Virginia · Nonprofit
Nature For Justice
Nature For Justice (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,545 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $645k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Nature For Justice does
Mission
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
USA: FARMER INCLUSION PROGRAM IN NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA: 2025 was a year of consolidation, expansion, and renewed momentum. After the loss of USDA funding, the program strengthened its foundations, deepened relationships with farmers, took deliberate steps toward long-term, farmer-centered impact across the Southeast, and successfully mobilized new private and philanthropic funding. This funding diversification was an important step toward a more resilient financial model. One of the most significant achievements was the geographic expansion from North Carolina into Virginia, supporting a growing network of Black farmers adopting regenerative agricultural practices. It was supported by Cargill and built on trusted partnerships and existing farmer networks. By the end of 2025, the program was supporting more than 210 Black farmers across the two states. 2025 was also a year of systems-building, with significant time and effort were dedicated to developing the foundations of a tech-enabled Revolving Loan Fund, designed to address lack of access to affordable, appropriate finance.
$1,135,899 spentof which $897,380 as grants57% of program spendingCANADA: FIRST 30X30 Indigenous-led conservation is essential to achieving national 30x30 biodiversity targets. While carbon markets have the potential to unlock long-term funding for Indigenous stewardship, early-stage financing remains scarce, preventing many First Nations from accessing these opportunities. In 2025, we advanced this mission: completed 3 pre-feasibility assessments (Market Opportunity Assessments, or MOAs) with Indigenous Nations, analyzing 600,000 acres of Indigenous territory; they represent the first step toward achieving approximately 16.7 million tonnes of sequestered and/or avoided CO2e emissions. First 30x30 has engaged 38 Nations across 6 provinces and territories. N4J secured a $10 million 5-year grant from the BHP Foundation towards year-end. $2 million was received in January 2026 and the remaining funds will be provided in the 3rd quarter or 2026. We have also received significant funding from RBC and expect additional funds in 2027.
$817,910 spent41% of program spendingAFRICA: NATURE-BASED SOLUTION PROJECTS: In 2025, we advanced our African NbS work laying strong foundations for long-term, community-centered impact across the region. We completed a detailed project plan and due diligence for a large-scale ecological restoration initiative covering approximately 38,550 acres in South Africa in partnership with ACT Group, Ecosystemiq and Apex Conservation Services. Its focus is restoring degraded thicket ecosystems dominated by Spekboom, a highly resilient indigenous succulent plant with exceptional ecological and climate protection value. Reflecting its strategic importance N4Js Board approved the establishment of a registered local entity Nature For Justice South Africa. During 2026, it will enable the growth of an in-country team, strengthening local partnerships, governance, and long-term delivery capacity. In Ethiopia, to advance regenerative agroforestry initiatives that place food security and farmer resilience at their core, we deepened our partnership with Alabaster International to co-develop an Enset-based mixed agroforestry programme. Enset - often referred to as the tree against hunger - is a drought-resilient staple crop central to…
$28,750 spent$24,867 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,982,559.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $2.1M to $11M (+428%).
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: 2023 21% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Nature For Justice’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Henry Arthur Cauley
CEO
Board chair
Kate Thompson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $260k → $127k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Nature For Justice’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
Nature For Justice has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
44% 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 Nature For Justice.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 77% · 2023 59% — 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
Nature For Justice draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Nature For Justice runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Nature For Justice receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Other Direct Grant Expense$250k
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 Nature For Justice
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Nature For Justice: 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 Nature For Justice?
- Nature For Justice (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,545 to it, the largest being WAL-MART FOUNDATION ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Nature For Justice have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $644,545 in grants to Nature For Justice, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nature For Justice?
- WAL-MART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nature For Justice 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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