California · Nonprofit
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,017,391 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($11,720,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $118M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Immigrant Legal Resource Center does
Mission
To work with and educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to continue to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Technical assistance and capacity building - provide expertise on complex issues of immigration law, procedure and policy, and build the capacity of our partner organizations.
$15,880,785 spentof which $7,002,911 as grants$1,772,281 earned by the program82% of program spendingPolicy and advocacy - engage in advocacy and educational initiatives on policies that impact immigrants.
$2,517,686 spentof which $647,829 as grants13% of program spendingCivic engagement - engage immigrants and develop their leadership in a democratic process.
$968,341 spentof which $455,576 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,366,812.
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 2020 to 2021, from $34M to $41M (+23%).
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: 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 28% · 2021 11% · 2022 23% · 2023 14% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Eric Cohen
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Spiegel
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $17M → $24M.
26 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 RESOURCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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 RESOURCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
36% 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 RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 35% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 25% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% — 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
45% of IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 RESOURCE CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
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 IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: 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 RESOURCE CENTER?
- IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,017,391 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($11,720,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $118,017,391 in grants to IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $11,720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 121 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