What is the foundation’s typical grant size?

Its grant size distribution is in the six-figure range: the 25th percentile is $96,250, the median is $133,956, and the 75th percentile is $228,115. The recent grant list also includes a $5,000,000 award at the high end.

Does Justice Catalyst Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Yes for some programs. The Justice Catalyst Fellowships and the Justice Catalyst Access Fund are marked as accepting unsolicited requests, while the 1890 Fund for Workers, Farmers, and Small Businesses, the Fund for Disability Rights partnership, and the Child Welfare Litigation Fund are not.

What geography does the foundation serve?

Its giving is national. The recipient country distribution in the recent grants is 100% U.S., and the recent grantees are spread across places including Charlottesville, New Orleans, Berkeley, Washington, DC, Helena, San Francisco, and Austin.

Does Justice Catalyst Inc fund the same organizations more than once?

Yes. Justice Catalyst Access Fund appears in multiple years and at multiple amounts, including $315,270 in 2023 and $167,913 in 2024. That indicates repeated support for the same litigation-finance platform rather than only one-time awards.

Justice Catalyst

Name: Justice Catalyst — grants, 990 financials & funding data
Creator: Kindora

ActivePublic CharityCivil Rights & AdvocacyMakes PRIs

NEW YORK, NYWebsite

About Justice Catalyst

Leverage the legal system to bring accountability to powerful actors and advance social, economic, and racial justice for marginalized communities through fellowships, grantmaking, partnerships, and litigation financing.

Focus Areas

social & economic justicecorporate & government accountabilitycivil rightsaccess to justiceantitrustlabor and workers' rightsdisability rightschild welfare litigationpublic healthclimate and environmental justice

Who They Fund

workers / employees (labor rights beneficiaries)labor advocacy organizations / public interest legal groups

About Justice Catalyst

Justice Catalyst Inc channels most of its giving into litigation finance and public-interest legal work, including a $5,000,000 grant in 2025 to Justice Catalyst Access Fund Inc for public interest litigation funding projects. That scale fits a broader model built around recoverable grants, non-recourse financing, fellowships, and partnerships that support strategic cases and the organizations bringing them. The funder’s recent grants show it backing both case-specific litigation and the infrastructure around it, from the Access Fund in Charlottesville to legal groups pursuing impact litigation in civil rights, labor, and accountability cases. The foundation’s work is organized around legal tools rather than direct service delivery. It supports projects that use the courts to address corporate and government power, social and economic justice, and rights-based litigation for marginalized communities. Among the recent recipients are The Access Fund and The Impact Fund, both tied to litigation finance, alongside advocacy-oriented legal organizations such as Promise of Justice Initiative and Equal Justice Under Law. Justice Catalyst Inc also operates fellowships and seeded partnerships, indicating a grantmaking strategy that pairs funding with project formation and attorney placement.

What Justice Catalyst Funds

A major part of Justice Catalyst Inc’s work is litigation finance for public-interest cases. It gave $315,270 to The Access Fund for litigation finance projects, and in 2024 it added $167,913 to Justice Catalyst Access Fund for litigation finance projects. That pattern points to repeated support for case funding rather than one-off awards. The foundation also backs impact litigation organizations directly. It awarded $282,459 to Promise of Justice Initiative for conducting impact litigation and $100,000 to Equal Justice Under Law for the same purpose. Worker-focused litigation appears in a restricted grant of $85,000 to Altshuler Berzon LLP for impact litigation and advocacy to support workers rights. Its portfolio also includes grantmaking to legal intermediaries: $210,000 went to The Impact Fund for litigation grants, showing support for organizations that pass resources into the field.

How Justice Catalyst Gives

Justice Catalyst Inc’s typical grant size sits in the six-figure range: p25 is $96,250, median is $133,956, and p75 is $228,115. The recent list also includes one very large outlier at $5,000,000, alongside several awards clustered between roughly $100,000 and $315,270. The pattern is repeated support to the same entities across years, especially Justice Catalyst Access Fund and related litigation-finance vehicles. It is a public charity and a regular funder, and it also makes program-related investments. Both unsolicited fellowship applications and unsolicited Access Fund requests appear in the program list, while some specialized funds are invitation-based or RFP-driven.

Financial Snapshot

Annual Giving

$5M

Total Assets

$5M

Total Revenue

$2.8M

Total Expenses

$5M

Typical Grant Size

Most grants fall between $96K and $228K, with a median of $134K.

25th Percentile

$96K

Median

$134K

75th Percentile

$228K

Geographic Reach

National6 states funded

About 0% of grants go to recipients in VA.

Funding intensity

Low

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Recipient	Location	Amount	Year	Purpose
JUSTICE CATALYST ACCESS FUND INC	CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA	$5,000,000	2025	PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION FUNDING PROJECTS
JUSTICE CATALYST ACCESS FUND	CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA	$167,913	2024	LITIGATION FINANCE PROJECTS
THE ACCESS FUND	CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA	$315,270	2023	SUPPORT FOR LITIGATION FINANCE PROJECTS

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