Nature For Justice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852234192
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Falls Church, VA, USA
Phone
2024176598
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,883,909
Expenses
$2,458,352
Assets
$11,167,097
Liabilities
$86,740

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Henry Arthur Cauley (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Henry Arthur Cauley (CEO): $90,137 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

What it reported doing in 2025

AFRICA: NATURE-BASED SOLUTION PROJECTS: In 2025, we advanced our African NbS work laying strong foundations for long-term, community-centered impact across the region. We completed a detailed project plan and due diligence for a large-scale ecological restoration initiative covering approximately 38,550 acres in South Africa in partnership with ACT Group, Ecosystemiq and Apex Conservation Services. Its focus is restoring degraded thicket ecosystems dominated by Spekboom, a highly resilient indigenous succulent plant with exceptional ecological and climate protection value. Reflecting its strategic importance N4Js Board approved the establishment of a registered local entity Nature For Justice South Africa. During 2026, it will enable the growth of an in-country team, strengthening local partnerships, governance, and long-term delivery capacity. In Ethiopia, to advance regenerative agroforestry initiatives that place food security and farmer resilience at their core, we deepened our partnership with Alabaster International to co-develop an Enset-based mixed agroforestry programme. Enset - often referred to as the tree against hunger - is a drought-resilient staple crop central to rural livelihoods.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 55% for direct work, and 45% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 16.7%; rating input score 17
  • Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $102.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 79.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.54; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 65% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 86.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 16.7% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 8 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $410K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.