California · Nonprofit
AL OTRO LADO
AL OTRO LADO (California) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,213,678 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,525,101). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Al Otro Lado does
Mission
Al Otro Lado (aol) provides innovative cross-border legal services to refugees, deportees, and other migrantsin tijuana, mexico and throughout throughout the u.s., with a focus on southern california. Aol's mission is to uplift immigrant communities by defending the rights of migrants against systemic injustices in the legal system and fighting for all families that have been torn apart by unjust immigration laws. Aol has represented clients in immigration proceedings since 2017, with a focus on indigent, hard-to reach, underserved, and exceptionally vulnerable populations. Aol has been a leading organization working on family reunification and provides representation and case management services to separated families in central america and reunified families residing throughout the u.s. Aol has also served tens of thousands of refugees in baja california and other us-mexico border regions. Aol provides holistic, trauma-informed services, engaging partner organizations, and thousands
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Us based advocacyprovides holistic, full-scale representation to particularly vulnerableimmigrants, including unaccompanied children, lgbtqa+ individuals, indigenousmigrants, black migrants, torture survivors, survivors of human trafficking, clientswith disabilities/medical vulnerabilities, and clients whose cases presentfamily unity concerns. We represent clients before us citizenship and immigrationservices, immigration court, the board of immigration appeals, and the ninth circuit. We also administer the department of justice-funded legal orientation program at the imperial regional detention facility in calexico, ca. Our goal is to work with clients on all aspects of their casesl from their initial application for relief through naturalization. In 2024 we secured successful cases outcomes including asylum wins, daca renewals and releases from ice prison.
$2,698,238 spent45% of program spendingOther program services
$1,623,253 spent27% of program spendingBorder rights project expprovides know-your-rights training and legal accompaniment to refugeesat the us-mexico border, empowering refugees with information about theirrights in the us asylum system and how policies lire title 42, cbp one, and familyseparation may impact their ability to seer asylum. We submit requests forhumanitarian parole for medically vulnerable asylum seekers, and conduct human rights documentation and data analysis at us ports of entry. Our overall goal is to ensure that all refugees, regardless of nationality, can pursue their legal right to seek asylum at the us-mexico border without the need for attorney accompaniment.
$1,094,662 spent18% of program spendingFamily reunification project expworks with parents who were separated from their children during zerotolerance and deported without them. We work to bring parents back to the unitedstates to reunify with their children and then provide robust case management and legal support until they obtain work authorization, employment, stablehousing, food security, and access to medical, mental health, and other social services. These reunified families are located throughout the continental united states and generally received services from Al Otro Lado for at least 1 - 2 years post-reunification.
$527,651 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,943,804.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $4.9M (+130%).
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: 2018 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 11% · 2022 34% · 2023 68% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AL OTRO LADO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Angie Junck
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 42 funders, grant income rose $19k → $5.6M.
34 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 AL OTRO LADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 funders by total. 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
AL OTRO LADO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
89% 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 AL OTRO LADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 28% · 2020 28% · 2021 23% · 2022 30% · 2023 63% — 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
22% of AL OTRO LADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
51% of AL OTRO LADO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside California, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
AL OTRO LADO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AL OTRO LADO
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Al Otro Lado Tj · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AL OTRO LADO: 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 AL OTRO LADO?
- AL OTRO LADO (California) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,213,678 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,525,101). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AL OTRO LADO have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $22,213,678 in grants to AL OTRO LADO, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AL OTRO LADO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,525,101 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AL OTRO LADO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 146 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