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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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$654k
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, 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
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 79 grants below total $4,848,166, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,195,916 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $347,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $861k
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $3.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $654k
$45,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RVC$654,000
NOMENUS INC$150,000
LAVENDER RIGHTS PROJECT$150,000
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$150,000
INDIGENOUS IDAHO ALLIANCE$130,000
MONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY$120,000
BLACK AGRICULTURE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL$100,000
TANTE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
NORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE$100,000
BLACK PRISONERS' CAUCUS COMMUNITY GROUP$100,000
SPECTRUM CENTER$100,000
NEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK DBA NEXT UP ACTION FUND$100,000
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS$100,000
BEYOND THESE WALLS$100,000
TACOMA SEED$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EMPOWERMT: $20k → 9%THE CENTER POLE: $30k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $31k → 10%STONEWALL YOUTH: $20k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $100k → 9%SPECTRUM CENTER: $100k → 12%LA CASA HOGAR: $15k → 17%ROOM ONE: $30k → 17%CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $18k → 18%CENTER POLE: $15k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%ADELANTE MUJERES: $15k → 8%STONEWALL YOUTH: $15k → 9%EMPOWERMT: $20k → 9%STONEWALL YOUTH: $10k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $103k → 9%TANTE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 8%EMPOWERMT: $14k → 9%RIGHT TO SURVIVE: $24k → 12%TACOMA SEED: $100k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $100k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $100k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $30k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $30k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $20k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $30k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 9%EDUCATE YA: $20k → 12%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $23k → 9%THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF OLYMPIA: $31k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $20k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $20k → 9%PROGRESO - LATINO PROGRESS: $20k → 9%PROGRESO - LATINO PROGRESS: $14k → 9%WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $25k → 9%VILLAGE OF HOPE: $250k → 9%VILLAGE OF HOPE: $31k → 9%UTOPIA SEATTLE: $250k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $77k → 9%UTOPIA SEATTLE: $75k → 9%UTOPIA SEATTLE: $50k → 9%UTOPIA SEATTLE: $20k → 9%UTOPIA SEATTLE: $18k → 9%ABUNDANCE OF HOPE CENTER: $201k → 9%VILLAGE OF HOPE: $26k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $800k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $451k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $10k → 9%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
ID
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
TN
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
GA
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 82 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
97

Total granted

$18M
$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+16%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RVC SEATTLE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +459%
  • CS
    CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB
    3× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +883%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $937k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • EC
    Ethiopian Community in Seattlegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $800k · revenue +77% · 57% of their budget
  • AF
    Angels For Angelsgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue +87% · 30% of their budget
  • AP
    ACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +21%
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
3
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
4
Queer Power Alliance

Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…

Human Services
5
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
6
Iaf Northwest

In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Civil Survival Project

Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation and reentry support, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system in Washington State.

Community Improvement
9
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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10
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
11
Rural Peoples Platform

The Rural Peoples Platform organizes people across rural North Central Washington around local initiatives and a long-term agenda that makes economic stability possible and sustainable for all working people and families.

Community Improvement
12
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeding Justice; the most unlike its peers is Right 2 Survive Inc. 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

