Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,086,544 to it, the largest being HIAS INC ($1,107,552). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc does
Mission
Hias pennsylvania supports low-income immigrants of all backgrounds as they build new lives in our community. Through immigration legal services, we work to address their needs, defend their rights, and advocate for their equitable inclusion in american society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
From their first steps on American soil to the oath of citizenship, HIAS Pennsylvania welcomes immigrants as they navigate the complexities of American society and its legal system. Our work helps local immigrants gain citizenship and other legal statuses, unites them with their loved ones, provides guidance throughout the work authorization process, and protects immigrants from detention and deportation. We also advocate for immigrants' rights in the fight for justice, and educate the community about immigration.
$6,415,978 spentof which $1,345,741 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,415,978.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $8.7M to $13M (+52%).
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: 2019 60% · 2020 56% · 2021 53% · 2022 58% · 2023 64% · 2024 71% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Cathryn Miller-Wilson Esq
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $926k → $1.1M.
14 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.4M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 85% · 2019 37% · 2020 42% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 27% — 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
52% of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
53% of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$1.2M
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 HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Pennsylvania Hias Indigent Immigrant Leg · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: 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 HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc?
- HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,086,544 to it, the largest being HIAS INC ($1,107,552). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $8,086,544 in grants to HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc?
- HIAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,107,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 51 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