Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,137,344 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($4,725,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What National Immigration Forum does
Mission
National Immigration Forum (the forum) advocates for the value of immigrants & immigration to the nation from varied perspectives. The forum uses communication, advocacy and policy to create a vision, consensus and strategy to lead to a safer and thriving america.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Constituencies reform - the forum supports updates to our broken immigration system with commonsense solutions that address the full scope of the system. Our immigration system needs to address the safety and economic needs of our country as well as maintain our family values.
$1,797,618 spent31% of program spendingConstituencies integration - the forum supports efforts to promote citizenship, civic education, and active involvement in community life, including changes to our country's naturalization process that will make it more accessible and efficient for immigrants.
$1,274,101 spent$234,227 earned by the program22% of program spendingCommunications - the forum's communications team is a strategic partner, working with all departments (policy, constituencies, corporate engagement, and advancement) to articulate messages and advance strategies that build support for commonsense immigration reform among our moderate-to-conservative constituencies. The communications team differentiates itself in the immigration advocacy space by leveraging its relationships in media, business, academia, and other areas to amplify constructive, constituency-developed messages.
$1,176,478 spent21% of program spendingPolicy
$1,057,463 spent$7,500 earned by the program19% of program spendingAwards event
$250,856 spent4% of program spendingAssociates and governance
$155,401 spent3% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,711,917.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $8.5M (−26%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Jennie Murray
President & CEO
Board chair
Elizabeth Neumann
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 23 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $4.2M → $3.6M.
19 of 68 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.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 20% · 2019 26% · 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 18% · 2023 17% — 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
44% of NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$250k
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 NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Immigration Forum Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM: 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 NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM?
- NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,137,344 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($4,725,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $37,137,344 in grants to NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $4,725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM 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.
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 68 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