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STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC

STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,382 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($200,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$432k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$812k
Net assets
$253k
13/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc does

Mission

To provide legal representation for all asylum seekers by training college students to become immigration advocates, and to fight for a socially just immigration sysyem and community transformation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. A national network of college students trained and mobilized to organize for policy change by providing pro bono legal representation to asylum seekers and empowering clients and other immigrants to lead on issues directly impacting them.

    $249,258 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $249,258.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2022 Revenue 682 ($300k) Expenses 2083 ($123k) Net assets 566 ($215k)2023 Revenue 335 ($147k) Expenses 3643 ($215k) Net assets 387 ($147k)2024 Revenue 640 ($281k) Expenses 3983 ($235k) Net assets 509 ($193k)2025 Revenue 985 ($432k) Expenses 6317 ($373k) Net assets 667 ($253k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (985)Expenses (6317)Net assets (667)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 $42k to $221k (+422%).

$42k
$221k
$149k
$196k
$258k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’21
$177k
’22
−$68k
’23
$46k
’24
$60k
’25
8.1
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

Jonathan Goldman

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5445
Joined·+0+0+1
No longer listed·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $6k → $123k.

4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC’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

STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

25%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 52% · 2022 82% · 2023 41% — 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

100% of STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

57% of STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
DE
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve8.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)77% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

State$15k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$15k

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 STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC

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In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 5%Fundraising 28%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: 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 STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC?
STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $812,382 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($200,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $812,382 in grants to STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC?
Lumina Foundation for Education Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC 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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing