California · Public charity
Immigrant Legal Defense
IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE's mission is to promote justice through the provision of legal representation to underserved immigrant communities.
- $139k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2025
- $136k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $39,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2021 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Immigrant Legal Defense funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $136k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fii - National | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Scopa Has a Dream Inc Dba Corazon Healdsburg | $39,375 | 1 | n/a |
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area | $26,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Immigrant Defenders Law Center | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Access to Justice Commission | $17,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice | $16,500 | 1 | n/a |
| West Contra Costa Public Education Fund | $11,700 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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About Immigrant Legal Defense
- How much does Immigrant Legal Defense give?
- Immigrant Legal Defense reported 6 itemized grants totaling $135,575, out of $139,430 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
- What does Immigrant Legal Defense fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (70%), Civil Rights (25%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Immigrant Legal Defense's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Fii - National ($75k), Scopa Has a Dream Inc Dba Corazon Healdsburg ($39k), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area ($26k).
- Does Immigrant Legal Defense fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Immigrant Legal Defense?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Immigrant Legal Defense based?
- Immigrant Legal Defense is based in CA.
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