California · Nonprofit
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,593,592 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($5,700,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Climate Justice Alliance does
Mission
Climate Justice Alliance (cja) is a growing member alliance of more than 85 urban and rural frontline communities, organizations, and supporting networks in the climate justice movement. Cja unites our membership to build local, community controlled alternatives that center traditional, ecological, and cultural knowledge and create pathways for a regenerative future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supported member organizing and exchange of just transition solutions, models, best practices, challenges, and lessons learned. Provided technical assistance and leadership-, capacity-, and skill-building among our members, our power communities, and just transition regions through collaborative trainings, trainings-oftrainers, and convenings to build common analyses and principles, and coordination of translocal actions and mobilizations on key campaigns.
$14,660,661 spentof which $11,792,940 as grants60% of program spendingGeneral communications both internally but also externally. Launched the unite-ej thriving communities grant maker project after being selected by the epa for a $50,000,000 / 3 year grant aimed at moving pulic monies to front-line, grassroots environmental justice non-profits whose communities bear the brunt of climate change and the increased frequencies of severe weather events caused by climate change.
$4,990,538 spentof which $3,206,667 as grants20% of program spendingProvided policy technical support, landscape analysis, tools, and resources, such as research, reports, and popular education curricula to our member organizations
$4,704,874 spentof which $3,166,667 as grants19% of program spendingLaunched communicating our power project to support growth of communications capacity to tell the story of just transisiton at 20 member and affiliated organizations.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,356,073.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $22M to $4.1M (−81%).
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.
93% of CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE’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. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Katherine Chavez
Executive director (as of nov 2024)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 58 funders, grant income rose $20k → $8.2M.
22 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
37% 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 CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 68% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE'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
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 58 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLIMATE 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLIMATE 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 CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE?
- CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,593,592 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($5,700,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $38,593,592 in grants to CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 100 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