Neighbors Immigration Clinic Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834400657
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lexington, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8596996948
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $307,617
- Expenses
- $261,060
- Assets
- $58,599
- Liabilities
- $2,978
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Matt Boaz (Chairman)
- Juan Castro (Treasurer)
- Mizari Suarez (Executive Dir.)
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
Neighbors Immigration Clinic is a ministry of hospitality that welcomes immigrants by providing affordable, high-quality immigration legal services to low-income immigrants, engaging in advocacy for immigrant rights, and offering education to communities of faith and the public. We are prepared to work with the resources already available in our community to make Lexington a more hospitable and welcoming community for our immigrant neighbors.
What it reported doing in 2025
There were an estimated 50,000 undocumented immigrants in Kentucky in 2014 or 1.1 of the state population. 56,157 people in Kentucky, including 22,262 born in the US, lived with at least one undocumented family member. Nearly 3,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival DACA recipients live in Kentucky. However, immigrants have little access to legal services to navigate the U.S. justice system because current legal clinics in Kentucky are either inaccessible due to cost or overloaded with clients. We are excited to welcome our immigrant neighbors to Kentucky through low-cost legal services, specifically in Lexington, Eastern Kentucky, Northern Kentucky and beyond. Currently we are looking for people who believe in this work and want to partner with us financially.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.5%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.5% of revenue deployed · 63.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $165K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.