Washington · Nonprofit
Just Strategy
Just Strategy (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,210,572 to it, the largest being ENERGY ACTION FUND ($325,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $993k
What Just Strategy does
Mission
Just Strategy builds powerful issue campaigns that win. We educate organizers and movement leaders. We help develop effective strategies for racial and economic justice movements. We create innovative organizing projects where we see a need. We also partner with established organizations to build people's power.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE ACTION FUND: Supports tribes and Native communities to advocate for grassroots-driven social change rooted in Native traditional practices & values to advance sovereignty & the health & well-being of rural & urban Native communities & reservations. NOA-AF is building campaign infrastructure, data collection, & voter participation to build the power of Native communities to connect local Native communities & tribal issues with state & national advocacy campaigns with non-Native allies. In 2024, NOA-AF advocated for the protection of sacred places & environmental protections with online advocacy conducted with tribal & traditional leaders to protect Pipestone National Monument from contamination by a proposed natural gas pipeline. NOA-AF gathered 25,000 letters directed to the MN Public Utilities Commission(PUC) calling for a cultural survey of the land in consultation with the tribes before permits are issued. The PUC reversed its decision to approve the permit. In 2024, NOA-AF hired a full-time employee to conduct the Organizing Fellows Program. The main goal of the Fellows program was to support urban and tribal communities in their voter mobilization…
$617,163 spentof which $148,500 as grants$2,361 earned by the program79% of program spendingJUST STRATEGY CAMPAIGNS: 1. Public transit is essential to communities, local economies, and the lives of millions of people across the country. Essential workers depend on and operate transit; businesses, both large and small depend on transit; historically marginalized communities depend on transit. Transit is a key component of a more environmentally sustainable society and is the road to equity for disenfranchised communities, both rural, urban, and suburban. Just Strategy worked with Rep. Johnsons to build 150 co-sponsors for the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act to establish a federal operations funding program. In addition, Just Strategy mobilized to support public transit by: -Collected 1,358 "What Transit Means to Me" stories collected for Sen.Fetterman -7,784 direct messages to U.S. House Representatives, building co-sponsors and support for the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act -13,397 direct messages to U.S. Senators and House Reps, building co-sponsors and support for the GREEN Streets Act -36,937 direct messages to the Governor of all 50 states calling for setting ambitious goals in the implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rule…
$167,147 spent$639 earned by the program21% of program spending.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $784,310.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $813k to $1.2M (+43%).
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.
98% of Just Strategy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
LeeAnn Hall
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $480k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of Just Strategy’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Just Strategy has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% 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 Just Strategy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
14% of Just Strategy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
Just Strategy draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 6 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
Just Strategy 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 Just Strategy
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alliance for a Just Society · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Just Strategy: 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 Just Strategy?
- Just Strategy (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,210,572 to it, the largest being ENERGY ACTION FUND ($325,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Just Strategy have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,210,572 in grants to Just Strategy, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Just Strategy?
- ENERGY ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Just Strategy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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