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Colectiva Legal del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

$3.3M
Granted FY2022
54
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Human Services$837kCivil Rights$520kCrime & Legal$405kCommunity Improvement$305kHealth$245kEducation$235kYouth Development$200kArts & Culture$173kOther$0
02FY2022 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $3,022,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,259,324 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $236,824 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k28 grants · $638k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.4M
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nuestra Casa$155,000
Korean Community Services Center$120,000
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo$100,000
Wenatchee Immigrant Justice$100,000
Pacific Islander Community Association of WA$100,000
WA West African Center$100,000
Cielo Project Radio Ranch$100,000
Cafe$100,000
Channel ATV$100,000
Unidos Nueva Alianza Foundation$100,000
Comunidades sin Fronteras$100,000
Teenager Plus$100,000
People of Color Community Coalition$100,000
Latino Educational Training Institute$100,000
Hispanic Business Professional Association$100,000
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 (FY20–22, $952k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Cielo Project Radio Ranch: $100k → 9%Pacific Islander Health Board of WA: $30k → 9%Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center: $60k → 10%Nuestra Casa: $155k → 11%Mujeres In Action: $30k → 12%Pacific County Immigrant Support: $40k → 14%Unidos Nueva Alianza Foundation: $100k → 14%La Casa Hogar Mutual Aid: $30k → 17%Room One: $30k → 17%CIELO (Centro Integral Educativo Latino de Olympia): $15k → 9%NUESTRA CASA & LA CASA HOGAR MUTUAL AID: $10k → 11%PACIFIC COUNTY IMMIGRANT SUPPORT: $10k → 14%The Support Center: $60k → 17%CAIR - Council on American-Islamic Relations of Washington State: $20k → 9%CIELO (CENTRO INTEGRAL EDUCATIVO LATINO DE OLYMPIA): $10k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $20k → 9%Kenya Diaspora Communities Association: $20k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $12k → 9%Para Los Ninos: $20k → 9%Teenager Plus: $100k → 9%East African Community Services: $20k → 9%Utopia Seattle: $20k → 9%CISC-Chinese Information & Service Center: $20k → 9%Horn of Africa Services: $20k → 9%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.
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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$901k · 11 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$901k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+54%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • NC
    Nuestra CASA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $165k · revenue +97% · 28% of their budget
  • KC
    KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $155k · revenue +115%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF FAMILY EDUCATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $135k · revenue +284%

Funded once

  • GG
    Got Green
    one grant, 2021 · $81k · revenue -74%
  • CT
    COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • ML
    MOSES LAKE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +54%
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
3
We Are Comunidad

Comunidad seeks to build community, cultural pride, and economic opportunities for the Latino community on Vashon Island and its neighboring communities.

Human Services
4
Wakulima Usa

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…

Food & Nutrition
5
Pueblo Unido Pdx

Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.

Human Services
6
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
7
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
8
Tacoma Community House

Tacoma Community House creates opportunities for immigrants, refugees and other community members in the Puget Sound regions through comprehensive services focused on self-sufficiency, inclusion and advocacy.

Human Services
9
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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10
Immigrant Womens Community Center

The mission of the Immigrant Women's Community Center is to provide community building, training, and direct services, primarily for immigrant women and their families, promoting financial independence, emotional health, and physical…

—
11
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
12
Eastside Legal Assistance Program

Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the legal system more accessible to those most in need by providing free or low-cost yet high quality civil legal services to low-income residents of…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; the most unlike its peers is Kenyan Diaspora Communities As. 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

38 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. 38 of the 58 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Channel ATV: $100,000 · OtherChannel ATVHispanic Disability Support WWA: $100,000 · OtherHispanic Disability Support WWAComunidades sin Fronteras: $100,000 · OtherComunidades sin FronterasHISPANIC BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherHISPANIC BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONWenatchee Immigrant Justice: $100,000 · OtherWenatchee Immigrant JusticePEOPLE OF COLOR COMMUNITY COALITION: $100,000 · OtherPEOPLE OF COLOR COMMUNITY COALITIONEMPOWER NEXT GENERATIONS INC: $100,000 · OtherEMPOWER NEXT GENERATIONS INCVILLA COMUNITARIA: $80,000 · OtherVILLA COMUNITARIACentro Americano: $80,000 · OtherCentro AmericanoSUNNYSLOPE CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherThe Firm Outreach: $50,000 · OtherCentral Washington Justice For Our Neighbors: $95,000 · OtherCentral Washington Justice For Our NeighborsAMIGOS DE SEATTLE: $80,000 · OtherAMIGOS DE SEATTLE+14 more: $307,500 · Other+14 moreNuestra CASA: $165,000 · Human ServicesNuestra CASACIELO PROJECT AT RADIO RANCH: $125,027 · Human ServicesCIELO PROJECT AT RADIO RANCHTEENAGERS PLUS: $100,000 · Human ServicesTEENAGERS PLUSUnidos Nueva Alianza Foundation: $100,000 · Human ServicesUnidos Nueva Alianza FoundationTHE SUPPORT CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE SUPPORT CENTERKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENT…PACIFIC COUNTY IMMIGRANT SUPPORT: $50,000 · Human Services+12 more: $291,500 · Human Services+12 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF FAMILY EDUCATION: $134,778 · EducationTHE COMMUN…LATINO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE: $100,000 · EducationLATINO EDU…CASA LATINA: $80,000 · EducationCASA LATIN…Pacific Islander Community Association of WA: $100,000 · Civil RightsCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $100,000 · Civil RightsAPIC SPOKANE ASIANS FOR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION IN SPOKANE: $30,000 · Civil RightsKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $155,000 · Community ImprovementWashington West African Center: $100,000 · Arts & CultureEthiopian Community in Seattle: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWest African Community Council: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGot Green: $81,000 · EnvironmentFuse Innovation Fund: $30,000 · Environment
Other$1,462,500Human Services$951,527Education$314,778Civil Rights$230,000Community Improvement$155,000Arts & Culture$140,000Environment$111,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNuestra CASA: $165,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $155,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF FAMILY EDUCATION: $134,778 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCIELO PROJECT AT RADIO RANCH: $125,027 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetLATINO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWashington West African Center: $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCentral Washington Justice For Our Neighbors: $95,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetGot Green: $81,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetAMIGOS DE SEATTLE: $80,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetVILLA COMUNITARIA: $80,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCASA LATINA: $80,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SUPPORT CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPACIFIC COUNTY IMMIGRANT SUPPORT: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $31,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRoom One: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPacific Islander Health Board of Washington: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMIA MUJERES IN ACTION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEthiopian Community in Seattle: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCouncil On American-Islamic Relations: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTRE HERMANOS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWest African Community Council: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEast African Community Services: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWashington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetChinese Information and Service Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOSES LAKE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Inatai FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestSeattle FoundationWashington Progress F…School's Out Washingt…Fair Work CenterSheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Social Justice Fund N…Front and CenteredLatino Community Fund…United Way of King Co…Legal Foundation of W…
Inatai FoundationWA68.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Seattle Foundation · Washington Progress Fund · School's Out Washington · Fair Work Center · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Front and Centered · Latino Community Fund of Washington State · United Way of King County · Legal Foundation of Washington

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 Colectiva Legal del Pueblo funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colectiva Legal del Pueblo. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Colectiva Legal del Pueblo through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 58 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $110k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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