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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $5,757,125, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,166,274 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,409,149 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE$28,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$28,000
NC CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE$21,600
NUMA'LO REFILLERY BARRIGADA GUAM$20,040
KENTUCKY COALITION$20,000
LITTLE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
84%

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
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.

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
5
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
6
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
7
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
8
Sowing Justice

The mission of Sowing Justice is to utilize Environmental Justice principles to increase civic engagement with organizing tools and resources for healthy and safe communities. We connect communities with resources and tools that empower…

Environment
9
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
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
Taproot Earth

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

Environment
12
Electoral Collective Action

Electoral Collective Action 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $14,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY: $14,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 Climate Justice Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Climate Justice Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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.

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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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