Texas · Nonprofit
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES (Texas) receives grants from 563 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,637,990 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($10,859,663). 275 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 563
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services does
Mission
To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. And cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal and social services: raices provides trauma-informed, culturally-competent legal support to immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families, with a focus on removal defense for those who have a pathway to lawful relief in the u.s. In 2024, raices served nearly 5,000 released and detained clients from over 65 countries of birth, averaging more than two case processes per client, and specialized in expedited removal legal services in response to rapidly changing border policies and internal enforcement measures.
$26,104,498 spentof which $217,698 as grants$20,492,707 earned by the program87% of program spendingRefugee client services: as part of a national refugee aid network, raices facilitates pathways for individual and family self-sufficiency in texas through reception and placement, matching grant, cash and medical assistance, preferred communities, employment services, social adjustment services, refugee health promotion, and pc gaps programming initiatives. Throughout the 2024 calendar year, raices accelerated support of eligible clients in accordance with federal mandates, serving nearly 3,300 community members as they put down roots in the u.s.
$2,100,362 spentof which $406,357 as grants7% of program spendingRights advocacy: raices legal advocacy and strategic litigation initiatives defend access to asylum nationally and mitigate the harms of detention conditions on immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families in federal government custody. Programming leverages client education, the courts, and the power of public action to preserve the human and legal rights enshrined in the u.s. Constitution, as well as international and federal law. In 2024, raices addressed harms incurred by clients through wrongful imprisonment, family separation, and asylum bans, and prepared for anticipated challenges to existing immigration statutes under a new administration.
$1,800,312 spentof which $1,718,809 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,005,172.
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 $4.5M to $47M (+949%).
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: 2020 0% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Dolores K Schroeder
CEO/president
Board chair
Jayci Giaccone
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 144 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $11M.
90 of 563 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 563 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
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
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 REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 16% · 2019 15% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 22% · 2023 35% — 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
26% of REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 43 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES?
- REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES (Texas) receives grants from 563 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,637,990 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($10,859,663). 275 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 563 organizations giving $60,637,990 in grants to REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES, 275 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES?
- US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,859,663 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 563 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