Austin Region Jfon
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462866798
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5123261988
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $206,869
- Expenses
- $228,558
- Assets
- $13,665
- Liabilities
- $7,361
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEIA WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH WRIGHT (EXECUTIVE DI): $51,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Austin region justice for our neighbors, a non-profit law office, welcomes refugees and immigrants into our communities through free, high-quality immigration legal services, education, and advocacy. We believe it is not true justice if it relies on who can pay for it. We offer our legal services for free to clients whose household income is at or below 200% of the poverty level. We believe in respecting the human dignity of all people. This should be a priority from policy to the daily practice of law, education, and advocacy. We believe in generational change for our whole community through the work of immigration justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our legal team represents clients with humanitarian and family cases for immigration whose household income is at or below 200% of the poverty level. Alongside the main case, we work on applications for employment authorization (work permits), fee waivers, applications under the freedom of information act, and filing address changes. Generally, our case work with a client will conclude when we have helped them adjust status to lawful permanent resident, though we can and have worked on filing applications for naturalization (often at this point clients no longer qualify for our services due to income improvement). Our executive director, with the help of volunteers, coordinates various education programs, including immigration 101, myths of immigration, a series based on the book we published by the name "the truth in our stories", and other content shaped by current events. Represented 150 clients in legal proceedings for immigration status, defending at immigration court, pursuing state court rulings, applying for termination of proceedings, employment authorization documents, special immigrant juvenile status, adjustment of status, freedom of information act requests, and other case types.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -31.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 61.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.