Florida · Nonprofit
AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER
AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER (Florida) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,485,980 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($8,296,621). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Americans for Immigrant Justice Inc F/K/A Fla Immigrant Advocacy Center does
Mission
To protect and promote the basic human rights of immigrants through a unique combination of free direct services, impact litigation, policy reform, and public education at local, state, and national levels.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy in 2024, ai justice continued to litigate several important impact cases. In the constitutional challenge to section 10 of florida's infamous sb 1718 (fwaf v. Desantis) plaintiffs motion for preliminary injunction was granted in may 2024. Ai justice continued to litigate two family separation cases (rymr v. Usa and sebm v. Usa) primarily under the federal torts claims act (ftca). Ai justice was able to secure successful settlements for our clients in both cases. An additional ftca matter, challenging the mistreatment of our client by ice and cbp continued to move forward (hinestroza v. Usa). In august 2024, the d.c. Circuit court upheld a rule allowing the lawfully-admitted spouses of h-1b visa holders to obtain authorization to work while awaiting lawful permanent residency. Ai justice partnered with boies schiller flexner to represent immigration voice, as an intervenor in savejobs v. Usa, in advocating for this rule. Finally the team joined the brown v. Ramsay, a law suit filed on behalf of a natural-born u.s. Citizen who was unlawfully detained by the monroe county sheriff based on an erroneous ice detainer, transferred to ice custody, and almost deported to jamaica…
$335,919 spent6% of program spendingDirect servicesin 2024, americans for immigrant justice (ai justice) continued to serve the community's most vulnerable immigrants. We served 8,371 immigrants from 82 countries, filing over 800 applications before uscis and represent over 400 individuals before the executive office for immigration review. Over 600 survivors of domestic violence, crime, and human trafficking received services and we represented 248 child survivors of abuse, abandonment, or neglect, including 124 children in foster care. We also provided orientation and advice to over 1,300 asylum seekers. We provided over 200 know your rights presentations reaching over 1600 individuals. Additionally, we received support from 22 pro bono partners on 42 cases.
$5,336,908 spent94% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,672,827.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.4M to $7.8M (+44%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER’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. 0 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $1.1M.
16 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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
AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 31% · 2019 15% · 2020 17% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
70% of AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $209 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $209
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER
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 Florida
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
91%
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 AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: 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 AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER?
- AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER (Florida) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,485,980 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($8,296,621). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $17,485,980 in grants to AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER?
- THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,296,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 89 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing