· Public charity
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
To work with and educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to continue to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $546k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND - HQ | $1,140,579 |
| AAAJ-SC | $1,075,917 |
| CLINIC NAT'L OFFICE | $1,007,328 |
| TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT | $205,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY | $201,794 |
| UNIDOSUS | $197,904 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - HQ NY | $173,921 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT REFUGEE | $125,550 |
| CVIIC | $85,000 |
| COASTSIDE HOPE | $84,478 |
| LAREDO IMMIGRANT ALLIANCE | $83,000 |
| IMMIGRATION INST BAY AREA - SF | $82,728 |
| EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CENTER | $82,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SF | $80,978 |
| APILO | $80,978 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NENALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +46%
- AAASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +50%
- CLCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +145%
Funded once
- NANEW AMERICA MEDIAone grant, 2017 · $160k
- MAMISSION ASSET FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $130k · revenue +71%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $118k · revenue +474%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Legal, immigration and community organizing
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central American Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Soapbox Productions and Organizing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
212 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 212 of the 225 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST FUTURES LAW INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds MISSION ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Pangea Legal Services ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLARA COUNTY ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LABORS TRAINING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds NIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds COASTSIDE HOPE ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
- Who funds Education and Leadership Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
- Who funds LAREDO IMMIGRANT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Centro La Familia Advocacy Services INC ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · California Immigrant Policy Center · Sunlight Giving · California Access to Justice Commission · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides Center
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Immigrant Legal Resource Center funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Hispanic Unity of Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.