Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE
ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 171 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,346,708 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($6,190,000). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 171
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Alliance for Justice does
Mission
Alliance for Justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bolder advocacy - bolder advocacy (ba) promotes active engagement in the democratic process by providing nonprofits and foundations with the knowledge and confidence to advocate efficiently and effectively. For over 20 years, ba has offered a comprehensive program of thought-leadership, workshops, technical assistance, publications, and educational events to help nonprofits cost-effectively navigate the 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) rules and be more effective advocates for their communities. Through lobbying, regulatory efforts, and candidate education, ba strengthens the ability of thousands of nonprofit staff members and trustees to advocate confidently.
$2,921,821 spentof which $149,625 as grants$467,916 earned by the program68% of program spendingJustice selection: through the various initiative's under its judicial selection program (justice), afj works to ensure that the nation's courts are staffed with highly-qualified, fair, and independent judges who will safeguard the rights of all. Through the judicial nominations project afj works to research nominees to the federal bench, providing detailed information to congress, the media, and the public and educates the public about the importance and role of the federal courts. Our building the bench project promotes the identification of professionally and demographically diverse and highly-qualified individuals for federal judgeships. And afj's access to justice work protects and promotes the value of a vigorous civil justice system and monitors and exposes threats to the rule of law through rigorous research, comprehensive written reports and publications and information for the public.
$1,165,276 spentof which $223,192 as grants27% of program spendingCommunity engagement partnerships - afj's community engagement partnership program of over 120 civil rights and public interest organizations and leads strategies elevating the importance of the courts through public education and mobilization; engaging afj's national network of member organizations, progressive groups, legal communities, and political influencers; and expanding the reach of justice and bolder advocacy resources to arm partners, grassroots advocates, and diverse constituencies with the tools to advocate for a democracy that protects our constitutional rights.
$201,330 spentof which $7,551 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,288,427.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $16M to $23M (+44%).
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 11% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Paulette Meyer
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 57 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $6.5M.
27 of 171 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 171 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 JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 27% · 2019 19% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 8% · 2023 15% — 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
46% of ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 JUSTICE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 JUSTICE's funding base is broadening — from 57 funders to 66 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alliance for Justice Action Campaign (Afjac) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE?
- ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 171 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,346,708 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($6,190,000). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 171 organizations giving $40,346,708 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 171 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