New York · Public charity
Clooney Foundation for Justice
The Clooney Foundation for Justice wages justice by providing free legal aid in defense of free speech and womens rights in over 40 countries. CFJs work has led to dozens of journalists being set free and thousands of women receiving free legal support to defend their rights.
- $618k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $555k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $555,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $555,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Clooney Foundation for Justice funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $555k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $885k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $834k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $4.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $2,250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thesentryorg Inc | $2,150,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education | $725,308 | 1 | 1% |
| Fund for Global Human Rights Inc | $555,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Yazda | $8,723 | 1 | n/a |
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.
Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Clooney Foundation for Justice
- How much does Clooney Foundation for Justice give?
- Clooney Foundation for Justice reported 1 itemized grants totaling $555,000, out of $618,156 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Clooney Foundation for Justice fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (65%), Civil Rights (23%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are Clooney Foundation for Justice's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United States Fund for Unicef ($2.3M), Thesentryorg Inc ($2.1M), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Clooney Foundation for Justice fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clooney Foundation for Justice?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Network for Good, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Clooney Foundation for Justice based?
- Clooney Foundation for Justice is based in NY.
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