Applications are now being accepted for the Immigrant Legal Services Fund.
Donor Name: Indianapolis Foundation
State: Indiana
County: Marion County (IN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The fund prioritizes grants to organizations that offer both prevention and intervention immigration legal services. Prevention efforts may include DACA renewals, naturalization applications, and work authorization filings. Intervention services may involve legal defense during deportation proceedings, bond hearings, asylum claims, and more.
The Indianapolis Foundation and The Clowes Fund continue to engage with legal service providers to strengthen the city’s immigrant legal services ecosystem, identify gaps, and collaborate on long-term strategies to increase capacity and impact. This fund invites broader community participation to help create a more just and inclusive future for all.
Grant Focus
The Immigrant Legal Services Fund focuses on efforts including but not limited to:
- Providing assistance with USCIS applications. For example, supporting with DACA, N400, and i765 applications
- Providing removal defense before an immigration court
- Providing assistance in seeking asylum or withholding of removal (affirmative or defensive)
- Providing legal defense during bond hearing.
Funding Information
Grant awards range from $50,000 to $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered 501(c)3 organizations.
- Organizations that have partnered with a registered not-for-profit fiscal agent.
- Priority will be given to organizations that demonstrate a strong record of providing high-quality legal representation to immigrant Hoosiers navigating USCIS processes, detained immigrants, and/or immigrants facing removal.
- Organizations must have licensed attorneys on staff with immigration law experience of at least two years or more.
- Organizations must demonstrate that all professionals (attorneys, social workers, etc.) involved in providing services have the appropriate professional licenses and are in good standing professionally.
- If serving detained individuals, the organization should demonstrate the ability to consult with and represent clients in area detention facilities.
- Commit to community engagement and to building power in communities impacted by immigration enforcement.
- For organizations looking to add an immigration department they must have a track record of serving Immigrant community members for the last 5 years.
For more information, visit Indianapolis Foundation.
