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California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty gas-fired power plants, and drill sites next to our homes and schools. We organize against oil and gas…

$833k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$90,555
Largest grant, FY2024
$317,547
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$7.0M

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Communities for a Better Environment$484,76816%
Sierra Club Foundation$285,00010%
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice$150,556116%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy$97,22212%
Center on Race Poverty & the Environment$90,55513%
Environmental Health Coalition$90,55513%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$87,22111%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education$37,22311%
Physicians for Social Responsibility$37,22212%
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability$37,22211%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget California Environmental Justice Alliance supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunities for a Better Environment: $484,768 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $285,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Community Action and Environmental Justice: $150,556 over 1y, 16% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $97,222 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCenter on Race Poverty & the Environment: $90,555 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition: $90,555 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $87,221 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $37,223 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPhysicians for Social Responsibility: $37,222 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLeadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability: $37,222 over 1y, 0.5% 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 10.

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 …Asian Pacific Environ…The Libra FoundationThe Energy FoundationNatural Resources Def…The California Wellne…Amalgamated Charitabl…Environmental Health …Women's Foundation of…Movement Strategy Cen…The Satterberg Founda…Resources Legacy Fund
United States Energy FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Asian Pacific Environmental Network · The Libra Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Environmental Health Coalition · Women's Foundation of California · Movement Strategy Center · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Resources Legacy Fund

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 California Environmental Justice Alliance?

Find your warmest path to California Environmental Justice Alliance 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 California Environmental Justice Alliance

How much does California Environmental Justice Alliance give?
California Environmental Justice Alliance reported 12 grants totaling $833,332 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does California Environmental Justice Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (74%), Crime & Legal (22%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are California Environmental Justice Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Communities for a Better Environment ($485k), Sierra Club Foundation ($285k), Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice ($151k).
Which funders back the same organizations as California Environmental Justice Alliance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, The Libra Foundation.
Where is California Environmental Justice Alliance based?
California Environmental Justice Alliance is based in CA.

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 11 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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