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 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

deathpenaltyjusticeblackinstituteabolitioncampaignrepeal

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Top recipients

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  • 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

$3.8M
2022
$5.6M
2023
$9.4M
2024

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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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.