New York · Nonprofit
IMMIGRATION EQUALITY
IMMIGRATION EQUALITY (New York) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,310,398 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,122,486). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Immigration Equality does
Mission
Immigration Equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal services - Immigration Equality provides direct legal services and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive (lgbtq/h) immigrants. We currently provide legal representation to more than 500 lgbtq/h individuals through our in-house legal team and nationwide pro bono network. Our staff attorneys provide direct legal representation and train pro bono attorneys on how to represent their asylum clients. Our legal team also represents lgbtq/h asylum seekers detained in immigration jails, securing their release, representing them directly or helping them secure legal counsel, and providing them with significant resources to help themselves. Finally, we identify lgbtq/h refugees in need of support, and help them file their applications for resettlement to safer countries.
$1,483,628 spent88% of program spendingOutreach - Immigration Equality's communications and education efforts focus on the discriminatory impact of immigration law and policy on lgbtq/h immigrants and their families and what the organization's supporters can do to effect positive change. Immigration Equality's communications team secures coverage in hundreds of outlets each year, across print, digital, tv, and radio. Our website attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year, and our social media channels are followed by more than 50,000 people. In addition, Immigration Equality's email list reaches up to 20,000 individuals on a regular basis.
$203,551 spent12% of program spendingPolicy advocacy - Immigration Equality works to advance policies that protect lgbtq/h asylum seekers and detained individuals. In meetings, briefings, and hearings in washington, d.c., we educate decision makers about the dangers that lgbtq/h immigrants face. Our clients, who have faced these dangers themselves, share their personal testimonies of discrimination and violence. We lay bare the toll of harmful policies and programs, and we work in coalitions to put forward solutions. By submitting comments to administrative agencies, crafting and endorsing policies, and responding to issues in the press, we push our leaders to create lasting change in the immigration system that benefits our constituents.
$14 spent0% of program spendingRefugee resettlement - traditional refugee programs often miss lgbtq/h people because of the unique challenges they face. We create new ways for lgbtq/h refugees to find resettlement opportunities outside their home countries. Since our program launched, we've helped lgbtq/h refugees from countries including afghanistan, colombia, egypt, el salvador, iran, iraq, guinea, kenya, rwanda, somalia, south sudan, syria, and uganda.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,687,193.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $2.6M (+73%).
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: 2017 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 18% · 2022 28% · 2023 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of IMMIGRATION EQUALITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Aaron Morris
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica M Klein
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $520k → $1.1M.
19 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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: $174k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Immigration Equality Action Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money IMMIGRATION EQUALITY raised.
From the IRS filings of IMMIGRATION EQUALITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
IMMIGRATION EQUALITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
57% 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 IMMIGRATION EQUALITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 39% · 2019 48% · 2020 52% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 45% — 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
32% of IMMIGRATION EQUALITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
78% of IMMIGRATION EQUALITY's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
IMMIGRATION EQUALITY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like IMMIGRATION EQUALITY
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Immigration Equality Action Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMMIGRATION EQUALITY: 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 IMMIGRATION EQUALITY?
- IMMIGRATION EQUALITY (New York) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,310,398 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,122,486). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMMIGRATION EQUALITY have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $7,310,398 in grants to IMMIGRATION EQUALITY, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMMIGRATION EQUALITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,122,486 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMMIGRATION EQUALITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 92 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