We Fund Lawsuits Fighting for IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Protecting Immigrant Rights by Funding Impact Lawsuits
Our purpose is to provide grants, legal support, and education to
support impact litigation on behalf of communities
seeking economic, environmental, racial, and social justice.
FIGHTing FOR LEGAL CHANGE TO BENEFIT EVERYONE
Let's make justice available to everyone, not just the wealthy. Together we can end injustices like anti-immigrant discrimination, gender discrimination, LGBTQ+ discrimination, ableism, unfair worker compensation, racial discrimination, wage theft, and environmental destruction. Join this important movement today.
Immigration Cases We’re Currently Funding
In D.N.N. v. Baker, our grantees are challenging denial of access to lawyers and inhumane detention conditions in ICE’s Baltimore Field Office.
In New York Immigration Coalition et al. v. Trump et al. our grantees are challenging the executive order ending birthright citizenship.
In Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights et al. v. Noem et al., our grantees are challenging deportation of legal U.S. residents with humanitarian parole status.
In Yeend et al. v. Akima Global Services, our grantees are challenging forced labor practices in privately-run detention centers.
In Ruderman et al. v. McHenry County et al., our grantees are challenging forced labor practices in Illinois county detention centers.
Impact Fund staff in matching Impact Fund hoodies.
Who we are:
The Impact Fund is a passionate group of legal experts supporting cases that positively impact the day-to-day lives of communities fighting for justice.
What we do:
Provide $10 million in grants to advance public interest litigation that benefits large numbers of people, leads to significant law reform and raises public consciousness.
Train the next generation of lawyers fighting for what’s right.
Take corporate America to court, fighting for workers’ rights, civil rights, and social justice. By winning these landmark cases we are able to establish a legal precedent for the future.
OUr legal team’s Victories in 2026:
Head Start programs provides food, education, and family services to more than 800,000 children every year.
In our lawsuit with the ACLU to protect Head Start programs, we stopped the Trump Administration from:
excluding children from Head Start based on immigration status, and
implementing their ban on “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” within the Head Start program and enacting further mass layoffs of federal Head Start staff and office closures.
Read more about how we protected immigrant children’s access to Head Start.
Read more about how we preserved Head Start programs across the country.
Gender-affirming care is legal in most states and endorsed by every major medical association.
In our lawsuit to protect Trans Youth at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles:
We stopped the Trump Administration from obtaining sweeping access to 3,000 minors' most sensitive medical records related to gender-affirming care.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO WIN MORE CASES LIKE THESE. DONATE NOW AND HELP US TO MAKE THE LEGAL SYSTEM WORK FOR THE 99%
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Map of Cases We’ve Funded
This interactive map displays the locations of cases brought by Impact Fund grantees from July 2016 to June 2025.
Hover over a dot to learn more about a particular case. Zoom in or click and drag to focus on a particular state or region. You can also zoom out further to see our grants made outside North America. The size of each dot correlates with the size of the grant amount.
Our approach
Grants
Learn about the types of cases we fund and how to apply for a grant in a new case.
Cases
Read more about the cases we are currently working on for social justice and change.
Legal Training
Learn about how we are training lawyers to be more effective at fighting for social justice.
