Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,204,522 to it, the largest being RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ($380,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $973k
What Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice does
Mission
Mabel center's mission is to provide expert pro bono legal services to asylum-seeking families that have been seperated, detained in family detention centers, and/or subjected to expedited removal through dedicated docket.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice provides pro bono legal services to asylum-seeking families that have been separated, detained in family detention centers, and/or subjected to expedited removal through the dedicated docket. We take on tough and complex defensive asylum cases, representing primarily women, children, and lgbtq+ people whose strength and resilience have allowed them to survive inconceivable violence in pursuit of safety in the united states. During fy 2025, mabel center served 748 individuals. Mabel center attorneys' legal strategy and approach has led to remarkable success in winning asylum for their clients. Our attorneys have secured asylum for 30 clients they have represented in court in the last three years.in addition to providing full legal representation to clients seeking asylum, mabel center handles pro se asylum applications, employment authorization documents, special immigrant juveniles, temporary protected status applications, green cards, and violence against women act cases. Mabel center attorneys and staff have volunteered at family detention centers, worked alongside organizations at the border, and annually work at the border. Due to the…
$762,268 spentof which $336 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $762,268.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $551k to $1.3M (+128%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 9% · 2024 8% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Jill Seeber
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $117k → $535k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 51% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $975k 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.
Against its field
MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: 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 MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE?
- MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,204,522 to it, the largest being RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ($380,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,204,522 in grants to MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE?
- RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 32 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