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Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab

The mission of the Collaborative is to create a coordinated network of effective and efficient services to assist low-income immigrants access to the information and legal representation that allows them to make choices in their own best interest.

$579k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$171k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$3.9MHuman Services$1.6MCivil Rights$1.4MHealth$1.1MInternational$200kEducation$105kEmployment$95kCommunity Improvement$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $531k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boat People SOS Inc$170,514
Baylor College of Medicine$60,000
Epiphany Community Health$60,000
Memorial AssistanceMinistries$60,000
Interfaith Ministries Houston$60,000
Living Hope Wheelchair Assoc$60,000
Bonding Against Adversity$60,000
Houston Volunteer Lawyers$26,050
Catholic Charities GalvHstn$22,500
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Immigrant Legal Resource: $13k → 10%Nat Partnershp New Americans: $9k → 14%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $203k → 16%YMCA of the Greater Houston Area: $125k → 16%YMCA of the Greater Houston Area: $100k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $80k → 16%YMCA of the Greater Houston Area: $36k → 16%YMCA of the Greater Houston Area: $10k → 16%YMCA of the Greater Houston Area: $3k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $100k → 16%Catholic Charities GalvHstn: $77k → 16%Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services: $78k → 16%Catholic Charities GalvHstn: $72k → 16%Epiphany Community Health: $70k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $53k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $30k → 16%Epiphany Community Health: $60k → 16%Catholic Charities GalvHstn: $23k → 16%EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $55k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $10k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $5k → 16%EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $30k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $3k → 16%Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services: $25k → 16%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $61k → 16%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $56k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $40k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $25k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $20k → 16%AllianceCommAssistMinistries: $60k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $5k → 16%FAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: $62k → 16%Chinese Community Center: $30k → 16%BakerRipley: $60k → 16%Memorial AssistanceMinistries: $64k → 16%Memorial AssistanceMinistries: $63k → 16%Memorial AssistanceMinistries: $60k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $8k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries: $5k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $115k → 16%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $45k → 16%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

IL
NY
IN
CA
VA
AZ
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 27 repeat orgs$912k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
19

Total granted

$7.8M
$852k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+3%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationHealthCommunity 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

  • B
    BakerRipley
    6× · 2018–2023 · $764k · revenue +86%
  • JF
    Justice For All Immigrants
    5× · 2018–2024 · $573k · revenue +198%
  • GI
    Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project
    5× · 2021–2025 · $515k · revenue ×17

Funded once

  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -1%
  • IJ
    IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +170%
  • OB
    Olive Branch-Muslim Family Services
    one grant, 2020 · $69k · revenue -28%
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
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
2
Redeeming Justice Network

Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…

Civil Rights
3
Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab

The mission of the Collaborative is to create a coordinated network of effective and efficient services to assist low-income immigrants access to the information and legal representation that allows them to make choices in their own best…

Philanthropy
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

—
5
Texas Legal Services Center Inc

Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…

Crime & Legal
6
Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy

Immigration Legal Services and Advocacy (ISLA) provides direct representation to indigent detained immigrants throughout Louisiana on a pro bono basis and under a universal representation model. ISLA provides information to the public to…

Crime & Legal
7
Inner City Law Center

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
11
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.

—
12
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services; the most unlike its peers is Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Houston. 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

47 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. 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
31/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BakerRipley: $763,718 · Human ServicesBakerRipleyYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $671,875 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association o…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $371,623 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCE…EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $317,583 · Human ServicesEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH …Memorial Assistance Ministries: $199,550 · Human ServicesMemorial Assistance MinistriesBOAT PEOPLE S O S INC: $151,000 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE S O S INC+7 more: $275,233 · Human Services+7 moreEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $1,201,142 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSJustice For All Immigrants: $572,500 · Crime & LegalJustice For All ImmigrantsGalveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project: $514,564 · Crime & LegalGalveston-Houston Immigrant Repre…IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $90,000 · Crime & LegalHOUSTON VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC: $86,050 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $90,000 · Crime & LegalTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $402,040 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH J…Texas Immigration Law Council: $235,799 · Civil RightsTexas Immigra…UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $178,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DRE…MI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $130,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN…FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $95,200 · Civil RightsFE Y JUSTICIA…+3 more: $31,782 · Civil RightsLiving Hope Wheelchair Association: $437,155 · HealthOlive Branch-Muslim Family Services: $68,530 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $64,423 · HealthSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $300,000 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $213,333 · EducationUniversity of Houston Law Foundation: $43,000 · EducationAL-NOOR SOCIETY OF GREATER HOUSTON: $117,350 · OtherAL-NOOR SO…ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $110,000 · OtherORGANIZATI…LATINO LGBTQ GAY PRIDE INC: $71,245 · OtherLATINO LGB…ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 · OtherALLIANCE F…Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $60,000 · OtherInterfaith…EARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL POLICY INC: $52,250 · OtherEARL CARL …HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $150,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGH…CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $63,000 · OtherCHURCH WOR…GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $61,122 · OtherGREATER HO…Texas Low-Income Housing Information Service: $47,000 · OtherTexas Low-…West Street Recovery: $44,200 · OtherDaya Inc: $199,106 · Community ImprovementBONDING AGAINST ADVERSITY INC: $168,800 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$2,750,582Crime & Legal$2,554,256Civil Rights$1,072,821Health$570,108Education$556,333Other$846,167Community Improvement$387,906

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $1,201,142 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBakerRipley: $763,718 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $671,875 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJustice For All Immigrants: $572,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetGalveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project: $514,564 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetLiving Hope Wheelchair Association: $437,155 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $402,040 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $371,623 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $317,583 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Immigration Law Council: $235,799 over 2y, 22% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $213,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $199,550 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDaya Inc: $199,106 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $178,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBONDING AGAINST ADVERSITY INC: $168,800 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE S O S INC: $151,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $130,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAL-NOOR SOCIETY OF GREATER HOUSTON: $117,350 over 2y, 21% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $110,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $95,200 over 3y, 11% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $90,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSTON VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC: $86,050 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEL CENTRO DE CORAZON: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOlive Branch-Muslim Family Services: $68,530 over 1y, 17% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $64,423 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $63,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: $62,200 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $61,122 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $56,385 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL POLICY INC: $52,250 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTexas Low-Income Housing Information Service: $47,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetMy Connect Community: $45,100 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWest Street Recovery: $44,200 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Houston Law Foundation: $43,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $12,548 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $12,452 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $11,330 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $8,000 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.

Houston Endowment IncGreater Houston Commu…United Way of Greater…The Simmons FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Texas Access to Justi…Rockwell Fund IncHarvey R Houck Jr and…The Methodist HospitalImmigrant Legal Resou…Marek Family Foundati…Church World Service …
Houston Endowment IncTX42.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · The Simmons Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Access to Justice Foundation · Rockwell Fund Inc · Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W Houck Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Marek Family Foundation · Church World Service Inc

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 Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab?

    Find your warmest path to Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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