Tennessee · Nonprofit
MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN
MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,416,078 to it, the largest being VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ($1,121,901). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $981k
What Mid-South Immigration Advocates In does
Mission
The organization is a law firm whose core mission is to provide low-cost immigration representation to low-income clients residing within the mid- south
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is a law firm whose core mission is to provide low-cost immigration representation to low-income clients residing within the mid- south
$1,243,612 spent$954,441 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,243,612.
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 2021 to 2022, from $316k to $1.4M (+341%).
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 42% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2020 34% · 2021 22% · 2022 4% · 2023 15% · 2024 18% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Nathaniel Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $69.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN’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
MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 66% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN has grown faster than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.9M
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 MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN: 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 MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN?
- MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,416,078 to it, the largest being VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ($1,121,901). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,416,078 in grants to MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN?
- VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,121,901 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-SOUTH IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES IN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 9 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