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NIJC NFP

EIN 93-3878636 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$22,135,576
Expenses 2024
$16,263,505

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
111 W JACKSON BLVD STE 800

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Activities or mission (Part I)

NIJC provides legal services to low-income immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

  • NIJC is a national organization headquartered in Chicago, IL, with a Washington, DC team and offices in Goshen and Indianapolis, IN, and San Diego, CA. NIJC provides legal services to low-income noncitizens who are generally at or below 200 percent of the poverty line, including unaccompanied immigrant children, refugees, asylum seekers, immigrant families at risk of separation, survivors of torture and human trafficking, LGBTQ individuals, detained immigrants, and individuals with mental and physical health conditions. NIJC's legal services include providing legal information, conducting comprehensive legal screenings, representing noncitizens in their legal cases, seeking legal status and employment authorization. NIJC operates an immigration court help desk, which provides a critical resource to unrepresented immigrants in removal proceedings. Building on its direct service work, NIJC pursues legal reform to protect access to justice and the due process rights of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. NIJC strategically litigates in the courts laws and practices that violate the human rights of noncitizens. NIJC also educates key stakeholders and the public on immigration policies and practices through policy analysis, report writing, and educating policymakers and the public. NIJC's goal is to promote access to justice, advance human rights, and preserve family and community integrity. Accomplishments: NIJC staff have extensive legal expertise and achieve high rates of success. NIJC collaborates with a wide group of partners, including universities, community organizations, social service providers, schools, and grassroots organizations, and leverages a network of approximately 2,400 pro bono partners to provide legal services to more than 11,000 immigrants annually. Given NIJC's legal expertise, NIJC trains legal aid organizations and pro bono attorneys. Through the immigration court helpdesk, NIJC identifies and responds to emergencies, explains legal options that help immigrants make informed decisions. Last year, nearly 1,400 individuals were granted relief, and more than 1,000 individuals were granted employment authorization. NIJC maintained a success rate of approximately 98% in cases adjudicated. With legal status and/or work authorizations, these individuals can provide for their families and are on the path towards stability and safety. NIJC regularly presents to the community, schools, social service organizations, and domestic violence groups. NIJC has developed Know Your Rights materials and other FAQs and factsheets. These are particularly important as immigration law frequently changes. NIJC, along with its partners, challenges court decisions, policies and practices that violate the due process and human rights of immigrants. NIJC's litigation team often wins relief for its clients and secures changes in the law and/or secures settlements for the plaintiffs. NIJC educates the public and policymakers through research, reports, presentations, and the media.

    Expenses $13,997,888 · Revenue $1,141,563

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Abiman Rajadurai

    Board treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chad Doobay

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kathleen Hechinger

    Board Finance Chair (beg Sept 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lee Ann Russo

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mary Meg McCarthy

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $136,038
    From this org
    $128,224
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,814
    Hours/week
    50

  • Sherene Jodrey

    Board Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Gretchen Wolf

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • James Morsch

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joan Coogan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Skakun

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Klawiter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Fortino-Brown

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Catalina Salley

    COO

    Total calculated
    $103,192
    From this org
    $96,448
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,744
    Hours/week
    50

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $22,135,576
    Expenses
    $16,263,505
    Contributions
    $20,742,485
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,221,801
    Expenses
    $2,759,472
    Contributions
    $8,200,619
    Grants paid
    $74,360

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.