Resurrection Project

About Resurrection Project

The Resurrection Project channels large-scale funding into immigrant legal services, with its 2025 grants dominated by seven-figure awards such as $1,278,911 to Highland Park Highwood Legal Aid Clinic and $1,057,969 to Beyond Legal Aid. Across the recent grant list, the organization backs a broad network of legal aid, community, and immigrant-serving nonprofits that help immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented individuals, and immigrant families access representation and support. That pattern fits its stated mission of building trusting relationships that educate and propel individuals and families toward stable homes, equitable participation, and community ownership. The foundation’s recent giving is heavily oriented toward Immigration Legal and Support Services, and many grants are directed to organizations working on case-based legal representation, deportation defense, asylum assistance, naturalization, and family-based immigration services. It also operates active grant programs, including immigrant justice subgrant programs and the Colibrí Fellowship, which supports nonprofit staff pursuing DOJ Accreditation. As a Public Charity and Pure DAF Provider, The Resurrection Project combines programmatic funding with direct support for the immigrant-serving infrastructure around Chicago and beyond.

What Resurrection Project Funds

Immigration legal services are the clearest throughline in The Resurrection Project’s grantmaking. In 2025, it awarded $987,492 to Children's Legal Center for Immigration Legal and Support Services and $939,805 to Immigration Project for the same purpose, showing sustained support for representation and legal access. The foundation also funds community-based immigrant service organizations. It gave $925,769 to Erie Neighborhood House and $582,488 to Hana Center, both in Chicago, for Immigration Legal and Support Services. Those grants sit alongside support for organizations serving specific communities, including $558,123 to Muslim Women Resource Center and $258,719 to Syrian Community Network. Another visible theme is place-based legal aid and organizing. The Resurrection Project awarded $643,459 to Chicago Workers Collaborative and $248,520 to Southwest Organizing Project, indicating that its funding reaches beyond one-off casework and into community infrastructure that can connect immigrants and workers to services.

How Resurrection Project Gives