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JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC

JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,483,225 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$4.8M
6/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Justice for Greenwood Foundation Inc does

Mission

To secure justice and reparations for the greenwood community and diaspora through direct services, public education and advocacy

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Advocacy. Federal accountability - u.s. Department of justice (doj). Building on years of groundwork, our national advocacy campaign urging the doj to open a formal investigation into the massacre under the emmett till cold case act achieved critical traction. Through persistent congressional engagement, coalition building with national partners, and strategic public campaigns, the doj conducted its first-ever federal review of the massacre. This milestone represents a breakthrough in federal recognition of the harm and a strong testament to the power of survivor- and descendant- centered advocacy combined with public education, broad-based organizing, and persistence in holding systems accountable. Reparations plan pledged by the city of tulsa. In consultation with the last two living survivors, legal experts, and community leaders, justice for greenwood (jfg) created a local reparations initiative called project greenwood. Project greenwood is a comprehensive 13-point plan that aims to confront and address the historical harm caused by the massacre. Shortly after tulsa elected its first black mayor, the jfg team met with the mayor and his staff to present and advocate for…

    $1,151,988 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,151,988.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($613k) Net assets 100 ($849k)2022 Revenue 372 ($5.4M) Expenses 118 ($724k) Net assets 649 ($5.5M)2023 Revenue 96 ($1.4M) Expenses 300 ($1.8M) Net assets 598 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 97 ($1.4M) Expenses 282 ($1.7M) Net assets 561 ($4.8M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (97)Expenses (282)Net assets (561)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $849k to $5.5M (+550%).

$849k
$5.5M
$5.1M
$4.8M
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$836k
’21
$4.7M
’22
−$449k
’23
−$325k
’24
24
months of
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.

2021202220232024
Listed6665
Joined·+1+0+0
No longer listed·101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $653k → $1.1M.

7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC’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 FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

57%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 77% · 2022 89% · 2023 43% — 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

JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 4 states in all.

WA
NY
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $402k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve24.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC

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 Oklahoma

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 30%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC: 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 FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC?
JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,483,225 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,483,225 in grants to JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC?
FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUSTICE FOR GREENWOOD FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 14 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