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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$472k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$1.4MCivil Rights$751kEducation$319kPublic Benefit$119kCommunity Improvement$119kArts & Culture$80kHuman Services$31kEmployment$11k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$422,877
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$471,897
VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK$422,877
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE$417,924
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES$273,696
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%VISIONARIES: $46k → 7%DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF AUSTIN: $25k → 10%ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $472k → 11%MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL: $68k → 14%PROJECT FINE: $15k → 14%VISIONARIES: $23k → 7%DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF AUSTIN: $21k → 10%THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $136k → 11%MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL: $65k → 14%PROJECT FINE INC: $11k → 14%DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF AUSTIN: $21k → 10%ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $29k → 11%MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL: $65k → 14%PROJECT FINE INC: $9k → 14%DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF AUSTIN: $18k → 10%ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $26k → 11%MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL: $63k → 14%PROJECT FINE: $8k → 14%ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $7k → 11%LITERACY MN: $59k → 14%ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $7k → 11%MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL: $54k → 14%VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK: $423k → 11%MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL: $49k → 14%VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK: $143k → 11%HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH: $31k → 14%MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $418k → 11%HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH: $26k → 14%MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID: $106k → 11%HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH: $16k → 14%MINNESOTA LITERACY COUNCIL: $15k → 14%HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH: $14k → 14%LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $24k → 14%LATINO ECOMONIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%SOUTHERN MINNESOTA REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES: $274k → 14%SOUTHERN MINNESOTA REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES: $21k → 14%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$2.8M
$0

Still filing today

90%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity 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

  • TA
    The Advocates For Human Rights
    6× · 2019–2025 · $675k · revenue +71%
  • VL
    VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $565k · revenue +17%
  • LM
    LITERACY MINNESOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $438k · revenue +30%

Funded once

    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
    Minnesota Women Lawyers

    To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

    —
    2
    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.

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    3
    Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

    To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

    Community Improvement
    4
    Central Minnesota Legal Services

    The mission of central minnesota legal services is to advocate for access to the civil justice system for low income people by providing high quality legal services and to improve the lives of people living in poverty by empowering…

    —
    5
    Legal Rights Center

    Our mission is to work with our communities to seek justice and promote racial equity for those to whom it has been historically denied. we do this through criminal defense, restorative justice, advocacy, and community education.

    Crime & Legal
    6
    Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc

    Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which operates a law center that provides legal services and support to America's family farmers and their communities to help keep farmers on…

    —
    7
    Minnesota Voice

    Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

    Public Benefit
    8
    Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota

    Our mission is to provide civil legal service to low-income clients. our legal services provide basic protection for our clients by enforcing the law when their rights have been violated, promote the self-sufficiency of individuals…

    Crime & Legal
    9
    Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota

    To provide legal assistance in noncriminal proceedings to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance in northwest minnesota.

    —
    10
    Leadership Matters Mn

    Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

    Education
    11
    Michigan Advocacy Program

    To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

    Crime & Legal
    12
    Growth & Justice

    To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

    —
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research; the most unlike its peers is Development Corporation of Austin. 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

    10 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.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    4
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/10
    Grantees still filing
    7/10
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD: $565,478 · OtherVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTDMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $523,576 · OtherMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCEDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF AUSTIN: $84,740 · OtherDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF AUSTINThe Advocates For Human Rights: $675,273 · InternationalThe Advocates For Human Rig…LITERACY MINNESOTA: $438,136 · EducationLITERACY MINNESOT…SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC: $295,074 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN MN…HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH: $87,154 · Arts & CultureTHE VISIONARIES INC: $68,500 · Arts & CulturePROJECT FINE: $42,285 · Community ImprovementLatino Economic Development Center: $34,162 · Housing & Shelter
    Other$1,173,794International$675,273Education$438,136Crime & Legal$295,074Arts & Culture$155,654Community Improvement$42,285Housing & Shelter$34,162

    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 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
    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.

    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2023
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
      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 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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