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Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. And cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

$881k
Granted FY2020
4
Itemized grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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56% of Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Austin Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’18
3
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2020
$68k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$17,046
Largest grant, FY2020
$38,446
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$50M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20203$30k100%
FY20181$252kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Education$252kPhilanthropy$38kHousing & Shelter$17kInternational$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fwdus Education Fund Inc$252,10511%
First Grace Community Alliance$17,04616%
Cameroon American Council$10,0001n/a
Circle of Health International$2,50010%

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services?

Find your warmest path to Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

How much does Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services give?
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services reported 4 itemized grants totaling $67,992, out of $880,769 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (79%), Philanthropy (12%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
Who are Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Fwdus Education Fund Inc ($252k), First Grace Community Alliance ($17k), Cameroon American Council ($10k).
Does Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services based?
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services is based in TX.

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 5 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.3M 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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