California · Nonprofit
California Environmental Justice Alliance
California Environmental Justice Alliance (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,823,146 to it, the largest being Environmental Health Coalition ($4,106,321). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What California Environmental Justice Alliance does
Mission
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty gas-fired power plants, and drill sites next to our homes and schools. We organize against oil and gas lobbyists who have bought off politicians and rewrote our states climate policies to pad their profits, in order to bring environmental justice to our communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Energy Justice Project: Seeks to ensure California transitions equitably from dirty fossil fuels to 100% clean, renewable energy by mobilizing residents in low-income communities of color to advocate for the expansion of renewable energy access and small-scale clean energy generation in their commumities. CEJAs Regenerate California campaign is part of this project, with our partner the Sierra Club. This campaign seeks to shut down all gas-fired power plants in California and replacing them with community-beneficial clean energy and other projects. CEJAs SOMAH (Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing) program is another component that seeks to ensure equitable access to rooftop solar, energy bill savings and paid job training opportunities in th solar industry.
$2,092,712 spentof which $465,000 as grants56% of program spendingLand Use Project: Green Zones are areas that have experienced historic disinvestment and neglect - most often low-income communities and communities of color. - where residents have been organizing for decades to reduce industrial pollution and implement solutions that address the unhealthy (and often discriminatory) land use patterns that have shaped how our communities look today. Green Zones uses place-based strategies to transform areas overburdened by pollution into healthy, thriving neighborhoods through comprehensive, community-led, solution-oriented, and collaborative approaches.
$846,161 spentof which $335,000 as grants23% of program spendingCivic Engagement Project: Seeks to engage voters of color in environmental justice communities to support just polices that protect community health and well-being. Our goal is to enhance the capacity of residents to conduct civic engagement activities to strengthen the EJ voter bloc across California. This is achieved by supporting the creation and implementation of targeted civic engagement outreach and related educational programs and materials with our grassroots membership.
$661,027 spent18% of program spendingClimate Justice Project: Seeks to advance statewide climate policies that protect and benefit EJ communities and meet fossil fuel phase-out goals while most effectively fighting climate change. Our goals are to strengthen collaboration with local partners to improve Cap-and-trade policies, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and related pollutants, and block dirty hydrogen infrastructure. Sustainable transportation and building meaningful partnerships with labor groups to align on Just Transition priorities are also areas of work under this project.
$135,846 spentof which $33,332 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,735,746.
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
Lovisa Stannow
Executive Director
Board chair
Antonio Diaz
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $450k → $3.9M.
4 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 California Environmental Justice Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
California Environmental Justice Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 California Environmental Justice Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 21% — 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
25% of California Environmental Justice Alliance's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 53% 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
81% of California Environmental Justice Alliance's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
California Environmental Justice Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like California Environmental Justice Alliance
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Environmental Justice Alliance: 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 California Environmental Justice Alliance?
- California Environmental Justice Alliance (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,823,146 to it, the largest being Environmental Health Coalition ($4,106,321). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Environmental Justice Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $13,823,146 in grants to California Environmental Justice Alliance, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Environmental Justice Alliance?
- Environmental Health Coalition is the largest funder on record, with $4,106,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Environmental Justice Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 32 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing