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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its 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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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 & LegalEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +578%
  • 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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
3
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
4
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
5
Luminus Network Inc

To help ensure equitable access to legal immigration services and community resources and opportunities for immigrants.

Human Services
6
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
7
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

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8
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
9
Community Center for Immigrants Incorporated

Community Center for Immigrants facilitates integration and fosters self-sufficiency in the immigrant community by providing English and Citizenship education programs and immigration legal services. Our goal is to develop the literacy and…

Education
10
Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska

To empower immigrants and refugees to live confidently through high-quality legal representation, resettlement, and social work and to create welcoming communities through education and advocacy.

Human Services
11
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
12
New York Justice for Our Neighbors

Immigration law & justice new york welcomes immigrants into our communities with compassion dignity and love by providing free high-quality immigration legal services offering education to communities of faith and the public and engaging…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 moreCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities: $225,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationOZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $75,000 · EducationTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $225,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE BEREA INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $75,000 · EnvironmentHOPEWELL 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$618,761Education$375,000Environment$375,000Philanthropy$330,000Crime & Legal$260,902

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities: $225,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 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 budgetNEEDHAM DIVERSITY INITIATIVE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetGLOBAL CLEVELAND: $75,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAPESTRY FARMS: $75,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGLOBAL DETROIT: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE BEREA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetOZARK LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMAS FUTBOL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 100% 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 budgetGREATER FORT WAYNE METRO CHAMBER ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKESHORE ETHNIC DIVERSITY ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Immigration Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Immigration Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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