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Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc

The mission of the immigrant law center of minnesota (ilcm) is to enhance opportunities for immigrants and refugees through legal representation for low-income individuals, and through education and advocacy with diverse communities.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$422,877
Largest grant, FY2025
$471,897
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$5.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCrime & LegalArts & CultureCommunity 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$1.6M0%
FY20245$465k60%
FY20232$74k0%
FY20222$40k0%
FY20213$78k0%
FY20205$143k0%
FY20196$139k17%
FY20186$185k50%
100% 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$1.4MCivil Rights$751kEducation$319kPublic Benefit$119kCommunity Improvement$119kArts & Culture$80kHuman Services$31kEmployment$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Advocates For Human Rights$675,273610%
Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd$565,478216%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance$523,57622%
Literacy Minnesota$438,13681%
Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc$295,07420%
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research$87,154421%
Development Corporation of Austin$84,74046%
The Visionaries Inc$68,50027%
Project Fine$42,28542%
Latino Economic Development Center$34,16221%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights: $675,273 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetVolunteer Lawyers Network Ltd: $565,478 over 2y, 16% of budgetMid-Minnesota Legal Assistance: $523,576 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLiteracy Minnesota: $438,136 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSouthern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc: $295,074 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research: $87,154 over 4y, 21% of budgetDevelopment Corporation of Austin: $84,740 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetThe Visionaries Inc: $68,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetProject Fine: $42,285 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLatino Economic Development Center: $34,162 over 2y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Greater Twin Cities U…Pohlad Family Foundat…The McKnight Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Fredrikson & Byron Fo…BCBSM Foundation IncRobins Kaplan Foundat…The Bush FoundationFr Bigelow Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · BCBSM Foundation Inc · Robins Kaplan Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Fr Bigelow 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.

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About Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc

How much does Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc give?
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc reported 4 grants totaling $1,593,627 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (49%), Civil Rights (27%), Education (11%).
Who are Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Advocates For Human Rights ($675k), Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd ($565k), Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance ($524k).
Does Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Greater Twin Cities United Way.
Where is Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc based?
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc is based in MN.

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 10 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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