Colorado Immigrant Justice Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881529558
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039447146
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $384,454
- Expenses
- $358,987
- Assets
- $96,362
- Liabilities
- $11,661
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Greg Mortimer (President)
People named in this filing
- Greg Mortimer (President)
- Antoinette Johnson (Secretary)
- Claudia Brett Goldin (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide legal education and resources for immigrants who are seeking refuge and asylum or are in a removal process with a focus on underserved areas. Our goal is to help them obtain freedom, independence and a pathway to becoming contributing members of society in the United States. Our funding will support immigrants of all faiths, belief systems, races, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations.
What it reported doing in 2025
By expanding its legal network from 5 to 20 partner attorneys, CIJF increased its services at the Aurora Immigrant Detention Center. It funded 98 consultations, nearly five times the 2024 total, and provided full representation for 36 immigrants. CIJF also funded the logistical support for Denvers NewLife Legal Clinic, enabling 228 immigrants from 13 countries to submit complex I589 asylum applications. In partnership with the Southern California Immigration Project, CIJF funded 26 asylum cases for immigrants detained in Calexico, CA. In Louisiana, CIJF provided 30000 dollars in funding towards a 100000 dollar matching grant, enabling Home is Here NOLA to hire an immigration attorney to provide legal services to immigrants detained in Louisiana.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 57.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $328K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.