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Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund

Established in 2013 as the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the national immigration law center (nilc), the NILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND's (ijf) mission is focused on building immigrant power and advancing effective and fair immigration policy through civic engagement campaigns. The ijf relies on its extensive connections with advocacy groups…

$15k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$733k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Civil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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
FY20211$15k100%
FY20202$43k100%
FY20191$45k100%
FY20184$135kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Civil Rights$210kPublic Benefit$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Casa in Action Inc$75,00014%
Center for Intercultural Organizing$50,00015%
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition$45,00011%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$22,50010%
Nj Immigrant Justice Action Fund Inc$20,0001n/a
Aaaf PAC$15,0001n/a
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc$5,00010%
Alliance San Diego Mobilization Fund$5,00011%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Tides AdvocacyCA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund

How much does Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund give?
Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund reported 1 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Civil Rights (88%), Public Benefit (12%).
Who are Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Casa in Action Inc ($75k), Center for Intercultural Organizing ($50k), Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition ($45k).
Does Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Advocacy.
Where is Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund based?
Nilc Immigrant Justice Fund is based in DC.

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 8 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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