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Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

$201k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$823kInternational$172kCivil Rights$145kHuman Services$80kPublic Benefit$32kReligion$31kEnvironment$13k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $155,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $201,359 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,359 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.
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Home is Here NOLA$20,000
Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigration Icom$15,000
Common Foundation$15,000
Park Avenue Baptist Church Incorporated$15,000
First Friends of New Jersey and New York Corporation$15,000
The Translatin Coalition$15,000
Center for Civic Policy$15,000
Immigrant Services and Legal Advocacy$15,000
Juntos$15,000
Alliance for Global Justice$15,000
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 (FY20–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigration Icom: $15k → 11%Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights: $5k → 14%Home is Here NOLA: $20k → 23%Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigration ICOM: $12k → 11%Latino Union Inc: $21k → 14%Juntos (v): $29k → 22%Juntos: $15k → 22%Centro de Trabajadores Unidos United Workers' Center: $8k → 14%Juntos: $10k → 22%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
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$943k · 20 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
23

Total granted

$943k
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+19%

Still filing today

90%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • AA
    ADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $68k · revenue +25%
  • Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy
    3× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +139%
  • OC
    Organized Communities Against Deportations
    2× · 2021–2022 · $46k · revenue +322%

Funded once

  • LU
    Latino Union of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +46%
  • NA
    Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -37%
  • PY
    PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -43%
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
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.

Civil Rights
2
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
3
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
4
Southern California Immigration Project

Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.

International
5
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…

—
6
Immigrant Defenders Law Center

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.

Crime & Legal
7
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.

Civil Rights
8
Pueblo Unido Pdx

Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.

Human Services
9
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

—
10
Alianza Americas

The mission of Alianza Americas is to bring about a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable way of life for Latino immigrant communities living in the United States and across the americas. By working transnationally with partners from…

International
11
Latino Political Network
—
12
Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance

AMOR is an alliance of community based grassroots organizations mobilizing at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status to prevent, to respond to, and to end state violence against our community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Global Justice Corp; the most unlike its peers is Calvary Episcopal Church Foundation 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

43 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. 43 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
21/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $95,500 · OtherInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring …ADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTER: $68,000 · OtherADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTERCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $45,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC: $40,100 · OtherGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INCPARK AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH: $31,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCHIMMIGRANT ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $27,000 · OtherNorthwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education: $20,167 · OtherCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $31,500 · OtherCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICYSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 · OtherEL REFUGIO MINISTRY INC: $23,000 · Other+15 more: $168,442 · Other+15 moreAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $156,600 · InternationalAlliance for Glob…FREE MIGRATION PROJECT: $46,000 · InternationalFREE MIGRATION PR…MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $58,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN …Organized Communities Against Deportations: $46,250 · Civil RightsOrganized Communi…FAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $26,000 · Civil RightsFAMILIES FOR FREE…THE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSLATIN CO…RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $15,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ORGANIZING …ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $10,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL NETWORK FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS: $10,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $8,138 · Civil RightsEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $7,000 · Civil RightsJUNTOS: $53,700 · Human ServicesJUNTOSMinnesota Coalition on Immigration Reform: $27,000 · Human ServicesMinnesota C…Latino Union of Chicago: $21,000 · Human ServicesLatino Unio…HOME IS HERE NOLA: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOME IS HER…CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $8,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE T…GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON Foundation dba Our COMMON Foundation: $43,500 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentGot Green: $12,500 · EnvironmentImmigration Services and Legal Advocacy: $46,500 · Crime & LegalFIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION: $15,000 · Crime & LegalInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity: $44,000 · Employment
Other$574,709International$202,600Civil Rights$195,388Human Services$134,700Environment$81,000Crime & Legal$61,500Employment$44,000

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 budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $156,600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $95,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTER: $68,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $58,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUNTOS: $53,700 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetImmigration Services and Legal Advocacy: $46,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOrganized Communities Against Deportations: $46,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFREE MIGRATION PROJECT: $46,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity: $44,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMON Foundation dba Our COMMON Foundation: $43,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC: $40,100 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $31,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMinnesota Coalition on Immigration Reform: $27,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetIMMIGRANT ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $27,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $26,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL REFUGIO MINISTRY INC: $23,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLatino Union of Chicago: $21,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNorthwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education: $20,167 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOME IS HERE NOLA: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE: $17,138 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $17,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Louis Inter Faith Committee on Latin America: $17,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFIRST FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCircle of Health International: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGot Green: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENSHO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $8,138 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $7,637 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACTION OF GREATER LANSING: $5,000 over 1y, 8.5% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyProteus Fund IncTides CenterThe Heising-Simons Fo…Tides FoundationSolidago FoundationNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationImmigrant Legal Resou…Groundswell Fund
NEO Philanthropy IncNY44× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Center · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Tides Foundation · Solidago Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Groundswell Fund

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 Detention Watch Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Detention Watch Network. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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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    How do I get to Detention Watch Network?

    Find your warmest path to Detention Watch Network 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 48 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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