New Jersey · Nonprofit
LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC
LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,220,068 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($834,650). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $804k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $522k
What Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc does
Mission
To promote the rights of all immigrants (with a focus on the latin american community in the mercer county area); facilitate access to healthcare, education, and legal representation; advocate for the integration of immigrants; and foster intercultural communication that strengthens communities served.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community center - casa de bienvenida, the trenton community center, is a resource hub for the city's latino and other immigrants, serving over 3,000 households annually. Casa de bienvenida is open six days a week, year round, with the goal of increasing the social capital of immigrant households. Our community outreach department disseminates essential and reliable information on relevant topics as well as issuing mercer county id cards to extend access to basic services. Our adult education programs include courses in the areas of language acquisition,citizenship prep, and high school equivalency. Also provided are immigration legal services.
$519,151 spent$47,716 earned by the program81% of program spendingYouth development - futuro program which is an inclusive and diverse youth mentoring program for first and second generation immigrant students. As part of this program, the organization provides mentoring and tutoring, sat/act prep, assistance with scholarship and college applications, resume development, financial literacy, visits to college campuses, and more complementary to the futuro program is futuro familia, which provides a forum for families of students to discuss concerns about the application process, as well as holistic family support. Laldef works with and engages entire families, understanding that by engaging with the community in thisway, we improve the lives of parents and their children.
$120,226 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $639,377.
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 2017 to 2018, from $77k to $409k (+433%).
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% · 2018 9% · 2019 14% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 69% · 2023 66% · 2024 75% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Pete Taft
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $103k → $239k.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 26% · 2020 55% · 2021 53% · 2022 40% · 2023 48% — 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
47% of LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 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
76% of LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $948k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $180k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$180k
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 LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 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 LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC?
- LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,220,068 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($834,650). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,220,068 in grants to LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $834,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 35 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