Illinois · Nonprofit
VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES
VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,397 to it, the largest being LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS ($138,484). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $373k
- Net assets
- $153k
What Valley Immigrant Advocates does
Mission
Valley Immigrant Advocates (via) provides primarily immigration legal services, which include: consultation with clients and prospective clients on immigration laws and regulations, and available immigration benefits, etc
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Valley Immigrant Advocates (via) provides primarily immigration legal services, which include: consultation with clients and prospective clients on immigration laws and regulations, and available immigration benefits, information on the qualificatins for those benefits, as well as ssistance in drafting and filing applications for immigration benefits, and formal legal representation in applying for those benefits. Additionally, via is able to provide advice and assitance in other areas of law that are ancillary and closely related to immigration problems and fears of clients. For example, the need for posers of attorney to ensure care of family members in case of family separation/deportation of the client via also regularly makes referrals to other local attorneys, agencies and social service providers for non-immigration assistance.
$109,448 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $109,448.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $50k to $109k (+117%).
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: 2024 84% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
John Breslin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $16k → $31k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES’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
VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES: 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 VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES?
- VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,397 to it, the largest being LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS ($138,484). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $373,397 in grants to VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES?
- LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $138,484 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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