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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.

$833k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$318k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $737k
  • $250k+2 grants · $603k
$90,555
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CBE$317,547
Sierra Club Foundation$285,000
CBE$167,221
CCAEJ$150,556
CAUSE$97,222
CRPE$90,555
EHC$90,555
APEN$87,221
PODERTides Center$53,333
SCOPE$37,223
PSR-LA$37,222
LCJA$37,222
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PODERTides Center: $53k → 10%SCOPE: $37k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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…

Environment
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Central California Environmental Justice Network

To uplift low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley by ensuring access to clean air, water, land, and food sovereignty.

Environment
4
California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
5
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
6
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…

Environment
7
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
8
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
9
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
12
Coalition for Clean Air

To protect public health, improve air quality and prevent climate change.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability; the most unlike its peers is Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
0/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $484,768 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENTSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $285,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONEnvironmental Health Coalition: $90,555 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Health CoalitionAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $87,221 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific Environmental NetworkCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $150,556 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNIT…Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $97,222 · Community ImprovementCentral Coast Allia…TIDES CENTER: $53,333 · Human ServicesStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $37,223 · Human ServicesCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $90,555 · Crime & LegalPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $37,222 · InternationalLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $37,222 · Civil Rights
Environment$947,544Community Improvement$247,778Human Services$90,556Crime & Legal$90,555International$37,222Civil Rights$37,222

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $53,333 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization California Environmental Justice Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Environmental Justice Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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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.

    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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