IRIS’s budget grew from approximately $4M in 2021 to approximately $8M in 2022 and is approximately $12M in 2023, due to an increasing demand for resettlement, new programs responding to the Afghan crisis and the war in Ukraine, greater government funding, and generous community support. Direct client aid represents over $1.5M of the IRIS budget. Personnel expenses total $9.7M. Approximately 83% of IRIS staff time is devoted to client service. Case Management is 43% of the IRIS budget, Education & Employment 20%, Fundraising 6%, Legal 10%, Community Engagement 5%, Health & Wellness 5%. For the past six years, IRIS deepened and expanded its service to refugees and other immigrants in Connecticut. Now, we are gearing up to welcome more refugees than ever before, all while ensuring that migrants in the state of Connecticut have access to high-quality care. Immigrants fuel Connecticut’s social, economic and cultural growth and they always will. IRIS will be here to serve them.
