Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS
TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,432 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION ($380,207). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors does
Mission
To provide free and affordable immigration legal services to individuals who fall below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines or face other financial barriers to accessing legal representation, to educate the public about issues related to immigration, and to advocate on behalf of the immigrant community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, tnjfon provided legal representation in 1,500 extended representation cases and opened 612 new cases. This year, tnjfon represented 945 clients: more than 460 positive case dispositions on behalf of clients; 49 were granted lawful permanent status. Legal representation for individuals on a pathway to citizenship often takes years, if not decades. Additionally, in 2025, tnjfon held, or presented at, 152 community engagement events,such as educating (I) law students and lawyers on immigration law, (ii) immigrants on their rights and responsibilities, and (iii)clergy, educators, and other nonprofits who work with the immigrant population on various immigration-related topics.
$810,351 spent$49,881 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $810,351.
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 2023 to 2024, from $971k to $1.3M (+34%).
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 15% · 2021 0% · 2022 16% · 2023 42% · 2024 38% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $106k → $194k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS’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
TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — 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
50% of TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
85% of TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS
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
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS?
- TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,432 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION ($380,207). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,825,432 in grants to TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS?
- TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $380,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS 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.
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 29 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