Illinois · Nonprofit
Neighbors for Environmental Justice
Neighbors for Environmental Justice (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($750,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $694k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $817k
What Neighbors for Environmental Justice does
Mission
The mission of Neighbors for Environmental Justice is to foster awareness, organize and promote community action on environmental justice to achieve environmental health and just transition by preventing and reducing pollution and building a green, healthy and sustainable community and environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Neighbors for Environmental Justice (N4EJ) made significant strides in promoting environmental justice across Chicago, particularly on the southwest side. Key accomplishments included the opening of N4EJs first office in McKinley Park, the launch of the Southwest Air Quality Index (SWAQI), and the release of the Paid to Pollute investigative report, highlighting how the City of Chicago fails to enforce environmental standards for contractors. The organization also held its first fundraiser, the Setting Roots Celebration, and hosted a series of Environmental Justice (EJ) Walking Tours and community events like the Neighbors in Nature series, engaging over 350 residents. N4EJ expanded its air quality monitoring network by purchasing 8 new PurpleAir sensors and partnered with local schools to integrate environmental justice topics into STEM education. N4EJ also worked to raise awareness and advocate for policy change through collaborations like the Chicago Coalition to End Sacrifice Zones and its partnership with the Metropolitan Planning Council to address zoning and pollution issues in McKinley Park. Additionally, N4EJs leadership in the Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA)…
$244,758 spentof which $200 as grants$15,426 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $244,758.
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 $487k to $837k (+72%).
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: 2021 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Neighbors for Environmental Justice’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $122k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 Neighbors for Environmental 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
Neighbors for Environmental Justice leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Neighbors for Environmental Justice.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 37% — 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
81% of Neighbors for Environmental Justice'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. Of the $211k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $920k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Neighbors for Environmental Justice runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Neighbors for Environmental 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Neighbors for Environmental 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 Neighbors for Environmental Justice?
- Neighbors for Environmental Justice (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($750,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Neighbors for Environmental Justice have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,130,000 in grants to Neighbors for Environmental Justice, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Neighbors for Environmental Justice?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Neighbors for Environmental Justice find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2024), 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