Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Sojourners Inc
Sojourners Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,102,783 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,578,070). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Sojourners Inc does
Mission
The mission of Sojourners is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Messaging & Media: Sojourners (www.sojo.net) broadens the public dialogue in the United States regarding the intersection of faith, public life and culture. Sojourners articulates a strong moral and religious imperative behind more just and responsible policies. This is done through both national media and our own media platforms (Sojourners magazine, social media, and our digital platforms), and through speaking tours and interviews of Sojourners' President Adam Taylor and other staff. Our digital publication is among the most read Christian social justice publications. More than 1.5 million people from across the world visited Sojourners' website in the last year. We offer analysis, news and commentary on current issues and events, and we produce a number of additional electronic and print resources for pastors and faith leaders.
$1,398,428 spent$17,100 earned by the program31% of program spendingMobilization/Organizing Policy: For more than 50 years, Sojourners has been a connecting point for people of faith in this country and globally. Sojourners is challenging racism, xenophobia, sexism, and other efforts to divide us. In FY25, our key issues included countering polarization in churches and communities, resourcing churches to ensure children in the critical 0-3 stage of development can thrive, protecting institutions of democracy, supporting peace and solutions to global conflicts, addressing poverty and inequalities including health inequalities, preventing climate change, among other concerns.
$1,357,790 spent30% of program spendingSojourners magazine: Sojourners magazine addresses issues of faith, politics, and culture from a biblical perspective. Sojourners magazine reaches 50,000 readers every month - educating, inspiring, and mobilizing readers to put their faith in action for social justice.
$1,356,331 spent$477,929 earned by the program30% of program spendingEducation Resources: Sojourners provides educational resources through our website. All resources are mission-related. We create and distribute faith-based educational materials about poverty, the environment, racial justice, war and peace, and a range of other issues. Resources are available on our website (www.sojo.net).
$411,529 spent$78,526 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,524,078.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.9M to $6.5M (−18%).
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.2M.
26 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Sojourners Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
Sojourners Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
27% 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 Sojourners Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 30% · 2019 26% · 2020 14% · 2021 26% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% — 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
39% of Sojourners Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Sojourners Inc draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Organizations like Sojourners Inc
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 53 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sojourners Inc: 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 Sojourners Inc?
- Sojourners Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,102,783 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,578,070). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sojourners Inc have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $21,102,783 in grants to Sojourners Inc, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sojourners Inc?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,578,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sojourners Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 90 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