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12 funders with a record of paying for “penalty”

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Roderick and Solange Macarthur → Death Penalty Information Center: $3.0M across 4 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence → Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $1.5M across 6 grants, latest 2024Foundation to Promote Open Society → Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $790K across 2 grants, latest 2023Tides Foundation → Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $462K across 4 grants, latest 2024The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation → Indiana Aids Fund Inc: $322K across 4 grants, latest 2025Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc → Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $215K across 3 grants, latest 2024International Society of → The Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $83K across 3 grants, latest 2025The Butler Family Fund → Community Resource Initiative: $75K across 3 grants, latest 2024Tides Center → Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty: $60K across 2 grants, latest 2022Triangle Community Foundation Inc → Nc Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $30K across 2 grants, latest 2024David D Dodge Foundation → Death Penalty Action: $23K across 9 grants, latest 2025Judith Filler Foundation → Texas Death Penalty Education Resou: $12K across 3 grants, latest 2022Tides Foundation → Death Penalty Information Center: $373K across 4 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence → Equal Justice USA: $350K across 1 grant, latest 2023The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation → The Ucla Foundation: $270K across 3 grants, latest 2025Tides Center → Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $60K across 2 grants, latest 2022Foundation to Promote Open Society → Death Penalty Information Center: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2022The Butler Family Fund → Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City: $40K across 2 grants, latest 2024Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc → Nc Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $33K across 2 grants, latest 2024Triangle Community Foundation Inc → North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $30K across 2 grants, latest 2022David D Dodge Foundation → Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty: $8K across 3 grants, latest 2025Judith Filler Foundation → Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement: $5K across 2 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence → Equal Justice USA Inc: $300K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tides Foundation → Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Inc: $125K across 3 grants, latest 2024The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation → Freestate Justice Inc: $96K across 2 grants, latest 2025Tides Center → Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Inc: $60K across 2 grants, latest 2022Triangle Community Foundation Inc → Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $27K across 4 grants, latest 2024The Butler Family Fund → Southern Center for Human Rights: $20K across 1 grant, latest 2022Judith Filler Foundation → Aba Fund for Justice and Education: $5K across 1 grant, latest 2025David D Dodge Foundation → Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty I: $1K across 1 grant, latest 2025Fund for Nonviolence → Nv Coalition Against Death Penalty: $185K across 2 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence → Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $180K across 2 grants, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Death Penalty Alternatives for Az: $155K across 2 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence → Death Penalty Information Center: $125K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tides Foundation → Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $120K across 2 grants, latest 2022Tides Foundation → Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty: $114K across 3 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence → Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty in: $95K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty: $85K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tides Foundation → Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Inc: $83K across 3 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence → Southern Center for Human Rights: $80K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Alliance for Global Justice: $80K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: $75K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona Inc: $75K across 1 grant, latest 2022The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation → Aids Law Project of Pennsylvania: $75K across 1 grant, latest 2023The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation → Campaign for Southern Equality: $75K across 1 grant, latest 2023Fund for Nonviolence → Community Initiatives: $65K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Neo Philanthropy: $60K across 1 grant, latest 2023Tides Center → North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $60K across 2 grants, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy Inc: $60K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tides Center → Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: $60K across 2 grants, latest 2022Tides Center → Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $60K across 2 grants, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Neo Philanthropy Inc: $60K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → The Phillips Black Project: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2023Fund for Nonviolence → Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Dealth Penalty: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Latino Justice Prldef: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2023Fund for Nonviolence → Mission Talk: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2023Tides Foundation → Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: $50K across 2 grants, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Clarendon County Council On Aging Inc: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Death Penalty Action: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tides Foundation → Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: $50K across 2 grants, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Tides Foundation: $40K across 1 grant, latest 2023Fund for Nonviolence → Fractured Atlas Inc: $40K across 1 grant, latest 2022Fund for Nonviolence → Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty in: $35K across 1 grant, latest 2022Tides Center → Center for Death Penalty Litigation: $32K across 3 grants, latest 2024Fund for Nonviolence: $3.9M on this topic. Open the funder.Fund for Nonviolence$3.9MRoderick and Solange Macarthur: $3.0M on this topic. Open the funder.Roderick and Solange Macarthur$3.0MTides Foundation: $1.4M on this topic. Open the funder.Tides Foundation$1.4MFoundation to Promote Open Society: $840K on this topic. Open the funder.Foundation to Promote Open So…$840KThe Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation: $838K on this topic. Open the funder.The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Fou…$838KTides Center: $392K on this topic. Open the funder.Tides Center$392KZ Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc: $248K on this topic. Open the funder.Z Smith Reynolds Foundation I…$248KThe Butler Family Fund: $135K on this topic. Open the funder.The Butler Family Fund$135KTriangle Community Foundation Inc: $87K on this topic. Open the funder.Triangle Community Foundation…$87KInternational Society of: $83K on this topic. Open the funder.International Society of$83KDavid D Dodge Foundation: $32K on this topic. Open the funder.David D Dodge Foundation$32KJudith Filler Foundation: $23K on this topic. Open the funder.Judith Filler Foundation$23KDeath Penalty Information Center: received $3.0M on this topicDeath Penalty Information Center$3.0MCenter for Death Penalty Litigation: received $1.7M on this topicCenter for Death Penalty Litiga…$1.7MCenter for Death Penalty Litigation: received $1.5M on this topicCenter for Death Penalty Litiga…$1.5MDeath Penalty Information Center: received $548K on this topicDeath Penalty Information Center$548KEqual Justice USA: received $350K on this topicEqual Justice USA$350KIndiana Aids Fund Inc: received $322K on this topicIndiana Aids Fund Inc$322KEqual Justice USA Inc: received $300K on this topicEqual Justice USA Inc$300KThe Ucla Foundation: received $270K on this topicThe Ucla Foundation$270KNevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty: received $199K on this topicNevada Coalition Against the De…$199KKentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Inc: received $185K on this topicKentucky Coalition to Abolish t…$185KNv Coalition Against Death Penalty: received $185K on this topicNv Coalition Against Death Pena…$185KTexas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: received $185K on this topicTexas Coalition to Abolish the…$185KDeath Penalty Alternatives for Az: received $155K on this topicDeath Penalty Alternatives for…$155KMissourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: received $120K on this topicMissourians for Alternatives to…$120KTennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: received $110K on this topicTennesseans for Alternatives to…$110KFreestate Justice Inc: received $96K on this topicFreestate Justice Inc$96KKentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty in: received $95K on this topicKentucky Coalition to Abolish t…$95KNorth Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: received $90K on this topicNorth Carolina Coalition for Al…$90KThe Center for Death Penalty Litigation: received $83K on this topicThe Center for Death Penalty Li…$83KGeorgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Inc: received $83K on this topicGeorgians for Alternatives to t…$83KSouthern Center for Human Rights: received $80K on this topicSouthern Center for Human Rights$80KAlliance for Global Justice: received $80K on this topicAlliance for Global Justice$80KCommunity Resource Initiative: received $75K on this topicCommunity Resource Initiative$75KDeath Penalty Alternatives for Arizona Inc: received $75K on this topicDeath Penalty Alternatives for…$75KAids Law Project of Pennsylvania: received $75K on this topicAids Law Project of Pennsylvania$75KCampaign for Southern Equality: received $75K on this topicCampaign for Southern Equality$75KDeath Penalty Action: received $73K on this topicDeath Penalty Action$73KCommunity Initiatives: received $65K on this topicCommunity Initiatives$65KNc Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: received $63K on this topicNc Coalition for Alternatives t…$63KMissourians to Abolish the Death Penalty: received $60K on this topicMissourians to Abolish the Deat…$60KGeorgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: received $60K on this topicGeorgians for Alternatives to t…$60KNeo Philanthropy: received $60K on this topicNeo Philanthropy$60KFlorida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy Inc: received $60K on this topicFlorida Center for Fiscal and E…$60KNeo Philanthropy Inc: received $60K on this topicNeo Philanthropy Inc$60KThe Phillips Black Project: received $50K on this topicThe Phillips Black Project$50KTennesseans for Alternatives to the Dealth Penalty: received $50K on this topicTennesseans for Alternatives to…$50KLatino Justice Prldef: received $50K on this topicLatino Justice Prldef$50KMission Talk: received $50K on this topicMission Talk$50KClarendon County Council On Aging Inc: received $50K on this topicClarendon County Council On Agi…$50KBlack Lives Matter Oklahoma City: received $40K on this topicBlack Lives Matter Oklahoma City$40KTides Foundation: received $40K on this topicTides Foundation$40KFractured Atlas Inc: received $40K on this topicFractured Atlas Inc$40KGeorgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty in: received $35K on this topicGeorgians for Alternatives to t…$35KSouthern Center for Human Rights: received $20K on this topicSouthern Center for Human Rights$20KTexas Death Penalty Education Resou: received $12K on this topicTexas Death Penalty Education R…$12KProject Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty: received $8K on this topicProject Hope to Abolish the Dea…$8KTexas Death Penalty Abolition Movement: received $5K on this topicTexas Death Penalty Abolition M…$5KAba Fund for Justice and Education: received $5K on this topicAba Fund for Justice and Educat…$5KFloridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty I: received $1K on this topicFloridians for Alternatives to…$1K
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