California · Nonprofit
SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES
SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,524,203 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($5,300,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Social Justice Partners Los Angeles does
Mission
We support the creation of systems of care for the wellbeing and liberation for those working towards more justice in los angeles. We advance racial and social justice by providing grants, training, peer learning, and healing spaces that address root causes of systemic injustice while centering community wisdom and lived experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Racial equity in homelessness initiative: our racial equity in homelessness initiative supports leaders with lived experience to rise to executive positions, facilitating equity-focused training for organizational leaders, and offering comprehensive wellbeing supports to workers in the homeless response sector. Our fellowships have seen remarkable career advancement, with participants moving into director-level positions at organizations like united way of greater la, the people concern, safe place for youth, and la county departments. All five participants from the first hilton foundation fellowship cohort successfully transitioned to full-time public sector roles. Our five-week community care and the workplace program, offered four times in 2024 with 85 participants, addresses disconnection, burnout, and unprocessed grief among workers. The program has reached over 200 participants since inception. The wellbeing series, offered 10 times in 2024 with 310 attendees (207 working directly in homeless services), provides monthly workshops introducing diverse healing modalities. These sessions encourage personal rest, renewal, and connection, equipping workers with practical tools to…
$1,112,922 spentof which $430,000 as grants66% of program spendingSystems change fellowship: the systems change fellowship at sjpla supports leaders with lived experience of systemic injustices in areas such as cultivating workplace culture, communications, and growing their community of supporters. In 2024, we supported seven emerging initiatives addressing interconnected issues from health equity to food security, with each receiving $10,000 in unrestricted funding. The fast pitch program delivered ten weeks of intensive training and coaching, culminating in an in-person showcase where participants shared their work with community members, funders, and supporters. Fellows reported significant fundraising success, with la forward institute securing $100,000 in commitments and the social impact center raising $125,000 directly attributed to the program and sjpla network. The fellowship creates intentional spaces for relationship-building, resulting in meaningful collaborations between fellows, including joint programming, resource sharing, and community partnerships. Since the program began in 2008, alumni have raised over $4.7 million that they attribute to their experience, and the program has been replicated by 19 other organizations in the…
$293,060 spentof which $74,375 as grants$45,796 earned by the program17% of program spendingCommunity building and engagement: sjpla's community building & engagement initiatives create a robust network of informed changemakers through experiences including participatory grantmaking, anti-racism trainings, and our fast pitch program. In 2024, our 86 partners contributed 603 hours of skilled volunteer time and $85,020 in unrestricted funding, serving as coaches, evaluators, and community connectors. Our partnership with la2050 engaged 75 evaluators (including 26 sjp partners) who reviewed 577 applications and helped distribute over $3 million to 68 local organizations across los angeles county. Our liberatory learning courses engaged 52 participants across three programs: liberatory workplaces (27 participants), liberatory leadership (19 participants), and charity to justice (6 executive directors). Our philanthropic consulting services help craft equitable grantmaking practices, ensuring broad and sustained community impact. Through customized partnerships with organizations like sobrato philanthropies and goldhirsh foundation, we support organizational culture change that centers wellbeing, liberation, and belonging.
$272,082 spent$162,568 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,678,064.
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 $3.4M to $5.4M (+60%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Christine Margiotta
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $115k → $3.7M.
12 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 PARTNERS LOS ANGELES’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 PARTNERS LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 PARTNERS LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 24% · 2019 28% · 2020 64% · 2021 80% · 2022 49% · 2023 49% — 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
50% of SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
97% of SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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 PARTNERS LOS ANGELES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES?
- SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,524,203 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($5,300,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $15,524,203 in grants to SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES?
- CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $5,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES 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.
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 29 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