Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC
IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,000 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($770,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Immigration Reform Law Institute Inc does
Mission
The immigration reform law institute, inc. (irli) promotes diligent enforcement of immigration laws in keeping with congressional intent; and to help protect all americans, not least the poor, who are harmed by uncontrolled and unlawful immigration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Irli's program activities were absorbed by parent organization, fair, on 8/1/25.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Irli maintained more than 150 active cases and filed numerous friend-of-the-court briefs in the united states supreme court, the united states court of appeals, united states district courts, and state courts concerning national security and national sovereignty, protecting federal-state cooperation in immigration enforcement, protecting american workers, protecting the environment, defending pro-enforcement state and local officials, ending public-benefit windfalls for illegal aliens, defending pro-enforcement federal, state and local laws, policies, referenda, and initiatives, protecting electoral process integrity, protecting the efficiency of immigration enforcement, and exposing government action to public inspection through foia lawsuits.
$1,204,863 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,204,863.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $6.2M to $5.1M (−18%).
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: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $300k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 89% · 2021 63% · 2022 70% · 2023 67% — 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
60% of IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
70% of IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC'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 $357k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $818k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Federation for American Immigration Reform · exempt
- Fair Congressional Task Force Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE 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 IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC?
- IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,000 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($770,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,175,000 in grants to IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $770,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 10 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