Washington · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY
ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,289,838 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($4,000,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Alliance for a Just Society does
Mission
To support community organizing efforts that promote the social welfare of poor and working families. It shall also provide financial support for activities that promote the social welfare and for other charitable and educational purposes as defined by 501c3 of the internal revenue code including fiscal sponsorship.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Alliance for a Just Society - the national campaign for transit justice continued outreach & education around the need for investment in transit infrastructure. This included a weekly meeting with 60 community-based organizations. We continued to educate the public about the importance of federal funding for transit operations. We worked with local, state, and national groups to identify shared policy goals that will improve transit, biking, and walking. These include: 1. Great transit service requires federal operating funds. 2. Communities should be transit-ready. Frequent transit requires roads to incorporate transit lanes, traffic signal priority, and safe access for all road users between transit stops and key destinations, among other features. Road design must prioritize safety over speed to protect transit riders and reduce roadway deaths and injuries. Any reauthorization needs to update roadway design standards to require transit-supportive elements, fund transit-supportive activities, and support updating planning and zoning codes. Small and rural communities deserve great transit. Remove barriers and improve the federal transit program to increase access to quality…
$932,595 spentof which $1,600 as grants$301,475 earned by the program17% of program spendingNative organizers alliance: noa advocates & supports grassroots-driven social change rooted in native traditional practices & values to advance sovereignty & the health & well-being of rural & urban native communities & reservations across indian country.in 2024, noa supported tribes and community groups in a number of campaigns to protect sacred places, including oak flat, grand canyon, bears ears, lower snake, thacker pass, missouri river, and yukon-kuskokwim delta. We supported efforts by tracking and analyzing legislation, providing comments to agencies, and amplifying the collective voices of affected communities through letter campaigns, petition drives, and educational initiatives on policy issues that affect indian country.in 2024, noa worked with a number of tribes across the country, including the standing rock sioux tribe in their ongoing battle against the dakota access pipeline.noa engages 43,837 followers on facebook, instagram, and linkedin as a way to garner support and disseminate information on current issues and campaign initiatives led by and for native people. Noa's email list includes 220,975 total subscribers (a 70% increase over 2022) who received…
$3,156,015 spentof which $655,682 as grants$154,086 earned by the program56% of program spendingEastside for all (efa) expanded its base-building within bipoc communities in east king county, including outreach, education, and mobilization for affordable housing in bellevue, redmond, and kirkland as well as supported statewide mobilization for rent stabilization in wa for the upcoming legislative session. We completed a major community engagement process with the city of redmond for their comprehensive plan update, and had an additional 250 participants for that effort, totaling over 950 people from bipoc and immigrant communities who provided input to cities from 2023-2024. We continued to do voter education and registration at multiple tabling events and we hosted two candidate forums for state representative elections. In our equitable development work, formalized our coalition with 10 other bipoc led organizations in visioning and planning to operate a community hub in redmond at an affordable housing development that will open in 2027. Overall, we increased our capacity for equitable development and affordable housing advocacy with the hiring of a new full-time staff person in october of 2024. To increase communications and connection with more community members, efa…
$483,130 spentof which $750 as grants$74,991 earned by the program9% of program spendingThere are seven organizing other program services, one of which is battle creek. In 2024, the battle creek coalition for truth, racial healing, and transformation (bctrht) deepened its impact through over 20 community events and initiatives, engaging more than 1,200 participants across battle creek. We hosted our eighth annual national day of racial healing, a powerful envisioning dinner attended by 150 community members, and led a youth summit with 70 students from five high schools exploring racial healing and mental health. Our six community envisioning sessions uplifted diverse voices to imagine a battle creek free from racism. We launched the battle creek did not burn oral history project, producing a documentary and archival interviews capturing local civil rights history. Our "building equity" housing justice series featured national authors, panel discussions, and book clubs with over 150 attendees. We also supported two legal rights workshops in partnership with the naacp and the michigan department of civil rights. Throughout the year, our programming wove together community visioning, healing practices, policy advocacy, and intergenerational dialogueall in service of a…
$1,048,528 spentof which $5,250 as grants$20,726 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,620,268.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.7M to $9.5M (+42%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2022 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Leeann Hall
Executive director
Board chair
Deana Knutsen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $183k → $4.1M.
37 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 24% · 2019 18% · 2020 36% · 2021 9% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Just Strategy · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY?
- ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,289,838 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($4,000,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $32,289,838 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 146 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing