Tennessee · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,942,219 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ($1,143,298). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $713k
What Advocates for Immigrant Rights does
Mission
Advocates for Immigrant Rights (air) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the dignity, safety, and inclusionof immigrants in the united states, with a focus on marginalized communities. Our primary activities include providinghigh-quality legal representation to immigrants facing deportation and advocating for policies that support family unity andimmigrant integration. In 2024, air delivered legal services to 1,000 individuals, preventing deportation in the majority ofthe cases, and participating in advocacy efforts to promote equitable immigration policies. Our work supports immigrantsin becoming valued community members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Advocates for Immigrant Rights (air) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the dignity, safety, and inclusionof immigrants in the united states, with a focus on marginalized communities. Our primary activities include providinghigh-quality legal representation to immigrants facing deportation and advocating for policies that support family unity andimmigrant integration. Air delivers legal services to individuals and families to obtain legal status and prevent deportation. We participate in advocacy efforts to promote equitable immigration policies.
$964,769 spentof which $8,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $964,769.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $314k to $1.3M (+309%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 28% · 2024 47% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
April Steele
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $486k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 71% · 2023 92% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
100% of ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS?
- ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,942,219 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ($1,143,298). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,942,219 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,143,298 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing