households globally.
Women from Goma, Nakivale, Gaza, Cox's Bazar, and beyond sharing their truths.
Raw oral history audio protected and prepared for permanent university preservation.
Transcribed testimony translating directly into historical record and policy action.
Footprint expanding across DR Congo, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh, South Africa, Uganda, & the West Bank.
Explore reports on our oral history work, institutional development, and financial stewardship. Our reporting evolves as we strengthen our documentation and accountability.
Covering: Summer 2025 — June 2026
A revised account of our founding period, early oral history collections, and the distinction between organizational cash activity, volunteer support, and externally financed professional services.
Covering July — December 2026. Includes the Nigeria Art Exhibit launch and ARWNET Mass Collection updates.
Transitioning to comprehensive 12-month reporting cycles.
Documented organizational expenditures are reported separately from volunteer contributions and professional services financed outside The Refugee Archive.
The categories shown reflect the amounts retained in our revised founding report. Financial reconciliation is ongoing; this summary is not an audited financial statement.
Includes administrative and operations costs, art programming, social media, software, podcast programming, FHH policy trackers, the annual journal, and roundtable webinars.
Percentages show each category’s share of the amounts listed above, not a reconciled total of the organization’s expenses.
The Refugee Archive began as a volunteer-supported initiative and entered its first full year as a registered nonprofit in 2026. Our programs have grown through private donations, crowdfunding, volunteer contributions, and professional services provided without charge to the nonprofit.
Our organizational finances reflect the money received and spent directly by The Refugee Archive. Professional services financed through separate business arrangements are not included in the organization's cash expenditures.
Individual donors provide financial support for our programs, oral history collections, research, and operations.
Public campaigns help finance specific projects and support the preservation of testimony from displaced single mothers and female-headed households.
Independent professional services have been made available to support our programs without direct payment from The Refugee Archive. These contributions help sustain our work while we establish a broader funding base.
University students, researchers, archivists, and professionals contribute their time and expertise to our programs and organizational development.
The Refugee Archive maintains separate organizational bank accounts and financial records. Our financial reporting distinguishes cash revenue and expenditures from volunteer contributions and professional services financed outside the nonprofit.
Our Founder and Executive Director serves without compensation from The Refugee Archive.
Beginning in 2027, we intend to expand our capacity to pay for professional services directly through the organization's accounts, supported by grants, individual donations, and other charitable funding.
Our financial reports and organizational updates document our development as a nonprofit and our commitment to responsible financial management.
We are actively seeking sponsorship to unlock the ARWNET Mass Collection (52 orgs in 20 countries), continue work in Uganda, and unpause the Goma Oral History Project.