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Right to the City Alliance

The organization is a national alliance of racial, economic, and environmental justice organizations that, through shared principles, are building a national movement for racial justice, urban justice, human rights, and democracy.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$255k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$5.1MCivil Rights$804kCommunity Improvement$730kCrime & Legal$549kReligion$500kHuman Services$465kPublic Benefit$240kEnvironment$220kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k29 grants · $733k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $255k
$30,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY LIFE VIDA URBANA$255,000
UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY$230,000
HOUSING RIGHT COMMITTEE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC$155,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC$150,000
TENANTS TOGETHER$125,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC$95,000
NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT INC$90,000
9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC$75,000
MIAMI WORKERS CENTER$75,000
JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE$75,000
ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY (ONE DC)$75,000
PODEMOS MOVEMENT AZ$75,000
CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE INC$75,000
JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE LEGAL CENTER$75,000
HOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE$75,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%YWCA OF LOWELL: $10k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $15k → 16%EARTHLODGE CENTER FOR: $15k → 14%THE CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $75k → 12%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $30k → 12%ASIAN AMERICAN ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $10k → 13%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $230k → 10%COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $86k → 23%CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $75k → 8%THE CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $71k → 12%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $100k → 10%CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $71k → 8%THE CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $70k → 12%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $100k → 10%CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $70k → 8%THE CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $70k → 12%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $100k → 10%CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY: $55k → 8%THE CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $70k → 12%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $100k → 10%CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY: $30k → 8%THE CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $30k → 12%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $30k → 10%CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY: $20k → 8%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $32k → 14%TRUE ALLIANCE CENTER INC: $15k → 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

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
KY
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 39 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
11

Total granted

$11M
$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+38%

Still filing today

97%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $613k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • SJ
    St Joseph's House of Hospitality
    6× · 2020–2025 · $741k · revenue +43% · 34% of their budget
  • UR
    URBAN REVIVAL INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $586k · revenue +51%
  • JP
    JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $481k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • NEO Philanthropy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +28%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +43%
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
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

Ebase advances economic, racial and social justice by building a just economy in the east bay on good jobs and healthy communities. we address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances amount community, faith…

Public Benefit
4
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
5
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
6
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
7
Inquilinos Unidos

Dedicated to empowering low-income tenants through community organizing, education and advocacy to fight for safe, decent, and affordable housing in los angeles.

Unclassified
8
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
9
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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10
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
11
Housing Rights Initiative

To help tenants stand up for their legal rights.

Housing & Shelter
12
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Justice Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Firecracker Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 70 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Joseph's House of Hospitality: $741,000 · OtherSt Joseph's House of HospitalityURBAN REVIVAL INC: $586,000 · OtherURBAN REVIVAL INCRIGHT TO THE CITY ACTION FUND: $530,000 · OtherRIGHT TO THE CITY ACTION FUNDTenants Union of Washington: $450,000 · OtherTenants Union of WashingtonIronbound Community Corporation: $271,000 · OtherIronbound Community CorporationCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $175,000 · OtherHousing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc: $225,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $315,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) …Miami Workers Center Inc: $285,000 · OtherMiami Workers Center Inc+17 more: $1,121,200 · Other+17 moreHOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE INC: $485,016 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE …JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $481,000 · Housing & ShelterJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD…ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY: $456,000 · Housing & ShelterORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD…INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $426,000 · Housing & ShelterINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR J…Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc: $221,000 · Housing & ShelterMet Council Research & …Causa Justa Just Cause: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterCausa Justa Just CauseCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $92,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $660,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FOR A NE…CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $386,000 · Human ServicesCHAINBREAKER CO…Canopy Young Adult Community House Inc: $320,900 · Human ServicesCanopy Young Ad…COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $111,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATION JAC…+9 more: $177,350 · Human Services+9 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $235,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTO…Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $231,000 · Community ImprovementStruggle fo…Urban Habitat Program: $210,000 · Community ImprovementUrban Habit…DARE DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementDARE DIRECT…North Bay Organizing Project: $140,000 · Community ImprovementNorth Bay O…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $131,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVE…NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ENGLAND…+1 more: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $301,000 · Civil RightsCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $251,000 · Civil RightsPODEMOS MOVEMENT: $205,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $75,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $70,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $31,000 · Civil RightsTenants Together: $446,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRO CULTURAL DE MEXICO EN EL CONDADO DE ORANGE: $205,000 · Arts & CultureCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureSplinter Art and Community Fund: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,699,200Housing & Shelter$2,416,016Human Services$1,655,250Community Improvement$1,217,000Civil Rights$933,000Food & Nutrition$446,000Arts & Culture$405,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Joseph's House of Hospitality: $741,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $660,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC: $586,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ACTION FUND: $530,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetHOUSING JUSTICE LEAGUE INC: $485,016 over 6y, 64% of budgetJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $481,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY: $456,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTenants Union of Washington: $450,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTenants Together: $446,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $426,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetCHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $386,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetCanopy Young Adult Community House Inc: $320,900 over 6y, 28% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $315,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $301,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMiami Workers Center Inc: $285,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $271,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $251,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $235,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $231,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetHousing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc: $225,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMet Council Research & Education Fund Inc: $221,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetUrban Habitat Program: $210,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetPODEMOS MOVEMENT: $205,000 over 3y, 91% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL DE MEXICO EN EL CONDADO DE ORANGE: $205,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $175,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $170,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause: $155,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $151,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDARE DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY INC: $150,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER: $148,700 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project: $140,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $131,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $111,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI: $110,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJustice for the People Legal Center: $75,000 over 1y, 10% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLACK LEADERSHIP ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $60,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $32,350 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBlack Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis: $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSplinter Art and Community Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Common Counsel Founda…Tides FoundationSolidaire Network IncWindward FundProteus Fund IncHealth in PartnershipImpactassetsincTides CenterMovement Strategy Cen…Social and Environmen…Policylink
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC49.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Solidaire Network Inc · Windward Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · Health in Partnership · Impactassetsinc · Tides Center · Movement Strategy Center · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Policylink

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 Right to the City Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Right to the City Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Community Alliance of Tenants: 100% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 70 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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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