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Alliance for a Just Society

To support community organizing efforts that promote the social welfare of poor and working families. It shall also provide financial support for activities that promote the social welfare and for other charitable and educational purposes as defined by 501c3 of the internal revenue code including fiscal sponsorship.

$663k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$618k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$44,750
Largest grant, FY2024
$134,200
Organizations funded a year
4 to 17
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Alliance for a Just Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EnvironmentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$618k83%
FY20235$280k100%
FY20224$92k100%
FY202117$244k88%
FY20206$323kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$374kArts & Culture$371kCommunity Improvement$262kHuman Services$113kCivil Rights$110kEmployment$100kEnvironment$80kSocial Science$55kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
SD
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
HI
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tribal Minds Inc$158,982180%
Native American Community Development Institute$134,20017%
Mighty Few Economic Development Authority$129,3501n/a
Powerpac Foundation$100,00013%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$100,0001n/a
Balsa Policy Institute Inc$90,0001n/a
The Mobilization Center LLC$83,4501n/a
Menikanaehkem Inc$68,3001n/a
Consortium for Change DBA ChangeLab$65,7002n/a
Arizona Native Vote$60,90014%
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All grantees of Alliance for a Just Society by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tribal Minds Inc$158,982180%
Native American Community Development Institute$134,20017%
Mighty Few Economic Development Authority$129,3501n/a
Powerpac Foundation$100,00013%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$100,0001n/a
Balsa Policy Institute Inc$90,0001n/a
The Mobilization Center LLC$83,4501n/a
Menikanaehkem Inc$68,3001n/a
Consortium for Change DBA ChangeLab$65,7002n/a
Arizona Native Vote$60,90014%
American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc$54,75021%
Coffee Pot Farm fiscal Alliance for Just Societ$48,4312n/a
Utah Dine Bikeyah$36,00013%
Creative Visions Foundation$36,00010%
Lhaq'Temish Foundation$30,00011%
Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation$30,00012%
Lele Aloha$24,43214%
Fusion Partnership Inc$21,20020%
Active Transportation Alliance$20,00011%
Marta Army Inc$20,0001n/a
Community Partners$20,00010%
Center for Neighborhood Technology$20,00011%
Phoenix Indian Center Inc$17,85010%
Red Hawks American Indian Educational and Culture$17,850142%
Harness Community$15,00010%
Dakota Rural Action$15,00012%
Eastrail Partners$11,50015%
Native Movement$11,20010%
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment$10,00011%
Bicycle Colorado$10,00011%
Honor the Earth$10,00010%
Bay Mills Indian Community$10,0001n/a
Sustain Charlotte Inc$10,00011%
Southwest Organizing Project$10,00011%
Family Forward Oregon$10,00010%
Pittsburghers for Public Transit$10,00012%
Nakagawa Strategies LLC$10,0001n/a
Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia$10,00011%
Dlp Productions LLC$9,0981n/a
Thomas Merton Center Inc$8,00012%

Where it is load-bearing

Alliance for a Just Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTribal Minds Inc: $158,982 over 1y, 80% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute: $134,200 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetPowerpac Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetArizona Native Vote: $60,900 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAmerican Indian Youth Running Strong Inc: $54,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $36,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCreative Visions Foundation: $36,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLhaq'Temish Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWillamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLele Aloha: $24,432 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $21,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetActive Transportation Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Partners: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Neighborhood Technology: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPhoenix Indian Center Inc: $17,850 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRed Hawks American Indian Educational and Culture: $17,850 over 1y, 42% of budgetHarness Community: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDakota Rural Action: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEastrail Partners: $11,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNative Movement: $11,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBicycle Colorado: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHonor the Earth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSustain Charlotte Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSouthwest Organizing Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Forward Oregon: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPittsburghers for Public Transit: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThomas Merton Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United States Energy FoundationCA24.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Transitcenter Inc · Ndn Collective Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Illuminative Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Alliance for a Just Society?

Find your warmest path to Alliance for a Just Society through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Alliance for a Just Society

How much does Alliance for a Just Society give?
Alliance for a Just Society reported 12 itemized grants totaling $618,482, out of $663,282 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Alliance for a Just Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (24%), Arts & Culture (24%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are Alliance for a Just Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Tribal Minds Inc ($159k), Native American Community Development Institute ($134k), Mighty Few Economic Development Authority ($129k).
Does Alliance for a Just Society fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for a Just Society?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, First Nations Development Institute, Common Counsel Foundation.
Where is Alliance for a Just Society based?
Alliance for a Just Society is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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