Funding search · EIN 770457185 · Berkeley, CA
Fund for Nonviolence
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 211
- grants reported
- $18.9M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $50,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. 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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Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Equal Justice USA7 grants · $3.3M
- Policylink3 grants · $1.7M
- Center for Death Penalty Litigation6 grants · $1.5M
- Tx Defender Service4 grants · $525,000
- Tides Center3 grants · $500,000
- Ohioans To Stop Executions2 grants · $475,000
- Equal Justice USA2 grants · $390,000
- Alliance for Safety and Justice2 grants · $290,000
- Ohioans To Stop Executions1 grant · $250,000
- Tides Foundation3 grants · $250,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 211 grants.
- $1.0M
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $1.0M
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $1.0M
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General Support
- $575,000
Center for Death Penalty Litigation · Durham, NC · 2023
8th Amendment Project
- $500,000
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $500,000
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $472,000
Center for Death Penalty Litigation · Durham, NC · 2024
Program Support
- $350,000
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $350,000
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
EJUSA Death Penalty Repeal
- $300,000
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Death Penalty Project
- $260,000
Center for Death Penalty Litigation · Durham, NC · 2024
Program Support
- $250,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $250,000
Tx Defender Service · Austin, TX · 2024
Program Support
- $250,000
Ohioans To Stop Executions · Columbus, OH · 2023
General Support
- $250,000
Ohioans To Stop Executions · Columbus, OH · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $230,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Spero Justice Center/Powell Project
- $225,000
Ohioans To Stop Executions · Columbus, OH · 2024
Program Support
- $225,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Powell Project
- $200,000
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2023
Liberation Ventures
- $170,000
Alliance for Safety and Justice · Oakland, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $155,000
Missourians for Alts To Death Penal · Springfield, MO · 2024
Program Support
- $150,000
Native Americans in Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
- $150,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $150,000
Tx Defender Service · Houston, TX · 2023
Capital Litigation Communications Project
- $130,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $125,000
Catholic Mobilizing Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
- $125,000
Get Free Movement Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $125,000
Witness To Innocence · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Program Support
- $125,000
Witness To Innocence · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General Support
- $125,000
Death Penalty Information Center · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the transformative Racial Justice storytelling project
- $120,000
Alliance for Safety and Justice · Oakland, CA · 2023
Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice
- $120,000
Alliance for Safety and Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022
Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice
- $115,000
Center for Death Penalty Litigation · Durham, NC · 2024
Program Support
- $115,000
Nc Coalition for Alts To Death Pena · Durham, NC · 2023
General Support
- $110,000
Advancing Real Change · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Program Support
- $110,000
Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2023
The Faith Leaders of Color Coalition
- $110,000
Advancing Real Change · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Florida Expansion
- $100,500
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2022
Liberation Ventures
- $100,000
Common Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $100,000
Equity and Transformation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program Support
- $100,000
Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2024
Program Support
- $100,000
Hubb Arts and Trauma Center · Newark, NJ · 2024
Program Support
- $100,000
Nc Coalition for Alts To Death Pena · Durham, NC · 2024
Program Support
- $100,000
Nv Coalition Against Death Penalty · Reno, NV · 2024
Program Support
- $100,000
Promise of Justice Initiative · New Orleans, LA · 2024
Program Support
- $100,000
Advancing Real Change · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Advancing Real Change Florida Mitigation
- $100,000
Promise of Justice Initiative · New Orleans, LA · 2023
LA REPEAL Project
- $100,000
Center for Death Penalty Litigation · Durham, NC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $100,000
Promise of Justice Initiative · New Orleans, LA · 2022
La repeal
- $95,000
Kentucky Coalition To Abolish the Death Penalty in · Louisville, KY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $90,000
Tennesseans for Alts To Death Penal · Nashville, TN · 2024
Program Support
- $90,000
Tx Coalition To Abolish Death Penal · Austin, TX · 2024
Program Support
- $90,000
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
The Breaking Cycles of Trauma Project
- $85,000
So Carolinian for Alt To Death Pena · Greenville, SC · 2024
Program Support
- $85,000
Nv Coalition Against Death Penalty · Reno, NV · 2023
General Support
- $85,000
So Carolinian for Alt To Death Pena · Greenville, SC · 2023
General Support
- $85,000
Tx Coalition To Abolish Death Penal · Austin, TX · 2023
General Support
- $85,000
Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty · Reno, NV · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $80,000
Death Penalty Alternatives for Az · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Program Support
- $80,000
Missourians for Alts To Death Penal · Kansas City, MO · 2023
General Support
- $80,000
Alliance for Global Justice · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Black Lives Matter OKC - "Oklahoma Death Penalty Moratorium Project"
- $80,000
Center for Death Penalty Litigation · Durham, NC · 2022
8th Amendment Project
- $80,000
Southern Center for Human Rights · Atlanta, GA · 2022
SCHR 2022 Death Penalty Litigation, Advocacy, and Movement Building in the Deep South and to fund a staff position to strengthen the abolition movement among black faith communities across the South (FLOC)
- $75,000
Arizona Capital Representation Proj · Tuscon, AZ · 2024
Program Support
- $75,000
Floridians for Alts To the Death Pe · Tampa, FL · 2024
Program Support
- $75,000
Ky Coalition To Abolish Death Penal · Louisville, KY · 2024
Program Support
- $75,000
Pa for Alternatives To the Death Pe · York, PA · 2024
Program Support
- $75,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $75,000
Tx Defender Service · Austin, TX · 2024
Program Support
- $75,000
Death Penalty Alternatives for Az · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General Support
- $75,000
Floridians for Alts To the Death Pe · Tampa, FL · 2023
General Support
- $75,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2023
Donkeysaddle Abolition Project
- $75,000
Ky Coalition To Abolish Death Penal · Louisville, KY · 2023
General Support
- $75,000
Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $75,000
Texas Coalition To Abolish the Death Penalty · Austin, TX · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $73,000
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $70,000
Georgians for Alts To the Death Pen · Sandy Springs, GA · 2023
General Support
- $65,000
Equal Justice USA · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Leaders of Color healing retreat
- $65,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2022
Live Free USA: Anti-Death Penalty Campaign and the Black Clergy Tables
- $65,000
North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives To the D · Durham, NC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $65,000
South Carolinians for Alternatives To the Death Pe · Greenville, SC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $60,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $60,000
Alliance for Global Justice · Tuscon, AZ · 2023
Black Lives Matter OKC
- $60,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023
Responsible Business Initiative for Justice Death Penalty Abolition Project
- $60,000
Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Healing Dialogue and Action
- $60,000
Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy · Tallahassee, FL · 2022
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
- $60,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022
Ending the Death Penalty (RBIJ)
- $50,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation I · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Arizona Coalition for Change · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Beloved Community Center of Greensb · Greensboro, NC · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Black Organizing Leadership and Dig · Hawkinsville, GA · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Center for Empowered Politics Educa · Oakland, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights · Oakland, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Emancipate North Carolina · Durham, NC · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Equal Justice Society · Oakland, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Essie Justice Group · Oakland, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Firstrepair · Evanston, IL · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Force Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2024
Program Support
- $50,000
Healing Justice · Chanel Hill, NC · 2024
Program Support
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