California · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,383,875 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($4,906,180). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability does
Mission
Mobilize community voice, advocate for sound policy, and eradicate injustice to promote equal access to opporunity regardless of wealth,race, income, and place.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (lcja) is a public charity that works alongside the most impacted communities to advocate for sound policy and eradicate injustice to secure equal access to opportunity regardless of wealth, race, income, and place. Lcja works with community leaders throughout the san joaquin valley and eastern coachella valley on such issues as safe affordable drinking water, basic transit services, wastewater services, decent affordable housing, and the right to live free from industrial pollution with infrastructure that supports healthy lifestyles. Through co-powerment, organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, and research, lcja confronts california's stark inequalities manifest in too many of california's low-income communities and communities of color.
$3,752,713 spentof which $215,000 as grants$758,323 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,752,713.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $11M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 13% · 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY’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. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $594k → $4.8M.
20 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
55% 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 LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 64% · 2019 21% · 2020 29% · 2021 16% · 2022 16% · 2023 13% — 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
46% of LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
81% of LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$3.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: 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 LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY?
- LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,383,875 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($4,906,180). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $30,383,875 in grants to LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $4,906,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 84 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