How much does Earthjustice give?

Earthjustice reported 9 itemized grants totaling $5,755,000, out of $6,182,778 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Earthjustice fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (70%), Philanthropy (25%), Crime & Legal (4%).

Who are Earthjustice's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Earthjustice Action ($4.9M), Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($3.0M), The Partnership Project Inc ($1.2M).

Does Earthjustice fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Earthjustice?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, Patagoniaorg, Sierra Club.

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California · Public charity

Earthjustice

EARTHJUSTICE is a premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 14%
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: $150,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $3,900,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 11; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $316M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Earthjustice funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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	8	$4.8M	0%
FY2024	7	$995k	14%
FY2023	11	$2.0M	27%
FY2022	7	$1.3M	14%
FY2021	9	$1.2M	33%
FY2020	9	$1.0M	56%
FY2019	5	$310k	80%
FY2018	4	$112k	50%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$11MPhilanthropy$4.0MCrime & Legal$610kInternational$100kCivil Rights$29kArts & Culture$15kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$10k

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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Earthjustice Action	$4,900,000	7	61%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$2,970,000	6	1%
The Partnership Project Inc	$1,244,500	6	1%
Asociacion Interamericana Para la Defensa del Ambiente	$860,000	6	9%
Center for Earth Energy and Democracy	$400,000	3	15%
Coming Clean Inc	$290,000	6	6%
Harambee House Inc	$185,000	4	9%
Alaska Wilderness League	$150,000	4	1%
Greenfaith Inc	$120,000	2	3%
Grassroots International Inc	$100,000	2	1%

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All grantees of Earthjustice by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Earthjustice Action	$4,900,000	7	61%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$2,970,000	6	1%
The Partnership Project Inc	$1,244,500	6	1%
Asociacion Interamericana Para la Defensa del Ambiente	$860,000	6	9%
Center for Earth Energy and Democracy	$400,000	3	15%
Coming Clean Inc	$290,000	6	6%
Harambee House Inc	$185,000	4	9%
Alaska Wilderness League	$150,000	4	1%
Greenfaith Inc	$120,000	2	3%
Grassroots International Inc	$100,000	2	1%
GreenLatinos	$87,500	2	4%
Sierra Club Foundation	$80,000	2	0%
Occidental College	$65,000	1	0%
Iala	$57,000	2	n/a
Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund	$50,000	2	5%
National Black Caucus of State Legislators	$50,000	1	2%
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance	$50,000	1	n/a
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Green 20	$40,000	1	3%
Mountain Journal Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
El Puente de Williamsburg Inc	$30,000	1	1%
South Yuba River Citizens League	$15,000	1	1%
Institute of Intellectual Property & Social Justice	$15,000	1	1%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$12,900	2	0%
Climate Generation	$12,600	1	1%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$10,650	1	0%
National Parks Traveler	$10,000	1	7%
The Environmental Media Associationinc	$10,000	1	1%
Society of Environmental Journalists Inc	$10,000	1	1%
National Young Farmers Coalition Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Alliance for Justice	$7,500	1	0%
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc	$6,000	1	0%

Earthjustice supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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 29.

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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.

Natural Resources Defense Council IncNY32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Patagoniaorg · Sierra Club · United States Energy Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Partnership Project Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · The Wilderness Society · New Venture 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.

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About Earthjustice

How much does Earthjustice give?: Earthjustice reported 9 itemized grants totaling $5,755,000, out of $6,182,778 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Earthjustice fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (70%), Philanthropy (25%), Crime & Legal (4%).
Who are Earthjustice's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Earthjustice Action ($4.9M), Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($3.0M), The Partnership Project Inc ($1.2M).
Does Earthjustice fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Earthjustice?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, Patagoniaorg, Sierra Club.
Where is Earthjustice based?: Earthjustice is based in CA.