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North Carolina Climate Justice Collective
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,753,328 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $877k
What North Carolina Climate Justice Collective does
Mission
movement ecosystem to address the root causes of climate change. Using popular education and cultural organizing, we ignite social transformation. We center all our work in the leadership of youth, Black, Indigenous and people of color, women, low wealth people, and LGBTQI+ people to create strategic alignment. We are bringing an end to fracked gas infrastructure, coal ash pollution, industrial agriculture and forest destruction while planting the seeds of a life-sustaining, regenerative society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Resiliency Hubs: NCCJC advanced climate justice organizing through its five regional Resiliency Organizing Hubs, which convened monthly in-person and statewide virtual sessions, as well as quarterly leadership retreats. Hub programming prioritized strategic alignment, healing justice practices, and nonviolent civil defense in response to intensifying political pressures on frontline communities. The organization launched its inaugural year-long Winning the World We Want Apprenticeship (W4A) program, through which 20 BIPOC emerging organizers completed training across three tracks: energy justice organizing, food justice organizing, and cooperative business development. NCCJC also facilitated national training partnerships with Yes!, Native Movement, Climate Justice Alliance, and the Southeast Climate and Energy Network (SCEN), sharing its Resiliency Organizing Hub model and 4Rs of Social Transformation framework. The organization co-organized and co-facilitated the 7th Healing Our Movement Ecosystem Jam, a week-long convening for 25 environmental and climate leaders from across the United States.
$316,906 spent56% of program spendingTap Root: NCCJC rooted its statewide power-building work in arts and cultural strategy. The organization organized its second TapRoot Arts Residency, welcoming 15 BIPOC artists ("artivists") into a year-long program that generates art to catalyze climate justice movement building. The residency launched with a five-day immersion at Lake Logan and produced original work marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene. NCCJC launched its inaugural 4Rs Indie Film Festival, selecting 7 winners from 25 submissions on the theme of just and regenerative futures; films were showcased through a virtual festival and public discussion. The organization anchored cultural strategy for the NC Environmental Justice People's Hearing: Speak Easy, Speak Free, where youth and elders performed the original multimedia show "Finding Our Balance, and Co-Director Connie Leeper facilitated the Mothers of the Environmental Justice Movement ceremony. NCCJC also organized The Art of Us a five-city cultural arts roadshow across Goldsboro, Durham, Fayetteville, Kinston, and Maxton in partnership with Resiliency Hub anchors and PowerUp NC, featuring more than 15 performers, 300 participants, and free…
$149,828 spent26% of program spendingConvenings: NCCJC convened its 7th annual NC Climate Justice Summit in Brown Summit, NC, gathering 250 youth and adults around the theme "Just Recovery for All." The Summit featured more than 30 workshops led by five intergenerational Resiliency Organizing Hub teams, Just Recovery strategy sessions with grassroots leaders from Puerto Rico, the Gulf South, the Mariana Islands, and California, and community-building programming including an open mic night and healing space. NCCJC also organized the inaugural Durham Solar Festival at Lyons Farm Elementary School in partnership with school administration, drawing more than 175 participants. Festival programming featured NCCJC's original interactive performance The Good Fire an allegory about clean energy alongside hands-on solar exhibits, youth competitions including a solar car race and solar oven bake-off, and arts engagement activities. These convenings advanced NCCJC's mission of building community-led pathways to a just energy transition and strengthened connective tissue between frontline communities in eastern and western North Carolina.
$93,025 spent16% of program spendingTrainings & Facilitations: NCCJC designs and leads customized, interactive, and culturally relevant training informed by the wisdom and experience of our communities. We work with municipalities, non-governmental groups, non-profits, grassroots groups, and statewide networks to embrace climate justice principles and catalyze just action in response to climate change.? Workshops We Offer Free to Community-Based Groups: Beyond Disaster Relief- Strategies for Just Recovery, Intro to Climate Justice & Climate Adaptation Planning, From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: Resilience Skills for Personal, Communal & Ecological Well-being, Igniting the Regenerative Economy
$7,920 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $567,679.
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 2022 to 2023, from $675k to $852k (+26%).
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: 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of North Carolina Climate Justice Collective’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. 2 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.
Board chair
Ayo Wilson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $75k → $526k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 North Carolina Climate Justice Collective’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
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
98% 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 North Carolina Climate Justice Collective.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 73% · 2023 42% — 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
69% of North Carolina Climate Justice Collective'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 $536k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like North Carolina Climate Justice Collective
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for North Carolina Climate Justice Collective: 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 North Carolina Climate Justice Collective?
- North Carolina Climate Justice Collective (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,753,328 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does North Carolina Climate Justice Collective have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,753,328 in grants to North Carolina Climate Justice Collective, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of North Carolina Climate Justice Collective?
- WINDWARD FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Carolina Climate Justice Collective find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 12 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