Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE
CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,463,061 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($2,320,650). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Center for Coalfield Justice does
Mission
Improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower, and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organizing program focuses on leadership development and issue awareness for impacted and concerned residents. Center for Coalfield Justice conducts direct outreach, hosts public events and trainings, and supports rapid response to problems that arise in their communities.
$1,332,128 spentof which $875,297 as grants44% of program spendingThe communications program focuses on shaping the regional narrative around environmental, economic, and democratic issues in their communities. Ccj works with residents to help them share their experiences, and they engage various media to help educate the public on current events.
$783,278 spent26% of program spendingThe advocacy program engages policy-based and legal tactics to promote systemic change and to increase residents' access to information and decision-making conversations. Ccj holds polluters and government accountable to existing statutes and regulations.
$899,022 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,014,428.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.6M to $6.1M (+71%).
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: 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
Board chair
Rick Heinze
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $10k → $2.0M.
19 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
70% 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 CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 61% · 2019 36% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% — 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 CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR COALFIELD 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Coalfield Justice Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COALFIELD 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 CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE?
- CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,463,061 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($2,320,650). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $11,463,061 in grants to CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,320,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 49 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