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Justice Outside

We work to promote racial justice within the outdoor and environmental movement. Our systems change approach includes grantmaking, anti-racism training, career pathway development, and capacity building.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
151
Itemized grants FY2025
98
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$3.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$52,500
Organizations funded a year
23 to 110
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
19
Total assets, FY2025
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Justice Outside funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving146$3.2M17%
FY202498$2.1M53%
FY202358$2.3M41%
FY2022110$4.2M66%
FY202180$1.9M55%
FY202054$1.2M44%
FY201923$445k39%
FY201832$768k78%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$3.4MYouth Development$2.2MArts & Culture$953kRecreation & Sports$900kHuman Services$878kCommunity Improvement$771kFood & Nutrition$707kEducation$638kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$222,50060%
Camp Phoenix$185,000713%
Brothers on the Rise$170,000639%
Girlventures$165,000410%
Earth Island Institute Inc$165,00060%
Community Initiatives$163,00030%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$161,00051%
Native Roots Farm Foundation$160,000460%
Coastal Defense Educators$160,0005n/a
Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project$157,50056%
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All grantees of Justice Outside by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$222,50060%
Camp Phoenix$185,000713%
Brothers on the Rise$170,000639%
Girlventures$165,000410%
Earth Island Institute Inc$165,00060%
Community Initiatives$163,00030%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$161,00051%
Native Roots Farm Foundation$160,000460%
Coastal Defense Educators$160,0005n/a
Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project$157,50056%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia$153,60032%
Elso Inc$137,50053%
YES Nature to Neighborhoods$136,20049%
Families and Youth Inc$126,00050%
Waterside Workshops$124,50054%
Amah Mutsun Land Trust$120,00034%
Southwest Organizing Project$120,00052%
Catalyst Initiative$116,000273%
Seattle Parks Foundation$112,50041%
Environmental Volunteers Inc$108,25053%
Watsonville Wetlands Watch$103,000311%
Media Island International$102,000520%
Alliance for Community Transformations$101,25041%
Borderlands Restoration Network$100,00051%
Disabled Hikers$100,000422%
Soul River Inc$100,000418%
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG$100,00042%
Wa-Ya Outdoor Institute$100,000424%
Im Hooked Inc$100,000428%
Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice$100,000352%
Trips for Kids Marin$100,00035%
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps$100,00051%
Inner City Bliss$100,000331%
The Trust for Public Land$100,00010%
The Aspen Institute Inc$100,00050%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$100,00041%
One World Bridge$100,000411%
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project$100,00046%
Bronze Chapter$100,0004n/a
Literacy for Environmental Justice$92,500211%
Feather River Land Trust$91,25031%
Sierra Foothill Conservancy$91,25031%
Sierra Institute for Community & Environment$91,25031%
Sea Potential LLC$90,0003n/a
Project Avary Inc Alternative Ventures for at Risk Youth$89,50042%
Atabey Outdoors$84,000516%
Wilderness Youth Project Inc$83,00051%
Ayco$80,00031%
Oshun Swim School$80,0003n/a
Wild Diversity$80,00035%
Superior Arts Institute$80,000314%
Auguste Research Group LLC$80,0003n/a
Hike Heal Wellness$80,0003n/a
Iglesias Gardens Co$80,000322%
New Hope Lutheran Church$80,0003n/a
Neighborhood Land Power Project$80,00034%
Federation of Neighborhood Centers$80,00031%
Indian Country Grassroots Support$80,00039%
Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro$80,00036%
Center for Social Sustainable Systems$80,000337%
4youth Productions Inc$80,000340%
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living$80,00036%
In Color Birding Club$80,000339%
Abundant Beginnings Inc$80,0003n/a
Life Center Association$80,000310%
Urban Affairs Coalition$80,00030%
Growing Gardens$80,00032%
Reel Guppy Outdoors Inc$80,000350%
Lutris Health and Environment$80,0003n/a
Infinite Learning and Resource Cent$75,0002n/a
Sonoma Ecology Center$75,00020%
Hunters of Color$75,00046%
Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative$75,000390%
Philadelphia City Repair Project$70,0003n/a
VASA Educational Services$70,000250%
Puentes$70,0002n/a
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance$70,00034%
Native Alliance of the Sierra Nevada Foothills$70,000111%
Planting Justice$69,50031%
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice Dba Curyj$69,50041%
Lichen Health$69,5003n/a
Young Legacies Inc$67,500345%
University of Oregon$67,5003n/a
Community Movement Builders Inc$65,00031%
Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps$64,50035%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$64,50030%
Peacemakers Inc$62,000316%
New Alpha Community Development Corporation$60,00024%
Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem$60,00022%
Vibe Tribe Adventures$60,000315%
Brown Girls Climb Inc$60,00027%
Toxic Free North Carolina Inc$60,00027%
California Council of Land Trusts$60,00036%
Humanitarian Social Innovations$60,00025%
Winners Institute for Successful Empowerment Wise Inc$60,0002n/a
Indigenous Justice$60,00023%
Naturally Wild LLC$60,0002n/a
Set in Stone Sustainability Farm$60,0002n/a
SEEDS Community Agriculture$60,0002n/a
Latinos Aventureros Corporation$60,0002n/a
Charity Navigator$60,00021%
Canopy$60,00032%
GullahGeechee Legacy LLC$60,0002n/a
North Oakland Community Charter School$60,00031%
Black Surf Santa Cruz$60,0002n/a
New River Catawba$60,0002n/a
Rooted In Color$60,0002n/a
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management$60,00020%
Play Marin$60,00028%
Rios to Rivers$60,00024%
Seven Tepees Youth Program$59,50033%
New Creation Home Ministries$55,000214%
Educator Collective For Envionmental Justice Inc$55,0002n/a
Intersectional Environmentalist$55,00028%
Land Together Dba Insight Garden Program$55,00031%
Coalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom$55,00036%
Pie Ranch$55,00031%
Southern Arizona Gender Alliance Inc$54,000215%
Ugr3day Underground Railroad Experiences Inc$50,0002n/a
Young Masterminds Initiative Inc$50,00026%
The Black Neighborhood$50,000218%
Sogorea Te Land Trust$50,00010%
Baztec Fishing & Outdoors$50,000294%
Wicahpi Koyaka Tiospaye$50,000176%
Chicago Adventure Therapy Nfp$50,00025%
FoodWhat Incorporated$50,00033%
Young Veterans Inc$50,000224%
Kasama Farm$50,0003n/a
Nella Semaj Foundation$50,0002n/a
School District of Bayfield$50,0002n/a
Swag Succeeding While Achieving Greatness$50,0002n/a
Raizes Collective$50,000112%
Lachiwana$50,000132%
Climate Resilient Communities$50,0001n/a
Radical Monarchs$50,0001n/a
Color the Outdoors Corp$50,0001n/a
Urban Tilth$50,00010%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$50,0002n/a
Life Frames Inc$50,000217%
Latinos United for a New America$50,00014%
Sankofa Roots$50,000169%
Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation$45,00023%
Puyallup Tribal Health Authority$45,0001n/a
Puyallup Tribe of Indians$45,0002n/a
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park$45,00023%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$45,00020%
Delaware Bat Rehabilitation and Conservation Inc$45,0002n/a
The Bus for Outdoor Access and Teaching$45,00028%
Oakland Leaf Foundation$43,00021%
Adventure Risk Challenge$42,10024%
Round Valley Indian Health Center Inc$40,50020%
New Sun Rising$40,00011%
Seeds of Liberation Inc$40,0001n/a
Blow Foundation$40,000226%
The Footprint LLC Dba Footprints in the Garden$40,0002n/a
United Lenape Communities$40,0003n/a
Nanticoke Indian Assocation Inc$40,00023%
Nokomis Learning Center$40,000122%
Chicago Muslims Green Team$40,000146%
Outdoor Inclusion Coalition$40,00029%
Sanctuary Wholistic Art Inc$40,000212%
Alexis Wiley$40,0002n/a
Camp Kaleidoscope$40,00026%
Waccamaw Indian People$40,000211%
Outdoor Afro$40,00011%
Tri-County Community Action Agency Tri-County Community Action Agency$40,00020%
Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc$40,00010%
Sama Sama Foundation Inc$40,0001n/a
Triangle Bikeworks Inc$40,000210%
Woodland Restoration Foundation$40,000132%
Philadelphia Gear Library$40,0002n/a
Vida Verde Nature Education$40,00021%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People$40,0002n/a
Rescue Mi Nature Now Inc$40,0001n/a
Marshview Community Organic Farm$40,00026%
Golden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc$40,00022%
Wildcoast$40,00021%
Eastern Woodland Lacross$40,00013%
Blackstar Projects Inc$40,00021%
Headlong Dance Theater Inc$40,0002n/a
INDIA Inspiring Nature and D$40,0001n/a
Extra Terrestrial Projects Inc$40,000152%
Escuela Xochitl Tonatiuh Inc$39,50021%
Center for Civic Policy$36,00021%
Environmental Traveling Companions$35,00022%
One Cool Earth$35,00026%
Pogo Park$35,00011%
Friends of the Dunes$34,00024%
Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice$30,00025%
Hampton Friends of the Arts inc$30,000215%
Earth Child Inc$30,0002n/a
Groundwork Richmond Inc$30,00022%
Justice Outside$30,00014%
Chicago Islamic Center Inc$25,0001n/a
Cihuapactli Collective$25,00012%
Un Mar de Colores$25,00017%
Color My Outdoors$25,000118%
Black Farmers Collective$25,00012%
Working Family Solidarity$25,0001n/a
Outdoors Empowered Network$25,0001n/a
Treobytes Inc$25,00012%
N8ive Xpressions park poetic$25,0001n/a
Movement Strategy Center$25,00010%
Cultural Burn Association$25,0001n/a
Livable City$25,00012%
Black Girl Blue World$25,0001n/a
Elevated Legacy Inc$25,0002n/a
Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks$25,0001n/a
La Plazita Institute$25,00011%
Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living$25,00016%
Global Garden Refugee Training Farm$25,0001n/a
Plants People Community$25,0001n/a
Community Nature Connection$25,00013%
Central Coast Salmon Enhancement Inc$25,00013%
Black Star Polo$25,0001n/a
Ecologic$25,0001n/a
Center for Land-Based Learning$23,00011%
Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn$22,50010%
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center$22,50013%
The Children Are Our Future$22,5001n/a
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco$22,50011%
7 Directions of Service Inc$20,0001n/a
Weaving Earth Inc$20,00012%
Diverseafy$20,000139%
Art and Wilderness Institute Community Inc$20,0001n/a
Earth Equity$20,000116%
Centro Comunitario Hispano- Americano Inc$20,00016%
The Latina Center$20,0001n/a
Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association$20,00010%
Afros in Nature$20,0001n/a
Northern Chumash Tribal Council$20,00011%
Unplug Collaborative$20,00013%
Spirits Up Corp$20,0001n/a
Hoods to Woods Inc$20,000210%
Black Image Center$20,000110%
Oklahoma Nonprofit Partners Foundation$20,000120%
Foundation for Independent Ar$20,0001n/a
Black Tech Link$20,000111%
Save California Salmon$20,00012%
Project Impact 180$20,000222%
Nature for All$20,00015%
Maqlaqs Paddle$20,000110%
Sierra Health Foundation$20,00010%
Ireta Purhepecha$20,0001n/a
Our Wilderness Now$17,5001n/a
Trail Mixed Collective$10,0001n/a
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$8,42520%
Trust for Hidden Villa$4,00010%

