Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Jobs with Justice Education Fund
JWJEF is a national organization network Organization with 39 coalitions in 26 states across the country. We believe that all working people should have collective bargaining rights, labor and employment protections, employment security and a decent standard of living. In partnership with a diverse universe of partners and allies we are…
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $48,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $436,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Jobs with Justice Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $1.6M | 42% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $2.1M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $3.2M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.4M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $4.0M | 55% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $2.1M | 72% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $597k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $359k | 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs with Justice San Francisco | $1,510,186 | 6 | 38% |
| North Bay Jobs With Justice | $759,000 | 7 | 40% |
| United for Respect Education Fund | $715,000 | 3 | 7% |
| State Democracy Project | $616,954 | 1 | 3% |
| Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc | $591,280 | 8 | 40% |
| Central Florida Jobs With Justice Corp | $511,550 | 6 | 14% |
| Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice | $506,800 | 6 | 67% |
| Congressional Progressive Caucus Center | $500,000 | 1 | 21% |
| United for Respect | $478,000 | 1 | 27% |
| Pittsburgh United | $436,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 98 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Jobs with Justice Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Jobs with Justice · Working Families Organization Inc · United for Respect Education Fund · The Ford Foundation · Windward Fund · Solidago Foundation · New Venture Fund · Center for Popular Democracy Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
About Jobs with Justice Education Fund
- How much does Jobs with Justice Education Fund give?
- Jobs with Justice Education Fund reported 19 itemized grants totaling $1,609,010, out of $1,646,229 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Jobs with Justice Education Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (43%), Civil Rights (25%), Public Benefit (9%).
- Who are Jobs with Justice Education Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jobs with Justice San Francisco ($1.5M), North Bay Jobs With Justice ($759k), United for Respect Education Fund ($715k).
- Does Jobs with Justice Education Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jobs with Justice Education Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, Jobs with Justice.
- Where is Jobs with Justice Education Fund based?
- Jobs with Justice Education Fund is based in DC.
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