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12 funders with a record of paying for “confinement”
Where the money went
Largest: $305,000 to ETH ZURICH FOUNDATION — simons collaboration on confinement and qcd strings
National Religious CampaignWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
34 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to ACLU OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION INC — grant to support work to continue monitoring implementation of recent state reforms to juvenile solitary confinement and solitary confinement of vulnerable populations in adult pri…
Largest: $100,000 to NEW YORK CAMPAIGN FOR ALTERNATIVES TO ISOLATED CONFINEMENT — continued support to monitor implementation of the halt bill curtailing the use of solitary confinement in new york state.
Largest: $650,000 to CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY INC — to support reducing and ending solitary confinement for youth in custody.
Largest: $100,000 to Juvenile Justice Advocates International — support conditions of confinement and translation work
Largest: $10,000 to NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE — social workers and allies against solitary confinement - engaging in collaborative efforts to strengthen ties between academics, social work practitioners, advocates, and directly …
Largest: $47,500 to WOMEN'S COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION — to decarcerate the female and gender expansive jail population in new york city and improve conditions of confinement.
Largest: $100,000 to THE ROAD RECOVERY FOUNDATION — general support for an organization providing music-based youth development support for young people in new york who are in various forms of state care, either for substance abuse …
The Aleph InstituteSurfside, FLCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2022Largest: $868,497 to CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN DIGNITY — aleph founded and is currently incubating the center for justice and human dignity (cjhd), which is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce prison incarceration in the …
Abolitionist Law CenterPittsburgh, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $64,000 · through 2022Largest: $22,000 to PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY — funding contractors working on the end solitary confinement campaigns
Largest: $10,000 to Illinois Equine Humane Center — to replace fencing used to keep the horses safely confined to the paddocks and pastures
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2022Largest: $1.3M to Stanford University — support for the blue foods assessment, $500: general operating support; $500: support for stanford law, support for buck/cardinal club, general operating support, general operating…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →