California · Nonprofit
Causa Justa Just Cause
Causa Justa Just Cause (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,846,843 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($2,253,450). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $552k
What Causa Justa Just Cause does
Mission
Causa Justa::Just Cause builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. We build solidarity between working class communities of color through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement and direct action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
As of December 2024, CJJC began winding down their programmatic operations in preparation for dissolving the organization. Remaining support staff consisting of volunteer board members and some consultants worked to close accounts no longer needed and clear liabilities, as well as assessing which organizations will receive distributions of remaining cash assets.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Basebuilding: CJJC continued to provide updated resources and support for tenants via Know Your Rights trainings for tenants and via a hotline to counsel San Francisco tenants in their rights. Additionally, the immigrant community was outreached to and informed about their rights.
$3,341,224 spentof which $1,620,000 as grants96% of program spendingOther Program: CJJC organizes community members to share their stories and conduct outreach to other community members, encourages them to submit public comments and testimony, and participate in petitions and call-in campaigns.
$142,572 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,483,796.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $2.9M to $4.3M (+47%).
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: 2018 45% · 2019 28% · 2020 46% · 2021 37% · 2022 58% · 2023 33% · 2024 58% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Causa Justa Just Cause’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.3M.
17 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Causa Justa Just Cause’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
Causa Justa Just Cause leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 Causa Justa Just Cause.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 35% · 2019 28% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 41% · 2023 28% — 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
36% of Causa Justa Just Cause's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
52% of Causa Justa Just Cause's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.8M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M 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
Causa Justa Just Cause is better cushioned than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Causa Justa Just Cause
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Causa Justa Just Cause: 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 Causa Justa Just Cause?
- Causa Justa Just Cause (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,846,843 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($2,253,450). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Causa Justa Just Cause have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $7,846,843 in grants to Causa Justa Just Cause, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Causa Justa Just Cause?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,253,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Causa Justa Just Cause 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 46 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