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Justice Outside supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 22 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 179 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $222,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Phoenix: $185,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetBrothers on the Rise: $170,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetGirlventures: $165,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $165,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Initiatives: $163,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSeventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc: $161,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNative Roots Farm Foundation: $160,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetActa Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project: $157,500 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCulturetrust Greater Philadelphia: $153,600 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetElso Inc: $137,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods: $136,200 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetFamilies and Youth Inc: $126,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWaterside Workshops: $124,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetAmah Mutsun Land Trust: $120,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSouthwest Organizing Project: $120,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCatalyst Initiative: $116,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetSeattle Parks Foundation: $112,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $108,250 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetWatsonville Wetlands Watch: $103,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMedia Island International: $102,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetAlliance for Community Transformations: $101,250 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBorderlands Restoration Network: $100,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDisabled Hikers: $100,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetSoul River Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $100,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWa-Ya Outdoor Institute: $100,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetIm Hooked Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetSarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice: $100,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetTrips for Kids Marin: $100,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Youth Corps: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetInner City Bliss: $100,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCenter of Southwest Culture Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetOne World Bridge: $100,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNuestra Tierra Conservation Project: $100,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetLiteracy for Environmental Justice: $92,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetFeather River Land Trust: $91,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSierra Foothill Conservancy: $91,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSierra Institute for Community & Environment: $91,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetProject Avary Inc Alternative Ventures for at Risk Youth: $89,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetAtabey Outdoors: $84,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $83,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAyco: $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWild Diversity: $80,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSuperior Arts Institute: $80,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetIglesias Gardens Co: $80,000 over 3y, 22% of budget

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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 179.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA44.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The Schmidt Family Foundation · National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · Clif Family Foundation · Parks California · Resources Legacy Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation

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 Justice Outside

How much does Justice Outside give?
Justice Outside reported 151 itemized grants totaling $3,263,400, out of $3,652,900 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 110 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Justice Outside fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Youth Development (16%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Justice Outside's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($223k), Camp Phoenix ($185k), Brothers on the Rise ($170k).
Does Justice Outside fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Justice Outside?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Schmidt Family Foundation, National Recreation Foundation Incorporated.
Where is Justice Outside based?
Justice Outside is based in CA.

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 294 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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