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HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc

Hias pennsylvania supports low-income immigrants of all backgrounds as they build new lives in our community.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$411k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$2.3MHuman Services$256kInternational$60kEducation$57kEmployment$18kPublic Benefit$17kHousing & Shelter$7kCivil Rights$7k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $791,434, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,345,741 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $554,307 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
  • $250k+1 grant · $411k
$19,222
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Victim Witness Serv of South Philadelphia$411,155
La Puerta Abierta Inc$148,562
Justice at Work$124,341
Casa de Venezuela Philadelphia$19,222
National Korean American Srvc & Educ Cons$19,222
Free Migration Project$19,222
Haitian-American United for Change$19,222
Esperanza Immigration Legal Services$18,297
New World Association$7,023
District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund$5,168
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%La Puerta Abierta Inc: $149k → 22%La Puerta Abierta Inc: $143k → 22%LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC: $86k → 22%LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC: $27k → 22%Esperanza Immigration Legal Service: $30k → 22%Esperanza Immigration Legal Services: $18k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES: $17k → 22%Esperanza Immigration Legal Services: $17k → 22%Esperanza Immigration Legal Services: $17k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES: $16k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES: $9k → 22%Victim Witness Services of SPhila: $173k → 22%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES OF SOUTH PHILADELPHIA: $269k → 22%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES OF SOUTH PHILADELPHIA: $165k → 22%Victim Witness Services of SPhila: $157k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 9 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$3.3M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+67%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $916k · revenue +34%
  • VS
    VICTIMWITNESS SERVICES OF SOUTH PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2019–2023 · $765k · revenue +28% · 37% of their budget
  • LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $405k · revenue +11% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CHRISTIANITY FOR LIVING MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • KO
    KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +67%
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
Eastern North Philadelphia Workforce Development Corp

Eastern north philadelphia workforce development corporation ("enpwdc") is a non-profit corporation serving the hispanic community of north philadelphia. enpwdc's primary mission is to assist individuals and families in achieving economic…

Human Services
2
Apoyo Legal Migrante Asociado

Serve immigrants, especially immigrant victims of crime.

Crime & Legal
3
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
4
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
5
Hias and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc

Hias pennsylvania supports low-income immigrants of all backgrounds as they build new lives in our community. through immigration legal services, we work to address their needs, defend their rights, and advocate for their equitable…

Human Services
6
Immigrant Legal Services

Provide low bono & pro bono legal immigration services.

Human Services
7
Juntos

Juntos is a community-led, latine, immigrant organization in south philadelphia fighting for our human rights as workers, parents, youth, and immigrants. we believe that every human being has the right to a quality education and the…

Human Services
8
El Pueblo

El Pueblo will provide a full range of legal services and other support services to low-income immigrants seeking family reunification, citizenship, and protection from persecution and violence.

Human Services
9
Latin American Coalition

The Coalition is dedicated to educating Latino immigrant newcomers, celebrating hispanic culture, and advocating for underserved segments of the population. Programs and initiatives include economic development, legal counsel, community…

Human Services
10
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
11
Emporia Spanish Speakers

Instruction of the public or individual

Arts & Culture
12
Luminus Network Inc

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

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esperanza Immigration Legal Services; the most unlike its peers is Casa De Venezuela. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VICTIMWITNESS SERVICES OF SOUTH PHILADELPHIA: $764,674 · Human ServicesVICTIMWITNESS SERVICES OF SOUTH PHILADELPH…LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC: $404,524 · Human ServicesLA PUERTA ABIERTA INCEsperanza Immigration Legal Services: $122,943 · Human ServicesEsperanza Immigration Legal ServicesVictim Witness Services of South Ph: $1,024,258 · OtherVictim Witness Services of South PhCHRISTIANITY FOR LIVING MINISTRIES: $60,000 · OtherNEW WORLD ASSOCIATION OF EMIGRANTS EASTERN EUROPE INC: $52,335 · Other+4 more: $77,608 · Other+4 moreFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC: $915,799 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INCCASA DE VENEZUELA: $19,222 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $19,222 · Civil RightsFREE MIGRATION PROJECT: $19,222 · InternationalKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $6,782 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,292,141Other$1,214,201Crime & Legal$915,799Arts & Culture$19,222Civil Rights$19,222International$19,222Housing & Shelter$6,782

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 budgetFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC: $915,799 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetVICTIMWITNESS SERVICES OF SOUTH PHILADELPHIA: $764,674 over 4y, 37% of budgetLA PUERTA ABIERTA INC: $404,524 over 4y, 29% of budgetEsperanza Immigration Legal Services: $122,943 over 7y, 12% of budgetNEW WORLD ASSOCIATION OF EMIGRANTS EASTERN EUROPE INC: $52,335 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBeyond Literacy: $23,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHILA HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT 1199C TRAINING AND UPGRADING FUND: $23,468 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $19,222 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDOCHINESE-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $11,318 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $6,782 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Samuel S Fels FundThe Barra Foundation …United Way of Greater…Lincoln Financial Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Samuel S Fels Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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