California · Nonprofit
SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE
SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,496,795 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($14,158,095). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Social Justice Learning Institute does
Mission
Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI) is a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to improving the education, health, and well-being of youth and communities of color. By empowering communities to enact social change through research training and community mobilization, SJLI works toward its vision of communities where individuals use their agency to improve each others lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Empowering Youth Through Education: SJLI uses education as a tool to empower youth of color to succeed as scholars, express themselves creatively and unlock their ability to transform their world. SJLI provides culturally relevant teaching, curriculum development and academic support through a social justice lens. SJLI provides tools and skills for youth to express themselves creatively and to take control of telling their own stories. SJLI creates pipelines for young men of color to pursue careers in the Allied Health and Medical fields. SJLI teaches youth to advocate for themselves and their communities. SJLI provides residents with knowledge to improve health outcomes for themselves and their community.
$4,967,141 spent74% of program spendingChanging Systems: SJLI builds capacity for community members to identify and rectify injustice and to advocate for their needs at the city, county and state level. SJLI builds youth leaders and supports them in efforts to address issues impacting their communities. SJLI convenes a group of local community advocates to identify solutions for environmental and health disparities in Inglewood. SJLI anchors a coalition of residents, businesses, community and faith organizations advocating for housing justice for Inglewood. SJLI privileges the voice of community members, who inform and lead SJLIs research and advocacy efforts.
$920,515 spent14% of program spendingCreating Thriving Communities: SJLI works to transform neighborhood conditions by improving access to affordable, healthy food and empowering residents with knowledge to create the changes that they want to see in their communities. SJLI grows and distributes high-quality produce in areas that lack access to affordable, healthy food. SJLI introduced and continues to manage the first farmers market in the city of Inglewood. SJLI teaches residents the importance of nutrition, education, and physical activity. SJLI also distributes free produce to community members with its food for Thought produce pick distribution.
$699,361 spent10% of program spendingSocial Justice Institute of Learning acts as a fiscal sponsor for "Fem the Future" whose mission is to build a fem-forward future through creating opportunities for young women and girls in music, arts, and education.
$125,533 spent2% of program spendingSocial Justice Learning Institute (SJLI) is a California not-for-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to improving the education, health, and well-being of youth and communities of color. By empowering communities to enact social change through research training and community mobilization, SJLI works toward its vision of communities where individuals use their agency to improve each others lives.
SPECIAL PROJECTS:College Persistence and Alumni Programming To house that enhanced intentional programming for our alumni, the Special Projects Program Area was created with a team to support the SJLI alumni as they navigate years 18-25. SJLI began planning for more effective and impactful efforts to support Urban Scholars alumni on their journeys in college and the workforce by connecting them to resources related to academic success, tuition, and housing. During 2020-21, SJLI developed a staffing plan dedicated to college & career persistence and alumni supportive services that would roll out in the 2021-22 fiscal year. One of the Special Projects programs, Higher Pathways, ensures that our alumni successfully reach young adulthood. SJLI has been able to facilitate workshops and retreats focused on achieving educational, career and economic growth. SJLI has hosted monthly alumni meetings, created a book club, conducted life skills sessions (financial literacy, leasing vs owning, cooking demonstrations, etc.) and counseling sessions to help each young person develop a personal success action plan. SJLI collaborates with corporations and small businesses to host career panels,…
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,712,550.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $5.1M (+170%).
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 18% · 2018 19% · 2019 26% · 2020 12% · 2021 12% · 2022 6% · 2023 8% · 2024 19% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Omai Garner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $5.4M.
16 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 LEARNING INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 LEARNING INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 46% · 2019 70% · 2020 61% · 2021 53% · 2022 61% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
64% of SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE'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 $10.0M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M 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
SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE?
- SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,496,795 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($14,158,095). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $27,496,795 in grants to SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,158,095 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 88 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