Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
EARTHJUSTICE ACTION
EARTHJUSTICE ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,237,900 to it, the largest being ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC ($430,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Earthjustice Action does
Mission
Promotion of social welfare, including but not limited to protecting people's health, preserving magnificent places and wildlife, advancing clean energy, combating climate change and maintaining the public's access to courts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education and engagement activities (e.g., digital advocacy and phone banking campaigns) to urge constituents to contact their representatives on key judicial nominations and environmental legislation, and to elevate the role of judges and the courts as an environmental issue.
$4,819,071 spentof which $130,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,819,071.
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 $2.7M to $5.1M (+87%).
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.
100% of EARTHJUSTICE ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
George Martin
Board chair & director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $164k → $395k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Earthjustice). These are real filings, and they are not money EARTHJUSTICE ACTION raised.
From the IRS filings of EARTHJUSTICE ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
EARTHJUSTICE ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 EARTHJUSTICE ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 69% · 2022 79% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
EARTHJUSTICE ACTION draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
EARTHJUSTICE ACTION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EARTHJUSTICE ACTION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Earthjustice · exempt
- Eja Political Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARTHJUSTICE ACTION: 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 EARTHJUSTICE ACTION?
- EARTHJUSTICE ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,237,900 to it, the largest being ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC ($430,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARTHJUSTICE ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,237,900 in grants to EARTHJUSTICE ACTION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARTHJUSTICE ACTION?
- ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARTHJUSTICE ACTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 9 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