Funding search · EIN 830645359 · Wilmington, DE
David D Dodge Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 65
- grants reported
- $177,765
- total given
- 2022–2025
- filing years
- $1,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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24 grants matching “penalty” · $36,700
- $2,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support DPA Execution Protest Project
- $1,000
Floridians for Alternatives To the Death Penalty I · Tampa, FL · 2025
To support the MSW Student Internship Project
- $1,000
Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penalty · Lanett, AL · 2025
To support the Execution Avoidance Project
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support the Execution Crisis Fund
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support the Execution Protest Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support the For Whom the Bell Tolls Project
- $6,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penalty · Lanett, AL · 2024
To support the Emmanuel Littlejohn Documentary Project
- $2,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
To support Death Penalty Action
- $1,600
Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penalty · Lanett, AL · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
Support Execution Protest Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
Support the Littlejohn Campaign
- $350
Death Penalty Focus · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $250
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
Support DPA Execution Protest Project
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
People vs. the Death penalty video
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
Death Penalty Action Execution Protests Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
Protest Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
Death Penalty Action Execution Protest Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
DPA's Film Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
support for financial review.
- $5,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
funds for a documentary series about people impacted by the death penalty and those fighting to end it
- $2,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
Execution Protests Project
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
Death Penalty Action Execution Protests project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Human Rights Watch12 grants · $62,915
- Southern Poverty Law Center5 grants · $28,000
- Death Penalty Action19 grants · $27,750
- Razias Ray of Hope Foundation4 grants · $16,200
- Execution Intervention Project4 grants · $9,200
- Freedom of the Press Foundation3 grants · $8,000
- Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penalty3 grants · $7,600
- University of Richmond2 grants · $6,500
- South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe6 grants · $5,750
- Project Sheluka4 grants · $3,500
Giving over time
Grant history
All 65 reported grants, largest first.
- $20,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2022
Iran Fund
- $12,500
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2024
To support Seeking Justice Initiatives
- $10,000
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2025
To support SPLC's litigation work
- $7,500
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2023
Human Rights Watch San Diego
- $7,500
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2022
2023 San Diego Human Rights Watch Film festival
- $7,500
Razias Ray of Hope Foundation · Wellesley Hls, MA · 2022
Hunger PRogram in Afghanistan
- $6,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $6,500
Razias Ray of Hope Foundation · Wellesley, MA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2025
To support HRW Iran project
- $5,000
University of Richmond · University of Richmond, VA · 2025
To support the SKS Book Project
- $5,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2024
To support Iran work
- $5,000
Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penalty · Lanett, AL · 2024
To support the Emmanuel Littlejohn Documentary Project
- $5,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
funds for a documentary series about people impacted by the death penalty and those fighting to end it
- $5,000
Freedom of the Press Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Secure Drop project
- $5,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2022
Protecting Human Rights in Iran
- $5,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2022
Ukraine Fund
- $5,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2022
China Project
- $2,700
Execution Intervention Project · West Palm Beach, FL · 2025
To support the EIP Nitrogen Gas Book Project
- $2,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support DPA Execution Protest Project
- $2,500
Execution Intervention Project · West Palm Beach, FL · 2025
To support the Spiritual Accompaniment Project
- $2,500
Freedom of the Press Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
To support SecureDrop
- $2,500
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2025
General & Unrestricted
- $2,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
To support Death Penalty Action
- $2,500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
Execution Protests Project
- $2,000
Execution Intervention Project · West Palm Beach, FL · 2025
To support the Nitrogen Book Project
- $2,000
Execution Intervention Project · West Palm Beach, FL · 2025
To support the EIP Nitrogen Gas Book Project
- $2,000
South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe · Greenville, SC · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $2,000
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2022
SPLC Intelligence Project
- $1,600
Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penalty · Lanett, AL · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $1,500
University of Richmond · University of Richmond, VA · 2025
To support the SKS Book Project
- $1,500
South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe · Greenville, SC · 2023
Fast n' Vigil Internship Excursion Project
- $1,200
Razias Ray of Hope Foundation · Wellesley Hls, MA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support the Execution Crisis Fund
- $1,000
Floridians for Alternatives To the Death Penalty I · Tampa, FL · 2025
To support the MSW Student Internship Project
- $1,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2025
To support Yemen work
- $1,000
Project Hope To Abolish the Death Penalty · Lanett, AL · 2025
To support the Execution Avoidance Project
- $1,000
Project Sheluka · Union, KY · 2025
To support the Zambia Project
- $1,000
Razias Ray of Hope Foundation · Wellesley Hls, MA · 2025
To support the Special Student Project
- $1,000
South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe · Greenville, SC · 2025
To support the Community Organizing Project
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
Support Execution Protest Project
- $1,000
Project Sheluka · Union, KY · 2024
Support Zambia Project
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
People vs. the Death penalty video
- $1,000
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2023
SPLC's Immigrant Right Project
- $1,000
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
Death Penalty Action Execution Protests project
- $1,000
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Student Press Freedom Initiative
- $1,000
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2022
funds for Voices for Justice Annual Celebration on October 6, 2022 in Los Angeles, California
- $1,000
Project Sheluka · Union, KY · 2022
Project Sheluka
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support the For Whom the Bell Tolls Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2025
To support the Execution Protest Project
- $500
Freedom of the Press Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
To support The Tracker
- $500
Project Sheluka · Union, KY · 2025
General & Unrestricted
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
Support the Littlejohn Campaign
- $500
South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe · Greenville, SC · 2024
To support the 2024 Summer Intern Program
- $500
South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe · Greenville, SC · 2024
To support 2024 Execution Response Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
support for financial review.
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
DPA's Film Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
Protest Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
Death Penalty Action Execution Protests Project
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2023
Death Penalty Action Execution Protest Project
- $500
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2023
HRW Film Club Special
- $500
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $415
Human Rights Watch · New York, NY · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $350
Death Penalty Focus · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $250
Death Penalty Action · Ghent, NY · 2024
Support DPA Execution Protest Project
- $250
South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe · Greenville, SC · 2023
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