How much does Social Justice Fund Northwest give?

Social Justice Fund Northwest reported 79 itemized grants totaling $4,848,166, out of $5,195,916 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Social Justice Fund Northwest fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Community Improvement (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Social Justice Fund Northwest's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rvc Seattle ($2.9M), Chief Seattle Club ($1.3M), Allied Media Projects Inc ($937k).

Does Social Justice Fund Northwest fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Social Justice Fund Northwest?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inatai Foundation, Seeding Justice, The Satterberg Foundation Inc.

Where is Social Justice Fund Northwest based?

Social Justice Fund Northwest is based in WA.

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Social Justice Fund Northwest

Sjf is a member-funded foundation that supports the creation of a just society through fundraising, grantmaking, and member involvement. The foundation provides essential resources to organizations in washington, oregon, idaho, montana, and wyoming to strengthen grassroots efforts in the broad-based movement for progressive, systematic…

$5.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 79
Itemized grants FY2024: 47
Organizations funded FY2023: 34%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $4.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $45,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $654,000
Organizations funded a year: 44 to 70; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Social Justice Fund Northwest funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	75	$4.8M	48%
FY2023	47	$2.7M	34%
FY2022	51	$6.6M	41%
FY2021	44	$2.1M	48%
FY2020	59	$3.1M	41%
FY2019	70	$4.1M	71%
FY2017	47	$1.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$7.2MCommunity Improvement$3.2MArts & Culture$3.1MHuman Services$3.0MEnvironment$1.7MCrime & Legal$1.3MInternational$1.1MPhilanthropy$948kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rvc Seattle	$2,868,164	7	6%
Chief Seattle Club	$1,261,027	3	7%
Allied Media Projects Inc	$936,613	5	2%
Ethiopian Community in Seattle	$800,000	1	57%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$757,944	7	20%
Villa Comunitaria	$730,555	2	58%
Lavender Rights Project	$726,887	6	10%
Hilltop Urban Gardens	$582,561	7	55%
Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence	$535,969	6	7%
Northwest Film Forum	$484,731	5	14%

