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Immigrant Family Defense Fund

Immigrant Family Defense Fund (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$465k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$93k
Net assets
$367k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Immigrant Family Defense Fund does

Mission

The Immigrant Family Defense Fund IFDF supports immigrant families in California public schools by helping them access qualified immigration legal services mental health and other support and to cover the cost of immigration bond if a family member is detained. IFDF works closely with local school districts to help ensure that a students immigration status or that of their parents is not a barrier to academic success and mental and emotional health.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The majority of IFDFs time and resources are dedicated to connecting immigrant families in California public schools to qualified immigration legal representation and providing financial support for those services where possible.

    $261,786 spent$465,010 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,786.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2022 Revenue 224 ($258k) Expenses 320 ($231k) Net assets 162 ($70k)2023 Revenue 40 ($46k) Expenses 158 ($114k) Net assets 3 ($1k)2024 Revenue 254 ($293k) Expenses 172 ($124k) Net assets 397 ($170k)2025 Revenue 404 ($465k) Expenses 372 ($269k) Net assets 854 ($367k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (404)Expenses (372)Net assets (854)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 2024 to 2025, from $173k to $369k (+114%).

$46k
$72k
$4k
$173k
$369k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Immigrant Family Defense Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,975 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’21
$27k
’22
−$68k
’23
$169k
’24
$196k
’25
17
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

Trevor Houser

Director - CEO - Secretary - Treasurer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

202220242025
Listed333
Joined··+2
No longer listed··2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $20k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Immigrant Family Defense Fund’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

Immigrant Family Defense Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

97% 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 Immigrant Family Defense Fund.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 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

97% of Immigrant Family Defense Fund'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

NY
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Immigrant Family Defense Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Immigrant Family Defense Fund

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Immigrant Family Defense Fund: 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 Immigrant Family Defense Fund?
Immigrant Family Defense Fund (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Immigrant Family Defense Fund have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $92,500 in grants to Immigrant Family Defense Fund, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Immigrant Family Defense Fund?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Immigrant Family Defense Fund 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.

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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 2021–2025), 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