Two social justice organizations from Jamaica Plain will help share $2.75 million in reparations funding from the Episcopal City Mission, a Boston-based nonprofit associated with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

The two organizations, Bikes Not Bombs and City Life/Vida Urbana, are among 25 Massachusetts nonprofits that support Black, Indigenous and other people of color that will receive the awards, officials said at a ceremony at St. Cyprian Episcopal Church, a historical Black church in Roxbury, in September.

Each will receive $137,000, officials said.

“Our Christian faith taught us that when we have benefitted from injustice, we’re called to participate in repair. We couldn’t change the past, but what we could do is …tell the truth about it and take responsibility for it,’’ said the Rev. Arrington Chambliss, executive director at Episcopal City Mission.

Elijah Evans, CEO of Bikes Not Bombs, said the award will help support his nonprofit’s mission, which is to use bicycles as a vehicle for social change and encourage youth apprenticeships. The money would put more under-resourced youth on a path toward “long-term success and sustainability,” Evans said.

He said the award’s impact goes beyond financial compensation and will drive more social progress, economic mobility and a sustainable transportation movement.

“Reparations can be thought of as certainly money, but the ripple effect [for organizations like ours]… makes a huge difference,” Evans said in a recent interview at his bike shop.

The award is especially impactful since Mayor Michelle Wu’s fiscal 2027 budget eliminated public funding for the city’s year-round, school-year youth jobs program. Bikes Not Bombs had relied on that funding, Evans said.

“This coming year we don’t have any funding for school-year jobs, so that’s really going to impact our programming,” said Evans, who joined the organization as a 14-year-old volunteer. “It means we have to figure out where to find that money to keep our program going and to make sure young people who are relying on these jobs, whose families are relying on these jobs, are able to continue.”

Denise Matthews-Turner, executive director of City Life/Vida Urbana, a bilingual grassroots advocate for tenant rights, said the payments would help support the organization’s housing and social justice advocacy.

“Our mission [is] to build the power of working-class people,” Matthews-Turner said. “The reparations payments support us in continuing to do our core work.”

The organization would also be able to better explore options on dismantling deeply-rooted systemic inequalities, Matthews-Turner said.

“As an institution, we’ve not done the organizational work of developing a position or a political framework on reparations,” Matthews-Turner said.

The reparations payments represent 20% of Episcopal City Mission’s endowment and are the result of a multiyear self-examination of Episcopalian’s historic ties to slavery and indigenous displacement.

Chambliss, the mission’s executive director, said the organization aims to foster solidarity with historically marginalized communities, including helping to close the race-wealth gap.

To ensure the fair distribution of payments, a Reparations Advisory Committee and Stewards of six members and community leaders was formed. The group deliberated for more than a year before selecting the recipients.

Althea Smith, an ordained minister and committee member, said the aim was to provide “life-changing” support that bolsters local organizations.

“We didn’t look at the name, we looked at what they were doing. It was important to us that they were doing the work of supporting people in the margins,” said Smith, who added she hopes the work will inspire others.

Chambliss said reparations’ work is not yet finished.

“The $2.75 million is a milestone for us,’’ she said. “It’s not a finish line.”