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All grantees of Social Justice Fund Northwest by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rvc Seattle	$2,868,164	7	6%
Chief Seattle Club	$1,261,027	3	7%
Allied Media Projects Inc	$936,613	5	2%
Ethiopian Community in Seattle	$800,000	1	57%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$757,944	7	20%
Villa Comunitaria	$730,555	2	58%
Lavender Rights Project	$726,887	6	10%
Hilltop Urban Gardens	$582,561	7	55%
Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence	$535,969	6	7%
Northwest Film Forum	$484,731	5	14%
Montana Racial Equity Project	$466,702	6	53%
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa	$413,431	5	13%
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo	$403,143	7	6%
Tubman Center for Health & Freedom	$350,600	4	7%
Angels For Angels	$350,000	1	30%
Spectrum	$320,000	3	11%
Village of Hope	$307,180	3	48%
Rural Peoples Voice	$300,000	2	18%
Potlatch Fund	$300,000	5	11%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$275,555	2	2%
Imagine Black	$273,902	2	n/a
Nomenus Inc	$270,000	2	n/a
Center for Intercultural Organizing	$265,369	2	5%
Momentum Alliance	$252,347	4	45%
Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun	$250,000	1	17%
Black Farmers Collective	$216,000	3	17%
North Idaho Pride Alliance	$215,000	3	61%
Got Green	$206,643	8	9%
Rural Organizing Project	$201,672	8	3%
Abundance of Hope Center	$201,115	1	n/a
Harriet Tubman Foundation for Safe Passage	$200,555	1	22%
Montana Two Spirit Society	$193,000	1	52%
Mano A Mano	$188,291	4	7%
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG	$185,622	4	8%
Voz Workers Rights Education Project	$181,162	5	23%
STEM Paths Innovation Network	$166,000	3	14%
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc	$165,000	3	n/a
Puget Sound Sage	$155,500	8	2%
Interim Community Development Association	$150,555	1	2%
Solidaire Network Inc	$140,000	2	0%
Equity in Education Coalition	$133,000	2	2%
Climate Justice Initiative	$132,282	1	n/a
Shunpike	$132,282	2	4%
Seattle Housing and Resource Effort	$130,000	8	1%
Beyond These Walls	$120,000	2	25%
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center	$120,000	2	41%
Ingersoll Gender Center	$110,000	2	11%
Center for Third World Organizing	$110,000	4	1%
Black Oregon Land Trust	$105,600	2	11%
Minority Hemp Builders Association	$100,000	1	n/a
Look2justice	$100,000	1	17%
New Progressive Network	$100,000	1	15%
Pan African Center For Empowerment Inc	$100,000	1	15%
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice	$100,000	1	2%
Tanta Inc	$100,000	1	18%
Indigenous Just Transition	$100,000	1	67%
Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle	$100,000	1	35%
Black Prisoners' Caucus Community Group	$100,000	1	n/a
Gender Justice League	$97,500	2	17%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	$97,000	5	0%
Thousand Currents	$92,500	4	0%
Opal	$87,972	3	4%
Social Venture Partners	$86,666	2	13%
Families of Color Seattle	$86,000	2	5%
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment	$85,142	3	30%
Institute for Washingtons Future	$81,520	4	23%
New Georgia Project Inc	$80,000	4	0%
Indigenous Creatives Collective	$80,000	1	8%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$80,000	4	0%
Gathering Roots Wellness Dba Sacred Land Collective	$80,000	2	8%
Mother Africa	$76,545	1	7%
Centro de Servicios Para Campesinos	$73,869	4	n/a
Sex Workers Outreach Project	$73,776	1	13%
Tacoma Urban League	$69,811	3	6%
Native Youth Leadership Alliance	$64,649	3	16%
Tenants Union of Washington	$63,747	3	6%
Freedom Project	$60,000	2	1%
Catalyst Montana	$58,869	3	3%
The Noble Foundation	$56,680	3	n/a
Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program Inc	$55,600	1	10%
Stonewall Youth	$54,791	2	n/a
Empower Mt	$53,176	3	5%
Lgbtq Community Center Fund	$51,863	3	5%
Western Native Voice Education Project	$50,751	2	1%
Verde Inc	$50,458	2	1%
Sanarte	$50,000	1	9%
Seattle Parks Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Portland Harbor Community Coalition	$50,000	1	10%
350 Seattle	$50,000	1	2%
The Ruckus Society	$50,000	1	1%
Lake City Collective	$50,000	1	10%
WASAT Community	$50,000	1	10%
Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Not Our Native Daughters	$50,000	1	n/a
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways	$50,000	1	5%
Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County	$50,000	1	12%
Seattle Young People's Project	$49,602	1	n/a
Chaplains on the Harbor	$48,954	2	2%
National Black Child Development Institute Inc	$47,804	2	n/a
Center Pole	$45,369	2	2%
Blue Sky Minds	$45,000	1	27%
South End Ultimate Program DBA Age Up	$45,000	4	30%
Wyoming Interfaith Network	$44,944	2	n/a
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc	$43,320	3	1%
Movement Strategy Center	$42,500	2	0%
Open Arms Perinatal Services	$42,381	2	1%
Skipping Stones	$42,271	1	n/a
Indian Peoples Action	$40,013	2	28%
Native American Reentry Services	$40,000	1	4%
Resource Generation Inc	$39,000	3	1%
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found	$38,000	4	0%
Self Enhancement Inc	$37,047	1	0%
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network	$35,000	2	1%
Progreso - Latino Progress Alliance	$33,217	1	n/a
Apano	$32,446	1	n/a
Duwamish Tribal Services Dba Duwamish Tribal Services Inc	$32,317	4	2%
Api Chaya	$32,311	2	1%
Unidos Bridging Community	$30,778	1	11%
Womenfirst Transition Referral Center	$30,778	1	10%
Alliance for a Just Society	$30,778	2	0%
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization	$30,000	1	4%
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education	$30,000	1	3%
Unkitawa	$30,000	1	1%
People of Color Against AIDS Network	$30,000	1	2%
Indigenous Roots & Reparation Fnd	$30,000	1	12%
Familias Unidas Por la Justica	$30,000	1	n/a
Native Wellness Institute	$30,000	4	n/a
Two Powers Land Collective Incorporated	$30,000	1	n/a
Common Good Missoula Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Ebony Collective CDC	$30,000	1	n/a
Know Agenda Foundation	$30,000	1	4%
Peoples Institute For Survival and Beyond	$30,000	2	2%
Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality	$30,000	1	8%
Front and Centered	$30,000	3	1%
Grassroots International Inc	$30,000	4	0%
Washington Progress Fund	$30,000	1	1%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$30,000	2	0%
Columbia River Institute for Indigenous	$30,000	1	27%
School's Out Washington	$30,000	1	0%
The UPRISE Collective	$30,000	1	8%
First Congressional United Church of Christ	$30,000	1	n/a
Room One	$30,000	1	2%
Red Lodge Transition Services	$29,944	2	n/a
Communities United for People	$26,402	1	2%
Diocese of Olympia Inc	$26,198	1	n/a
The Language Conservancy Inc	$25,322	2	0%
Langston	$25,000	1	3%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$24,800	1	0%
Pcun	$24,622	2	n/a
Standing Against Foreclosure and Evictions	$23,902	1	18%
Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation	$23,698	2	8%
Right 2 Survive Inc	$23,698	1	33%
Southeast Effective Development	$23,595	2	n/a
Capaces Leadership Institute	$23,595	2	n/a
Western States Center	$22,000	2	0%
Spokane Tribal Network	$20,000	1	2%
Utopia Pdx United Territories of Pacific Islanders	$20,000	1	2%
Washington Community Alliance	$20,000	1	1%
GLBT Bar Association of Washington Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
Pridefest Pride Fest	$20,000	1	4%
Rogue Action Center	$20,000	1	3%
Jubilee House Community	$20,000	2	1%
Culture for Change Foundation	$20,000	1	40%
Indigenous Cannabis Coalition	$20,000	1	n/a
Side Project Inc	$20,000	1	11%
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga	$20,000	1	2%
Quaker Voluntary Service Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Educate Ya Inc	$20,000	1	5%
Rios to Rivers	$20,000	1	2%
The Washington Bus Education Fund	$20,000	1	1%
Northwest Forest Worker Center	$19,622	1	7%
Confederated Tribes of the Lower Rogue	$19,622	1	n/a
Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane	$19,581	2	13%
Puentes	$19,581	1	n/a
Portland Jobs With Justice Education Fund	$19,581	1	7%
Cardea Center for Health and Human Services	$19,581	2	n/a
Idaho Community Action Network Inc	$19,581	2	n/a
Jackson Hole United	$18,176	1	n/a
Washington Community Action Network	$18,176	1	1%
Washington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund	$18,000	2	1%
Whiteswan Environmental We	$15,369	1	n/a
The Community for the Advancement of Family Education	$15,369	1	n/a
Heartspark Press	$15,369	1	n/a
Legacy Philanthropy Works	$15,000	1	1%
Eastern Shoshone Cultural Center	$15,000	1	n/a
The People's Fund	$15,000	1	3%
Shelterjh	$15,000	1	14%
Causa of Oregon	$15,000	2	1%
La Casa Hogar	$15,000	1	1%
Adelante Mujeres	$15,000	1	0%
Missoula AIDS Funds Inc Dba Open Aid Alliance	$15,000	1	1%
Crow Language Consortium Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Association of Manufactured Home Owners Amho	$12,865	1	n/a
Southerners on New Ground Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Urbanist	$10,000	1	4%
Native American Youth and Family Center	$10,000	1	0%
Fcnl Education Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Khimstonik	$10,000	1	6%
Guantanamo Survivors Fund Inc	$10,000	1	20%
Sustainable Seattle	$10,000	1	1%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Galeo Latino Community Develop Fund Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Coach Seattle Inc	$8,875	1	n/a
Salish School of Spokane	$8,500	2	1%
Arts Corps	$7,700	1	0%
Low Income Housing Institute	$7,700	1	0%
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest	$7,500	1	6%
Church Council of Greater Seattle	$7,500	1	n/a
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project	$7,000	1	4%
Northwest Abortion Access Fund	$6,000	1	1%
Realize Impact	$5,000	1	3%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($185k), not named here.

Social Justice Fund Northwest supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 170 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 170.

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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.

Inatai FoundationWA116.3× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Pride Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Meyer Memorial Trust · Proteus Fund Inc · The Bullitt Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · United Way of King County

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 Social Justice Fund Northwest

How much does Social Justice Fund Northwest give?: Social Justice Fund Northwest reported 79 itemized grants totaling $4,848,166, out of $5,195,916 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Social Justice Fund Northwest fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (28%), Community Improvement (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Social Justice Fund Northwest's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rvc Seattle ($2.9M), Chief Seattle Club ($1.3M), Allied Media Projects Inc ($937k).
Does Social Justice Fund Northwest fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Social Justice Fund Northwest?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inatai Foundation, Seeding Justice, The Satterberg Foundation Inc.
Where is Social Justice Fund Northwest based?: Social Justice Fund Northwest is based in WA.