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United We Dream Network Inc

United we dream network is a youth-led organization committed to achieving dignity and humanity for all young people in the u.s., including those from immigrant communities, by empowering, organizing, and developing our members' leadership.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$332k
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 2024.

Civil Rights$1.9MPublic Benefit$471kEmployment$362kHuman Services$223kCrime & Legal$212kEnvironment$200kCommunity Improvement$185kHousing & Shelter$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $1,557,472, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,832,448 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $274,976 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $588k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $319k
  • $250k+2 grants · $643k
$20,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMIGRANTS RISING$331,500
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC$311,000
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$184,034
MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC$81,000
AMERICAS VOICE EDUCATION FUND$54,338
CASA INC$45,000
ARIZONA DREAM ACT COALITION$45,000
ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT$40,000
COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS$33,000
ILLINOIS WORKERS IN ACTION$30,000
DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING$30,000
COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION$30,000
CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY$30,000
ADELANTE STUDENT VOICES$30,000
NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE & EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC$28,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $738k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IMMIGRANTS RISING: $332k → 10%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $10k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%PUBLIC ALLIES NEW MEXICO: $17k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE: $26k → 9%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $16k → 13%PUBLIC ALLIES: $27k → 17%LATIN AMERICAN COALITION: $26k → 10%ANGKOR RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10k → 15%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $33k → 9%ILLINOIS WORKERS IN ACTION: $30k → 8%DREAM BIG NEVADA: $20k → 13%OPERATION RESTORATION: $10k → 23%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $20k → 17%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $13k → 9%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $81k → 20%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $10k → 14%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 13%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $39k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 16 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +127% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
22

Total granted

$1.9M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
+44%

Still filing today

94%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • MT
    Make the Road New York
    5× · 2017–2024 · $328k · revenue +35%
  • ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT
    6× · 2017–2024 · $184k · revenue ×34
  • CF
    COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
    3× · 2019–2024 · $166k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • FI
    Florida Immigrant Coalition Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $77k · revenue +109%
  • PT
    Progress Texas Institute
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -62%
  • DW
    Detention Watch Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $39k · revenue +41%
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
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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2
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
3
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…

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4
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

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5
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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6
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.

Civil Rights
7
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.

Human Services
8
Texas Immigration Law Council

It is the mission of the Texas Immigration Law Council to protect and promote the basic rights of immigrants and refugees of all nationalities within Texas.

Civil Rights
9
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
10
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

To provide legal services to low-income immigrants, including battered women, refugees seeking asylum and those seeking family reunification. the mission of las americas is to provide quality legal services to low-income immigrants and to…

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11
Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy & Services

Vidas provides trauma-informed immigration legal advocacy and community wellness programs.

Education
12
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights

VACIR is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalition of organizations that exists to win dignity, power and quality of life for all immigrant and refugee communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Catholic Social Services. 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

61 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. 61 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $183,795 · Civil RightsARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENTCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $165,667 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTSNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $161,642 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND …ARIZONA DREAM ACT COALITION: $153,500 · Civil RightsARIZONA DREAM ACT COALITIONEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $139,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGOTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $78,750 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHT…Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $76,500 · Civil RightsFlorida Immigrant Coalition IncProyecto Inmigrante ICS Inc: $63,880 · Civil RightsAMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND: $54,338 · Civil RightsProgress Texas Institute: $49,872 · Civil Rights+5 more: $99,618 · Civil Rights+5 moreImmigrants Rising: $331,500 · Human ServicesImmigrants RisingMake The Road States Inc: $81,000 · Human ServicesMake The Road States I…Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $45,900 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund …PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $44,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES INCDetention Watch Network: $39,000 · Human ServicesILLINIOS WORKERS IN ACTION: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesLatin American Coalition: $25,500 · Human Services+9 more: $116,000 · Human Services+9 moreCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $311,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPU…CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $159,900 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVI…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $20,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitCASA INC: $93,166 · OtherCASA INCCatholic Charities Indianapolis Inc: $50,500 · OtherCatholic Chariti…KSMODA: $38,250 · OtherKSMODAEND DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN THE WI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $38,250 · OtherEND DOMESTIC ABU…IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $30,000 · OtherIDAHO COALITION …CATALYST CT INC: $25,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF TULSA: $25,500 · OtherGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,900 · OtherGREATER HOUSTON …SCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $24,930 · OtherFWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 · OtherADELANTE STUDENT VOICES INC: $30,000 · OtherADELANTE STUDENT…+13 more: $124,750 · Other+13 moreMake the Road New York: $327,501 · Crime & LegalMake the …NEW VENTURE FUND: $200,000 · EnvironmentDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $132,500 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $27,667 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$1,226,562Human Services$738,400Public Benefit$500,900Other$546,746Crime & Legal$327,501Environment$200,000Community Improvement$175,167

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMake the Road New York: $327,501 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $311,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $183,795 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $165,667 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $161,642 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $159,900 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetARIZONA DREAM ACT COALITION: $153,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $139,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $132,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCASA INC: $93,166 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMake The Road States Inc: $81,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $78,750 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $76,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetProyecto Inmigrante ICS Inc: $63,880 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND: $54,338 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetProgress Texas Institute: $49,872 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $45,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC ALLIES INC: $44,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDetention Watch Network: $39,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEND DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN THE WI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $38,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $35,618 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetILLINIOS WORKERS IN ACTION: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetADELANTE STUDENT VOICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetIDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $27,667 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATALYST CT INC: $25,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $25,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLatin American Coalition: $25,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $24,930 over 1y, 33% of budgetJustice Action Center: $23,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDREAM BIG NEVADA: $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $13,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTodec Legal Center Perris: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCasa De La Cultura Hispana De Lexington: $10,000 over 1y, 36% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundTides FoundationHispanic Federation I…The Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Fwdus Education Fund …Hispanics in Philanth…Proteus Fund IncSilicon Valley Commun…Immigrant Legal Resou…
NEO Philanthropy IncNY41.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Proteus Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Immigrant Legal Resource Center

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 United We Dream Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United We Dream Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Catalyst Ct Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Hope Community Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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