How much does Climate Justice Alliance give?

Climate Justice Alliance reported 33 itemized grants totaling $5,757,125, out of $18,166,274 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 31 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.

What does Climate Justice Alliance fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Community Improvement (31%), Civil Rights (13%).

Who are Climate Justice Alliance's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Solutions Project Inc ($4.8M), Investing in Our Community ($4.0M), Creating Cohesion ($1.0M).

Does Climate Justice Alliance fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Climate Justice Alliance?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Movement Strategy Center.

Where is Climate Justice Alliance based?

Climate Justice Alliance is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

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. Cja unites our membership to build local, community controlled alternatives that center traditional, ecological, and cultural knowledge and create…

$18M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 33
Itemized grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $5.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $4,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 31; FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 21
Total assets, FY2025: $4.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Climate Justice Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$5.8M	47%
FY2024	21	$920k	33%
FY2023	31	$3.6M	48%
FY2022	21	$3.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Solutions Project Inc	$4,835,000	2	46%
Investing in Our Community	$4,000,000	1	n/a
Creating Cohesion	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy	$573,200	2	20%
Movement Generation	$282,750	4	4%
Uprose Inc	$216,750	3	7%
Urban Tilth	$200,750	4	1%
Micronesia Climate Change Alliance Inc	$159,655	4	13%
Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc	$144,060	4	2%
Kheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI	$141,110	4	3%

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All grantees of Climate Justice Alliance by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Solutions Project Inc	$4,835,000	2	46%
Investing in Our Community	$4,000,000	1	n/a
Creating Cohesion	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy	$573,200	2	20%
Movement Generation	$282,750	4	4%
Uprose Inc	$216,750	3	7%
Urban Tilth	$200,750	4	1%
Micronesia Climate Change Alliance Inc	$159,655	4	13%
Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc	$144,060	4	2%
Kheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI	$141,110	4	3%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$135,000	4	0%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$132,385	4	1%
Community Initiatives	$132,000	3	0%
4dasoil	$125,000	2	2%
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network	$123,060	3	3%
Centro Por la Justicia	$115,560	3	4%
Natures Garden for Victory and Peace Inc	$80,000	2	53%
The Working World Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Institute for Washingtons Future	$66,080	4	3%
Alabama Interfaith Power and Light Dba the People's Justice Council	$66,000	1	n/a
Center for Coalfield Justice	$60,000	1	1%
Kentucky Coalition Inc	$49,250	3	1%
Little Village Environmental Justice Org	$42,880	3	0%
The Smile Trust	$41,000	2	4%
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance	$40,000	1	3%
Soulardarity	$35,000	1	n/a
Community Housing & Empowerment Connection Inc	$35,000	3	5%
Farmworker Association of Florida Inc	$32,200	2	1%
East Michigan Environmental Action Council Inc	$32,000	2	5%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$28,000	1	n/a
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$28,000	1	1%
The New School	$26,600	1	0%
Opal	$25,660	1	6%
The Peoples Port Authority	$25,000	1	10%
Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project	$25,000	2	0%
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective	$21,600	1	2%
Numa'Lo Refillery Barrigada Guam	$20,040	1	n/a
Duk Duk Goose	$20,000	1	n/a
FANG Collective	$20,000	2	n/a
Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
DIG Cooperative	$20,000	1	n/a
Communities for a Better Environment	$16,500	1	0%
Center for Ideas Equity and Transformative Change	$15,950	1	n/a
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi	$15,750	1	n/a
Interfaith Peace-Builders	$15,250	1	3%
State Democracy Project	$15,000	1	0%
Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico	$15,000	1	n/a
Southwest Organizing Project	$14,000	1	1%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy	$14,000	1	0%
Oil & Gas Action Network	$10,000	1	1%
The Ruckus Society	$10,000	1	17%
Apoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Project South Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Warehouse Workers Justice Center Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Charitable Ventures of Orange County	$8,500	1	0%
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition	$8,000	1	n/a
Voices for a Sustainable Future	$8,000	1	n/a

Climate Justice Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 41.

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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.

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

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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About Climate Justice Alliance

How much does Climate Justice Alliance give?: Climate Justice Alliance reported 33 itemized grants totaling $5,757,125, out of $18,166,274 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 31 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Climate Justice Alliance fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Community Improvement (31%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Climate Justice Alliance's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Solutions Project Inc ($4.8M), Investing in Our Community ($4.0M), Creating Cohesion ($1.0M).
Does Climate Justice Alliance fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Climate Justice Alliance?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Movement Strategy Center.
Where is Climate Justice Alliance based?: Climate Justice Alliance is based in CA.