Virginia · Nonprofit
JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS
JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,375,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Justice Catalyst Partnerships does
Mission
To promote valuable public interest legal work that seeks to improve the lives of those most often denied access to justice and to achieve systemic change within the legal system and profession.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Administered a project-based fellowship program supporting public interest projects at legal and law-related organizations that use novel legal approaches to achieve broad-scale and sustainable impact for marginalized or under-resourced communities. From hundreds of applications approximately 30 projects at public interest organizations were selected. Grantmaking and philanthropic advising to support public interest work on issues such as civil rights, workers' rights, access to justice, and public health. Convenings of justice-focused litigators and experts to develop strategies for justice.
$2,586,640 spentof which $1,735,782 as grants$371,577 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,586,640.
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 2020 to 2021, from $151k to $1.9M (+1189%).
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.
84% of JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jacob Lipton Esq
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $2.3M → $450k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS’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
JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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
100% of JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS: 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 JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS?
- JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,375,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $6,375,000 in grants to JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUSTICE CATALYST PARTNERSHIPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 4 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