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Earthjustice

EARTHJUSTICE is a premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$3.9M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$11MPhilanthropy$4.0MCrime & Legal$610kInternational$100kCivil Rights$29kArts & Culture$15kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $5,755,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,182,778 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $427,778 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $565k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.2M
$150,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$316M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARTHJUSTICE ACTION$3,900,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY$250,000
ASOCIACION INTERAMERICANA PARA LA DEFENSA DEL AMBIENTE (AIDA)$175,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC$150,000
THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC$125,000
GREENLATINOS$65,000
COMING CLEAN INC$50,000
HARAMBEE HOUSE INC$40,000
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 (FY20–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $55k → 16%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $50k → 16%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $40k → 16%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $40k → 16%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

VT
MT
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MD
DC
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 86% of Earthjustice’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 9%.

Earthjusticelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 15 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +131% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$12M
$432k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+25%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsEducationInternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EA
    EARTHJUSTICE ACTION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4.9M · revenue ×20 · 61% of their budget
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +156%
  • The Partnership Project Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +25%
  • NB
    National Black Caucus of State Legislatorsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +64%
  • NJ
    New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +433%
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
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
2
Environment Now
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3
International Council On Environmental Economics and Development Union
Human Services
4
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest

The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…

Environment
5
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
6
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters

New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…

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7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
9
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,…

Environment
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
12
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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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.
05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EARTHJUSTICE ACTION: $4,900,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE ACTIONSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $2,970,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCThe Partnership Project Inc: $1,244,500 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project IncCENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY: $400,000 · Environment+10 more: $851,050 · Environment+10 moreTIDES CENTER: $2,050,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERHarambee House Inc: $185,000 · Human ServicesHarambee House …TIDES FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATI…ASOCIACION INTERAMERICANA PARA LA DEFENSA DEL AMBIENTE: $860,000 · Crime & LegalIALA: $57,000 · OtherNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $50,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC: $40,000 · OtherEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $30,000 · OtherSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $15,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $50,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SOCIAL JUSTICE: $15,000 · OtherHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · Other+5 more: $43,500 · OtherGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 · InternationalOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationCLIMATE GENERATION: $12,600 · Education
Environment$10,365,550Human Services$2,235,000Philanthropy$2,000,000Crime & Legal$860,000Other$350,500International$100,000Education$77,600

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 budgetEARTHJUSTICE ACTION: $4,900,000 over 7y, 61% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $2,970,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $2,050,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $1,244,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetASOCIACION INTERAMERICANA PARA LA DEFENSA DEL AMBIENTE: $860,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetCENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY: $400,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCOMING CLEAN INC: $290,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetHarambee House Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $150,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGREENFAITH INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGreenLatinos: $87,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreen 20: $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SOCIAL JUSTICE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $12,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION: $12,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $10,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Parks Traveler: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ASSOCIATIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Natural Resources Def…PatagoniaorgSierra ClubUnited States Energy …Tides FoundationThe Partnership Proje…Rockefeller Family Fu…Resources Legacy FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundThe Wilderness SocietyNew Venture Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Earthjustice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earthjustice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%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
3get no government money at all
3report 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 34 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home