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Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees
GCIR works to ensure that funders have up to date information, opportunities to strategize and peer connections to enhance their grantmaking and impact.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tides Center VietRise | $90,000 |
| Social Good Fund Contra Costa | $90,000 |
| CA Collaborative for Immigran | $90,000 |
| Inland Coalition For Immigran | $90,000 |
| Central Valley Immigrant Inte | $90,000 |
| African Advocacy Network | $90,000 |
| Partnership for the Advancet | $75,000 |
| Pangea Legal Services | $75,000 |
| Todec Legal Center | $75,000 |
| Centro Binacional Para El Des | $75,000 |
| Texas Latino Pride | $50,000 |
| Michigan United | $50,000 |
| Este Poder | $50,000 |
| Progressive Lship Alliance | $50,000 |
| Louisiana Org for Refugees | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +139% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $982k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NBNorth Bay Organizing Project5× · 2017–2021 · $7.3M · revenue +22% · 89% of their budget
- CTCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER2× · 2017–2018 · $226k · revenue +261%
- TATexas Access to Justice Foundation2× · 2018–2022 · $210k · revenue +764%
Funded once
- KIKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +223% · 65% of their budget
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $966k · revenue -15%- LALOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMYone grant, 2020 · $896k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Legal, immigration and community organizing
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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.
Lcf exists to unleash the civic and economic power of latinos in california. lcf fulfills the mission by building a movement of critically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in latino-led orgs, and increasing civic participation of…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
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…
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.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigrant Legal Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health Foundation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
89 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. 89 of the 91 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds North Bay Organizing Project ↗
- Who funds KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds VENTURES ↗
- Who funds La Familia Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT IMPACT ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds NorCal Resist ↗
- Who funds Texas Access to Justice Foundation ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds UFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno ↗
- Who funds Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab ↗
- Who funds The Edwin & Dorothy Baker Foundation ↗
- Who funds Centro Laboral de Graton ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF INLAND EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fathers and Families of San Joaquin ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE TIME HOME SHARING INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The California Endowment · Tides Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Tides Center · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Weingart Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · East Bay Community Foundation · California Immigrant Policy Center
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 Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
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.
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