Who funds Equal Justice Initiative?
Montgomery, Alabama · EIN 63-1135091 · NTEE R63 · 501(c)(3)
456 private foundations paid Equal Justice Initiative 933 grants on IRS Form 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $47M in all.
All years on file, including returns before 2022.
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Foundations that funded it
The 200 largest by total, of 459 on file.
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Largest grants since 2022
Largest first. The purpose is what the foundation wrote on its return, for the tax year shown.
- Freedom Together Foundation · 2023 - Changing the narrative: racial justice reform in america$6,000,000
- Freedom Together Foundation · 2022 - Changing the narrative: racial justice reform in america$6,000,000
- Freedom Together Foundation · 2024 - Changing the narrative: racial justice reform in america$5,000,000
- Lilly Endowment Inc · 2025 - Religion & cultural inst initiative$2,500,000
- Wend II Inc · 2024 - To Support General Operations$2,000,000
- Champions of Love Foundation Inc · 2024 - General$2,000,000
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc · 2024 - General Support$2,000,000
- Champions of Love Foundation Inc · 2023 - General$2,000,000
- Foundation to Promote Open Society · 2023 - To provide general support$2,000,000
- The Klarman Family Foundation · 2024 - Unrestricted operating support$1,000,000
- Wend II Inc · 2023 - To support unrestricted support to the Equal Justice Initiative.$1,000,000
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc · 2023 - General Support$1,000,000
- The Klarman Family Foundation · 2023 - Healthy Democracy: Unrestricted operating support for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025$1,000,000
- Adobe Foundation · 2023 - General & Unrestricted$1,000,000
- John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · 2024 - In support of general operations$500,000
- Adobe Foundation · 2024 - General & Unrestricted$500,000
- Fulk Family Foundation Inc · 2023 - General operations to support EJI's work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment and racial equality$500,000
- Peach Charitable Foundation · 2023 - Support ongoing charitable work in the fields of equality and justice.$499,339
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2024 - Disrupting mindsets of deservingness and advancing narrative change that promotes agency and a collective vision for children and families$487,500
- Surdna Foundation Inc · 2023 - General Support$371,746
- The Hearthland Foundation · 2024 - Racial justice$250,000
- The Hearthland Foundation · 2023 - Racial justice$250,000
- The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation · 2023 - To support changing the narrative: public education initiatives$250,000
- Carson Family Charitable Trust · 2022 - General operating support$250,000
- Amazonsmile Foundation · 2023 - General support$231,859
Organizations the same foundations fund
Organizations paid by many of the same foundations since 2022, by how much their lists of funders overlap.
- Innocence Project IncNew York, NY · 69 shared funders
- Southern Poverty Law Center IncMontgomery, AL · 117 shared funders
- Sandy Hook Promise FoundationNewtown, CT · 57 shared funders
- Save the Children Federation IncFairfield, CT · 60 shared funders
- Natural Resources Defense Council IncNew York, NY · 75 shared funders
- Environmental Defense Fund IncorporatedNew York, NY · 67 shared funders
- International Rescue Committee IncNew York, NY · 88 shared funders
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation IncNew York, NY · 58 shared funders
By tax year of the funder's return
| Year | Grants | Foundations | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 140 | 131 | $3.7M |
| 2024 | 303 | 295 | $16.8M |
| 2023 | 430 | 356 | $19.7M |
| 2022 | 60 | 60 | $6.7M |
| 2021 | 10 | 9 | $56K |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | $1M |
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How this page is made
Each grant comes from a foundation's IRS Form 990-PF and was linked to this EIN only when this was the single organization in the IRS Business Master File with that name in that state. Grants written under a different spelling, or where several organizations share the name, are not counted here, so the real totals can be higher. Government grants and gifts from individuals do not appear on these returns.
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 63-1135091
- IRS Business Master File record updated Nov 9, 2026; listed in Publication 78 (eligible for deductible contributions)
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