New York · Private foundation
Foundation for a Just Society
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $63M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 357
- Grants FY2024
- 248
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 208 to 248
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Foundation for a Just Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M 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 | 234 | $57M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 248 | $55M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 227 | $50M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 208 | $48M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 243 | $46M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital for Good USA | $4,000,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Borealis Philanthropy | $3,300,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Global Fund for Women Inc | $3,156,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues | $2,931,516 | 5 | 27% |
| New York Women's Foundation Inc | $2,583,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism | $2,369,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Groundswell Fund | $2,169,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Girl Determined | $2,164,800 | 5 | 65% |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | $2,056,250 | 5 | 2% |
| Panorama Global | $1,955,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 181 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 315 recipients with no EIN on record ($167M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foundation for a Just Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 171 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Novo Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Groundswell Fund · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · The Overbrook Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
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About Foundation for a Just Society
- How much does Foundation for a Just Society give?
- Foundation for a Just Society reported 357 grants totaling $63,123,280 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 208 and 248 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Foundation for a Just Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (25%), International (16%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Foundation for a Just Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Capital for Good USA ($4.0M), Borealis Philanthropy ($3.3M), Global Fund for Women Inc ($3.2M).
- Does Foundation for a Just Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foundation for a Just Society accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for a Just Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Foundation for a Just Society based?
- Foundation for a Just Society is based in NY.
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