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Climate Justice Alliance

CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE (cja) is a growing member alliance of more than 85 urban and rural frontline communities, organizations, and supporting networks in the climate justice movement.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Environment$5.9MCommunity Improvement$4.5MCivil Rights$1.9MEducation$825kFood & Nutrition$365kPublic Safety & Disaster$286kPhilanthropy$189kPublic Benefit$123kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $5,757,125 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,166,274 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,409,149 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $443k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $291k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.0M
$20,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY$4,000,000
CREATING COHESION$1,000,000
MOVEMENT GENERATION$90,000
4DASOIL$85,000
ALABAMA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT DBA THE PEOPLE'S JUSTICE COUNCIL$66,000
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL$50,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT$40,000
SOULARDARITY$35,000
KHEPRW INSTITUTE$32,600
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$28,000
ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE$28,000
NC CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE$21,600
NUMA'LO REFILLERY BARRIGADA GUAM$20,040
DUK DUK GOOSE INC$20,000
LITTLE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%The Smile Trust: $31k → 15%Natures Garden Victory Peace: $40k → 32%Cooperation Jackson: $16k → 23%THE SMILE TRUST: $10k → 15%Natures Garden Victory Peace: $40k → 32%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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OR
IN
PA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.7M · 24 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
19

Total granted

$7.7M
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+5%

Still filing today

96%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    Solutions Project Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +72% · 46% of their budget
  • SD
    Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy
    2× · 2022–2023 · $573k · revenue +3%
  • UI
    UPROSE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $217k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WORKING WORLD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • NJ
    New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • TN
    The New School
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
3
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice

Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.

Environment
4
Electoral Collective

Electoral Collective coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
5
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
6
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
7
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
8
Climate Justice Hive

To connect, support, and uplift the various climate justice efforts, inspiring systems change in a metropolitan area.

Environment
9
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
10
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
11
Earthworks

The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…

Public Benefit
12
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%16%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%14%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%65%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
3/61
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,917

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Solutions Project Inc — $4,835,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Project IncUrban Tilth — $200,750 · Environment+11 more — $274,100 · EnvironmentINVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY — $4,000,000 · OtherINVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITYCREATING COHESION — $1,000,000 · OtherCREATING COHESION+23 more — $791,710 · Other+23 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $594,166 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FU…Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy — $573,200 · EducationSmartmeme DBA …Movement Generation — $282,750 · EducationMovement Gener…Kheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI — $141,110 · EducationKheprw Institu…INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $132,385 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENV…4DASOIL — $125,000 · Education4DASOIL+2 more — $36,600 · EducationALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $144,060 · Community ImprovementCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA — $115,560 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementOPAL — $25,660 · Community Improvement+1 more — $8,500 · Community ImprovementPUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $144,800 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $132,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyMicronesia Climate Change Alliance Inc — $159,655 · Human ServicesNATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE SMILE TRUST — $41,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI — $15,750 · Human ServicesUPROSE INC — $216,750 · Youth DevelopmentACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $25,000 · Youth Development
Environment$5,309,850Other$5,791,710Education$1,885,211Community Improvement$368,780Philanthropy$361,800Human Services$296,405Youth Development$241,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSolutions Project Inc — $4,835,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $594,166 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSmartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy — $573,200 over 2y, 20% of budgetMovement Generation — $282,750 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetUPROSE INC — $216,750 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetUrban Tilth — $200,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMicronesia Climate Change Alliance Inc — $159,655 over 4y, 13% of budgetPUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $144,800 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $144,060 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetKheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI — $141,110 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $132,385 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $132,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget4DASOIL — $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDetroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network — $123,060 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA — $115,560 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetNATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC — $80,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE — $66,080 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC — $49,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $42,880 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SMILE TRUST — $41,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNew Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING & EMPOWERMENT CONNECTION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetFarmworker Association of Florida Inc — $32,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEAST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL INC — $32,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $28,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe New School — $26,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPAL — $25,660 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Carolina Climate Justice Collective — $21,600 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $16,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH PEACE-BUILDERS — $15,250 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY — $14,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $14,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Windward FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Movement Strategy Cen…Social and Environmen…Solutions Project IncImpactassetsincTides FoundationGrassroots Internatio…The Schmidt Family Fo…United States Energy …PatagoniaorgCommon Counsel Founda…
Windward FundDC69.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Movement Strategy Center · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Grassroots International Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Common Counsel Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Climate Justice Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines