California · Nonprofit
Californians For Justice Education Fund
Californians For Justice Education Fund (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,182,810 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($9,826,921). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Californians For Justice Education Fund does
Mission
Californians for Justice is a statewide grassroots organization working for racial justice by building the power of youth, communities of color, immigrants, low-income families, and LGBTQ communities. Led by students, we organize to advance educational justice and improve our social, economic, and political conditions. Through year-round leadership development opportunities and intensive leadership programs, we empower the young people most affected by inequity to drive the process of change with their participation and ideas for a just society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Schools Summit (work with STAC)In June 2023, CFJ formed part of the planning and host committee of the first ever Community Schools Summit held in California. Through our Capacity Building Team, CFJ forms part of the State Transformational Assistance Center (STAC) which is meant to accelerate efforts across the state to reimagine community schools in ways that are aligned with the California Community Schools Partnership Program Framework (CCSPP). Over 1000 CA education leaders attended the single day event from all different regions and districts. Our Capacity Building Team made sure to center youth voices by creating a Youth Advocacy Board with students from across all of our regions that participated in planning. Additionally, we had some staff and youth organizers who created and facilitated workshops during the day. The highlight of the event was our Youth and Parent Panel which closed out the event with six of our youth leaders and two parents from the community.
$7,148,288 spentof which $1,109,698 as grants$1,643,540 earned by the program100% of program spendingFall Base Building DriveIn September we launched our Fall Base Building Drive across our four regions (San Jose, Oakland, Fresno, Long Beach), a special occurrence for 2023 since we have not had the opportunity to do this in-person since 2020. Lasting until October, our youth leaders and organizing teams reached over 1k youth across the state! Our students led:48 Classroom Presentations: key building tactics that leverage our Power of Relationships Strategy by partnering with adult allies (educators and administrators) at our school chapter sites.16 Tabling Events: events that leverage our Power of Moral Authority by having members share their personal stories to recruit new members
Base Building and Leadership Development Our Working To Amplify Youth Voices (WAVY) Program was the first program of the 2023/2024 academic year (December 2023) with over 59 students joining in total for Fresno, Oakland, San Jose, and Long Beach. Of those that attended, 33% stated that they joined because an active CFJ intern or organizer invited them, giving a real time perspective of the impact of our youth leadership. As this is the first event/retreat for the school year, it is an indicator of what the school year will look like. Of all statewide participants, over 93% claimed that the likelihood of them continuing to be involved in CFJs programming was Very High.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,148,288.
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 $12M to $16M (+32%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Californians For Justice Education Fund’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $6.6M.
14 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Californians For Justice Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
Californians For Justice Education Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
26% 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 Californians For Justice Education Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 19% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of Californians For Justice Education Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
80% of Californians For Justice Education Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Californians For Justice Education Fund holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Californians For Justice Education Fund
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Californians For Justice Education Fund: 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 Californians For Justice Education Fund?
- Californians For Justice Education Fund (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,182,810 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($9,826,921). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Californians For Justice Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $36,182,810 in grants to Californians For Justice Education Fund, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Californians For Justice Education Fund?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $9,826,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Californians For Justice Education Fund 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 63 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