211 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. 211 of the 226 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
73
Early backer (in before they grew)
203/211
Grantees still filing
126/211
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $1,261,027 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUBHilltop Urban Gardens: $582,561 · Human ServicesHilltop Urban Gard…UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $413,431 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORIES…Spectrum: $320,000 · Human ServicesSpectrumVILLAGE OF HOPE: $307,180 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF HOPEAbundance of Hope Center: $201,115 · Human Services+22 more: $988,942 · Human Services+22 moreRVC SEATTLE: $2,868,164 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLEAngels For Angels: $350,000 · Community ImprovementAngels For AngelsINTERIM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $150,555 · Community Improvement+11 more: $547,845 · Community Improvement+11 moreVILLA COMUNITARIA: $730,555 · OtherVILLA COMUNITARIAIDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $535,969 · OtherIDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND…NOMENUS INC: $270,000 · OtherTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM: $350,600 · Other+94 more: $5,767,514 · Other+94 moreALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $936,613 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PR…Ethiopian Community in Seattle: $800,000 · Arts & CultureEthiopian Commu…NORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $484,731 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM …POTLATCH FUND: $300,000 · Arts & CulturePOTLATCH FUNDACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN: $250,000 · Arts & CultureACCION POLITICA…SHUNPIKE: $132,282 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $589,903 · Arts & Culture+11 moreMONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT: $466,702 · Civil RightsMONTANA RACIAL …COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $403,143 · Civil RightsCOLECTIVA LEGAL…Rural Peoples Voice: $300,000 · Civil RightsRural Peoples V…IMAGINE BLACK: $273,902 · Civil RightsIMAGINE BLACKCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $265,369 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR INTE…NORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE: $215,000 · Civil RightsNORTH IDAHO PRI…RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $201,672 · Civil RightsRURAL ORGANIZIN…MONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY: $193,000 · Civil RightsMONTANA TWO SPI…INDIGENOUS IDAHO ALLIANCE INC: $165,000 · Civil RightsBEYOND THESE WALLS: $120,000 · Civil Rights+16 more: $744,969 · Civil Rights+16 moreNa'ah Illahee Fund: $757,944 · InternationalAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $275,555 · InternationalWHATCOM PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER: $120,000 · InternationalCenter for Third World Organizing: $110,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $92,500 · International+1 more: $30,000 · InternationalLavender Rights Project: $726,887 · Crime & LegalLOOK2JUSTICE: $100,000 · Crime & LegalFREEDOM PROJECT: $60,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHEAST UPLIFT NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM INC: $55,600 · Crime & LegalFJC: $41,500 · Crime & LegalNATIVE AMERICAN REENTRY SERVICES: $40,000 · Crime & Legal+5 more: $136,731 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$4,074,256Community Improvement$3,916,564Other$7,654,638Arts & Culture$3,493,529Civil Rights$3,348,757International$1,385,999Crime & Legal$1,160,718

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetRVC SEATTLE: $2,868,164 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $1,261,027 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $936,613 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEthiopian Community in Seattle: $800,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $757,944 over 7y, 20% of budgetVILLA COMUNITARIA: $730,555 over 2y, 58% of budgetLavender Rights Project: $726,887 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetHilltop Urban Gardens: $582,561 over 7y, 55% of budgetIDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $535,969 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $484,731 over 5y, 14% of budgetMONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT: $466,702 over 6y, 53% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $413,431 over 5y, 13% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $403,143 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM: $350,600 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetAngels For Angels: $350,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSpectrum: $320,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE: $307,180 over 3y, 48% of budgetRural Peoples Voice: $300,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPOTLATCH FUND: $300,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $275,555 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $265,369 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $252,347 over 4y, 45% of budgetACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE: $216,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetNORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE: $215,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetGot Green: $206,643 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $201,672 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetHARRIET TUBMAN FOUNDATION FOR SAFE PASSAGE: $200,555 over 1y, 22% of budgetMONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY: $193,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetMano A Mano: $188,291 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $185,622 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetVOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT: $181,162 over 5y, 23% of budgetSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK: $166,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $155,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetINTERIM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $150,555 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION: $133,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $132,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHUNPIKE: $132,282 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSeattle Housing and Resource Effort: $130,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBEYOND THESE WALLS: $120,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetWHATCOM PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetIngersoll Gender Center: $110,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing: $110,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBLACK OREGON LAND TRUST: $105,600 over 2y, 11% of budgetLOOK2JUSTICE: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPan African Center For Empowerment Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 15% 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.

Inatai FoundationSeeding JusticeThe Satterberg Founda…The Pride FoundationSeattle FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestMeyer Memorial TrustProteus Fund IncThe Bullitt FoundationThe Collins FoundationNorthwest Health Foun…United Way of King Co…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Social Justice Fund Northwest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Social Justice Fund Northwest. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality: 77% of income from government
  • Educate Ya Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Rogue Action Center: 29% of income from government
  • Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
  • Capaces Leadership Institute: 20% of income from government
  • Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation: 18% of income from government
  • The Uprise Collective: 17% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Voz Workers Rights Education Project: 12% of income from government
  • Red Lodge Transition Services: 12% of income from government
  • Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Side Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
72report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 226 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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