Maine · Nonprofit
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT (Maine) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,252,209 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($2,193,230). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project does
Mission
The Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project helps low-income immigrants improve their legal status, and works for more just and humane laws and policies affecting immigrants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Direct legal services: ilap offers a range of direct legal services in response to community needs, including full representation, consultations, and pro se assistance. In 2024, we provided direct legal services to 2,470 people, maintaining a greater than 99% approval rate for full representation cases that received a final decision. In addition, pro bono attorneys donated 2,265 hours of their time at a value of 834,315.
$2,086,210 spent$238 earned by the program81% of program spendingCommunity education: ilap provides accurate and accessible information on complex legal issues in multiple languages for immigrant community members, groups, and service providers across the state. In 2024, we hosted 119 in- person or virtual outreach events attended by 2,744 individuals. We also expanded the legal education and self-help tools available online. Our website had 159,000 unique visitors and our social media pages reached nearly 35,000 people.
$386,335 spent15% of program spendingSystemic advocacy: ilap collaborates with immigrant-led groups, partners in maine's immigrant justice movement, and regional and national organizations to safeguard and promote legal protections for the state's immigrant communities. In 2024, we served as a source of accurate information for the media on 33 occasions and endorsed 35 policy recommendation letters and joined public comments on a range of local, state, and federal issues related to immigration law and policy.
$103,023 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,575,568.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $2.1M (−24%).
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: 2023 23% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $495k → $1.3M.
13 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 33% · 2019 40% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 37% · 2023 43% — 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
56% of IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
54% of IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT'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 $4.7M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M 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
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT is better cushioned than half 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
Organizations like IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT?
- IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT (Maine) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,252,209 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($2,193,230). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $10,252,209 in grants to IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,193,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 83 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