California · Nonprofit
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,546 to it, the largest being GIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Social Justice Collaborative does
Mission
Social Justice Collaborative is californias leading provider of compassionate full scope deportation defense legal services to low income non-citizens in northern and central california. We boldly provide post-convition relief to individuals
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sjcs removal defense initiative is one of the few full scope removal defense programs in the nation. It provides removal defense legal services for all low income non-citizens in the bay area and central valley who have some form of viable relief available. The program utilizes staff attorneys to screen elkigible candidates, both in immigration detention and out for potential relief, bond opportunities, defenses to deportation, and then provides high quality full scope defense form start to finish. Staff attorneys at sjc have sole responsibility to manage removal case loads, attend immigration hearings and work directly with clients and thier families. Paralegals and legal assitants are cgared with working directly with attorneys and clients to workup cases. Sjcs removal defense program also values compassionate representation which seeks to include wrap around service referrals, clinic provisions of benefit, and regular referral to mental health providors for evaluation and ongoing therapy. In 2019, sjc provided legal assitance to over 1,200 individuals and represented 600 families at no cost in their immigration matters while closing over 200 legal cases to successful completion.
$3,364,919 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,364,919.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $2.8M (+62%).
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: 2017 20% · 2018 28% · 2019 46% · 2020 58% · 2021 73% · 2022 66% · 2023 73% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Gautam Jagannath
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $47k → $181k.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE’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
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE 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
53% 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 SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 41% · 2019 29% · 2020 64% · 2021 46% · 2022 60% · 2023 55% — 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
38% of SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
60% of SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE: 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 SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE?
- SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,546 to it, the largest being GIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,619,546 in grants to SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE?
- GIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing