North Carolina · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS
COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,385 to it, the largest being CROSSROADS FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION ($59,333). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Council on Immigrant Relations does
Mission
CIR provides low-cost immigration legal services through DOJ-accredited representatives and recognized immigration clinics, assisting immigrant neighbors with consultations, family-based immigration, asylum, removal defense, humanitarian relief, work authorization, and related immigration matters. CIR also educates and engages immigrant communities, policymakers, churches, and the public regarding legal and policy issues affecting immigrants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
IR provided low-cost immigration legal services to immigrant individuals and families through DOJ-accredited representatives and trained staff. Services included consultations, family-based immigration filings, asylum and removal defense support, humanitarian immigration relief, work authorization applications, USCIS and EOIR case preparation, client counseling, document review, case communication, and mailing/submission of immigration documents. This program advanced CIR's exempt purpose by helping immigrant community members understand their legal options, pursue available immigration benefits, and navigate complex immigration procedures.
$154,113 spent$153,844 earned by the program99% of program spendingCIR provided community education, outreach, and event-based services to assist immigrant individuals and families and to inform the broader community about immigration processes, legal rights, available services, and practical issues affecting immigrant households. These activities helped connect immigrant community members with reliable immigration information, appropriate referrals, and access to CIR's low-cost legal services.
$1,818 spent1% of program spendingCIR provided translation and document support services to reduce language barriers for immigrant individuals and families. These services helped clients understand, prepare, and submit documents needed for immigration, legal, and administrative matters. This program supported CIR's exempt purpose by helping immigrant clients access accurate information, communicate more effectively, and complete documentation connected to immigration legal services.
$0 spent$2,204 earned by the program0% of program spendingCIR provided client support and office services, including document handling, copying, printing, mailing support, records management, and client communication connected to immigration case preparation and service delivery. These activities supported immigrant clients in accessing low-cost legal services and submitting required immigration documentation.
$0 spent$1,355 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,931.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3k to $69k (+2602%).
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.
17% of COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
John Faison
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $7k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS: 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 COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS?
- COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,385 to it, the largest being CROSSROADS FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION ($59,333). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $67,385 in grants to COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS?
- CROSSROADS FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON IMMIGRANT RELATIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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