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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “penalty”
Where the money went
Largest: $575,000 to Center For Death Penalty Litigation — 8th amendment project
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $162,000 to CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $862,875 · through 2025Largest: $90,000 to THE UCLA FOUNDATION — restricted to support the research work of williams institute in modernizing criminal laws and penalties for people living with hiv.
Tides CenterSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $391,540 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to TENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Largest: $5,000 to DEATH PENALTY ACTION — funds for a documentary series about people impacted by the death penalty and those fighting to end it
Largest: $20,000 to Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City — blm okcs death penalty moratorium project is working to end the death penalty in oklahoma.
Largest: $826,970 to Death Penalty Information Center — capital punishment education
Largest: $5,000 to TEXAS DEATH PENALTY EDUCATION RESOU — rodney reed family attend oral argument of supreme court
Largest: $75,000 to CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION — for general operating support
Triangle Community FoundationDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $66,500 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to NC COALITION FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY — civ rts/soc actn
Largest: $395,000 to CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION — to support the infrastructure of the 8th amendment project, a national campaign to abolish the death penalty, fiscally sponsored by the grantee
International Society ofDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $83,000 · through 2025Largest: $35,000 to THE CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION — grant funding to provide representation to those on death row as well as providing consulting, research and training services.
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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 →