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American Immigration Council

The council strives to strengthen the united states by shaping immigration policies and practices through innovative programs, cutting-edge research, and strategic legal and advocacy efforts grounded in evidence, compassion, justice and fairness.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Crime & Legal$2.9MHuman Services$571kCivil Rights$538kCommunity Improvement$429kEducation$375kPhilanthropy$330kEnvironment$300kReligion$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$27,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK$45,000
SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO$27,000
AMANI FAMILY SERVICES$27,000
BALTIMORE COUNTY MARYLAND$27,000
CITY OF SOUTH BEND$19,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $544k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS: $20k → 12%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $22k → 16%THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON: $66k → 13%US TOGETHER INC: $15k → 15%GLOBAL CLEVELAND INC: $75k → 17%YMCA OF THE USA: $125k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON: $20k → 13%YMCA OF THE USA: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
DC
OK
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 11 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
31

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+27%

Still filing today

91%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AI
    AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +52%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +297%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $225k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +63%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +351%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

Civil Rights
2
Texas Immigration Law Council

It is the mission of the Texas Immigration Law Council to protect and promote the basic rights of immigrants and refugees of all nationalities within Texas.

Civil Rights
3
Immigrant Connection

Ensuring greater access to high-quality low-cost immigration legal services across the United States through local immigrant connection sites across the country. Our sites based in both rural and urban areas are established in…

Human Services
4
Immigrant Legal Resource Center

To work with and educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to continue to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.

Human Services
5
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
6
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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7
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
8
Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers Inc C/O Celine Kennelly

Ciic provides service to the irish/irish american community across the us in partnership with its direct service member centers, thus impacting constituents. ciic provides a national perspective of issues facing irish immigrants, while…

Human Services
9
Carolina Immigration Law

Provides immigration legal services to persons who are otherwise financially incapable of obtaining such services.

Crime & Legal
10
Valley Immigrant Advocates

Valley immigrant advocates (via) provides primarily immigration legal services, which include: consultation with clients and prospective clients on immigration laws and regulations, and available immigration benefits, etc

Crime & Legal
11
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

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12
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area

The immigration institute of the bay area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is Needham Diversity Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Senior Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Ymca Youth DevelopmentEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%53%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,519

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION — $1,941,555 · OtherAMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE — $195,316 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEPARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND — $125,000 · OtherWESTERN STATES CENTER — $220,000 · OtherWESTERN STATES CENTERAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS — $125,000 · Other+16 more — $658,500 · Other+16 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $471,272 · Civil RightsROCKY MOUNTA…CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC — $95,625 · Civil RightsCATHOLIC LEG…SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $39,500 · Civil RightsSOMOS UN PUE…FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK — $30,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $7,200 · Civil RightsNational Council of YMCAs of the USA — $225,000 · Human ServicesNational Co…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CH…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC — $86,761 · Human ServicesINTERNATION…GLOBAL CLEVELAND — $75,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CLEV…TAPESTRY FARMS — $75,000 · Human ServicesTAPESTRY FA…REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES & EDUCATION — $22,000 · Human Services+2 more — $35,000 · Human Services+2 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $225,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE BEREA INC — $75,000 · EnvironmentDENVER URBAN GARDENS — $75,000 · EnvironmentCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities — $225,000 · EducationOZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $75,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationHOPEWELL FUND — $330,000 · PhilanthropyCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE — $159,650 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $42,185 · Crime & LegalVECINA — $27,067 · Crime & LegalAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $27,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,265,371Civil Rights$643,597Human Services$618,761Environment$375,000Education$375,000Philanthropy$330,000Crime & Legal$260,902

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION — $1,941,555 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK — $471,272 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $330,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA — $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities — $225,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER — $220,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE — $159,650 over 3y, 10% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND — $125,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC — $95,625 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC — $86,761 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetOZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $75,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSUSTAINABLE BEREA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNEEDHAM DIVERSITY INITIATIVE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetMAS FUTBOL FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND — $75,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTAPESTRY FARMS — $75,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGLOBAL DETROIT — $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS — $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $42,185 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $39,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK — $30,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetVECINA — $27,067 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES — $27,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES & EDUCATION — $22,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southwest Kansas — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRural Womens Health Project Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUS TOGETHER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKESHORE ETHNIC DIVERSITY ALLIANCE — $12,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGREATER FORT WAYNE METRO CHAMBER ALLIANCE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Borealis PhilanthropyImpactassetsincWelcoming America IncUS Committee for Refu…National League of Ci…The Ford FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundWK Kellogg FoundationTides FoundationBoston Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…
Borealis PhilanthropyMN16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Impactassetsinc · Welcoming America Inc · US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc · National League of Cities Institute Inc · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Immigration Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Willamette University — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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