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COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,177,514 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($6,528,517). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$25M
Funders on record
160
Grants received
$35M
Net assets
$37M
79/160 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights does

Mission

To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Legal Immigration Services: CHIRLA's Legal Service Department has been recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) since August 30, 2011, to provide immigration legal services at low-cost. CHIRLA's legal staff comprises licensed attorneys, Department of Justice (DOJ) accredited representatives, Juris Doctors (awaiting bar results), trained paralegals (all awaiting DOJ accreditation decisions), and legal assistants. Since 2012, CHIRLA's legal staff has submitted thousands of applications for U.S. Naturalization forms (N-400). Since August 15, 2012, CHIRLA has filed thousands of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) initial and renewal applications, and has helped thousands of immigrants receive immigration assistance including: family petitions, waivers, consular process, adjustment of status, U-Visa, deportation defense, renewals for Legal Permanent Residency, VAWA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Employment Authorization Document (EAD) renewal, pro se immigration filings, motions to reopen and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. CHIRLA's legal clinic and triage provides general consultations to over 30 clients 3 times a week and carefully evaluates each…

    $6,526,411 spentof which $71,857 as grants
    32% of program spending

  2. Organizing: CHIRLA organizes a membership base to harness the power of a collective voice. Over the years, CHIRLA has applied principles of community organizing leadership development, strategies and tactics. With a robust and organized membership, CHIRLA coordinates actions to win pro-immigrant policies that make a difference in the lives of members. CHIRLA organizes its membership base into the following committees: Household Worker Committee, Street Vendor Committee, as well as student committees for the California DREAM Network at 35 colleges and universities statewide, and Wise Up! at 10 Los Angeles and Pasadena area high schools. Additionally, CHIRLA organizes members into regional committees. These committees meet monthly to plan campaigns and participate in CHIRLA actions such as marches, forums, and town halls, as well as traveling to Sacramento and Washington, D.C. to participate in non-lobbying education of elected officials about the issues affecting low-wage immigrant workers, students, and their families.

    $2,278,794 spentof which $90,476 as grants
    11% of program spending

  3. Community Outreach and Education: CHIRLA educates immigrant workers, students and families to know and use their constitutional rights. CHIRLA's community education staff presented information to over 150,000 immigrants on an annual basis about worker rights, resources and how to protect themselves against Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement, wage theft and other worker rights and civil rights violations.

    $1,737,536 spentof which $153,000 as grants
    9% of program spending

  4. Civic engagement:chirla's civic

    $1,316,569 spent
    7% of program spending

  5. Engagement program provides education

  6. For new & infrequent immigrant voters

  7. Across california. Chirla's program is

  8. Unique in that it engages immigrants of

  9. All status in a civic engagement

  10. Pipeline. Chirla's pipline walks

  11. Volunteers through the process of

  12. Engaging voters. For those

  13. Volunteers who are eligible for

  14. Citizenship, chirla assists them

  15. Towards the path to citizenship by

  16. Helping them with the naturalization

  17. Process, registering them to vote, and

  18. Lastly, mobilizing them to vote.

  19. Policy & advocacy:chirla works to

    $1,375,949 spentof which $71,750 as grants
    7% of program spending

  20. Advance a local, state and national

  21. Agenda that wins human, civil & labor

  22. Rights for immigrants & their families.

  23. External affairs: CONVENES the

    $273,190 spentof which $4,500 as grants
    1% of program spending

  24. California table for immigrant affairs,

  25. RAIDS rapid Response Network(RRRN)& Los

  26. Angeles action table to bring together a

  27. COALITION OF COMMUNITY, faith, immigrant,

  28. labor, and LGBTQI, organizations to

  29. address immigrant issues.

  30. Oranizations to address immigrant issues.

  31. Chirla property mgmt. Llc (san pedro)

    $40,186 spent
    0% of program spending

  32. Climate justice

    $170,481 spent
    1% of program spending

  33. International

    $320,312 spentof which $220 as grants
    2% of program spending

  34. Workers rights & labor legal services

    $230,912 spent
    1% of program spending

  35. I welcome center

    $8,217 spent
    0% of program spending

  36. Membership

    $1,538,220 spentof which $836,350 as grants
    8% of program spending

  37. Communication & public relations

    $731,119 spent
    4% of program spending

  38. Programs & subcontract administration-

    $1,238,749 spentof which $177 as grants
    6% of program spending

  39. For the fiscal year ending june 2025,

  40. Chirla has distributed 116 contract

  41. Awards to 52 organizations for a total

  42. Of $14,260,254.

  43. Humanitarian and Migrant Assistance

    $1,865,122 spentof which $181,853 as grants
    9% of program spending

  44. marketing and public relations

    $520,247 spent
    3% of program spending

The 44 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,172,014.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.9M) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 124 ($7.9M) Expenses 184 ($7.2M) Net assets 126 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 151 ($9.7M) Expenses 227 ($8.9M) Net assets 153 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 211 ($13M) Expenses 324 ($13M) Net assets 191 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 188 ($12M) Expenses 331 ($13M) Net assets 152 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 289 ($18M) Expenses 391 ($15M) Net assets 252 ($6.6M)2023 Revenue 704 ($45M) Expenses 512 ($20M) Net assets 1197 ($31M)2024 Revenue 487 ($31M) Expenses 603 ($24M) Net assets 1477 ($39M)2025 Revenue 384 ($25M) Expenses 658 ($26M) Net assets 1427 ($37M)
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Revenue (384)Expenses (658)Net assets (1427)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $48M to $76M (+60%).

$3.4M
$4.0M
$5.1M
$6.9M
$8.1M
$24M
$48M
$76M
$67M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 38% · 2018 54% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 56% · 2022 67% · 2023 76% · 2024 82% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 156 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.4M
’17
$681k
’18
$716k
’19
$726k
’20
−$1.0M
’21
$3.1M
’22
$25M
’23
$7.3M
’24
−$1.3M
’25
1.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Angelica Salas

Executive director

Board chair

Esther E Hernandez

chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed10911111010101913
Joined·+0+2+1+0+0+0+9+0
No longer listed·10110006
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $7.1M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Mujeres Unidas y Activasunclassified
$713k
Hispanic Federation Incunclassified
$697k
NEO Philanthropy Incunclassified
$641k
Tides CenterDAF
$559k
Community Partnersunclassified
$321k
Great Public Schools Nowunclassified
$300k
Fwdus Education Fund Incunclassified
$300k
funders
33
31
36
49
50
36
41
57
44
1

28 of 160 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 160 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

COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

66% 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 COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS.

19%
largest funder
34%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 46% · 2019 12% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 23% · 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

43% of COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS's grant income comes from California funders.

AK
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
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CO
VA
MD
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GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS has grown faster than half of the 63 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $950k on record.

Federal$950k
grants $950kcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$950k

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 COALITION FOR HUMANE 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 California

Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund86%Immigrant Legal Resource Center80%Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law Foundation80%Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California80%California Changelawyers79%Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc79%Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren)79%Catholic Charities of California78%

Nationally

Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund86%Immigrant Legal Resource Center80%Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska80%Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law Foundation80%Catholic Charities Legal Services Archdiocese of Miami Inc80%Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California80%California Changelawyers79%Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc79%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 18%Fundraising 4%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 2 states

CA
DC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Californians for Human Immigrant Rights · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COALITION FOR HUMANE 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 COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS?
COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,177,514 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($6,528,517). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS have?
IRS filings report 160 organizations giving $35,177,514 in grants to COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,528,517 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 160 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