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Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services

Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,678 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($1,331,352). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$54k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$55k
4/7 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services does

Mission

Provides free immigration legal services to immigrants, refugees, foreign-born individuals and their family members who reside in pennsylvania. Individuals receiving the services are those who are unable to afford the services of a private attorney. All of those served have income that is 187.50% of the poverty line or below.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provides free immigration legal services to immigrants, refugees, foreign-born individuals and their family members who reside in pennsylvania. Individuals receiving the services are those who are unable to afford the services of a private attorney. All of those served have income that is 187.50% of the poverty line or below.

    $385,841 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $385,841.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2020 Revenue 212 ($207k) Expenses 160 ($125k) Net assets 225 ($148k)2021 Revenue 136 ($133k) Expenses 218 ($170k) Net assets 169 ($111k)2022 Revenue 239 ($233k) Expenses 329 ($257k) Net assets 133 ($87k)2023 Revenue 317 ($310k) Expenses 316 ($247k) Net assets 228 ($150k)2024 Revenue 472 ($461k) Expenses 396 ($309k) Net assets 460 ($302k)2025 Revenue 55 ($54k) Expenses 494 ($386k) Net assets 84 ($55k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (55)Expenses (494)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range

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 $140k to $360k (+158%).

$112k
$307k
$140k
$360k
$197k
$308k
$157k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 94% · 2021 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’19
$82k
’20
−$37k
’21
−$24k
’22
$63k
’23
$152k
’24
−$332k
’25
0.1
months of
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

Cathryn Miller-Wilson Esq

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

20202021202220232024
Listed8891112
Joined·+1+3+3+3
No longer listed·1212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $55k → $256k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $98k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Philadelphia Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services raised.

From the IRS filings of Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services’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

Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services.

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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

100% of Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
NJ
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−614% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services: 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 Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services?
Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,678 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($1,331,352). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,438,678 in grants to Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services?
PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $1,331,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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