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Fund for Nonviolence
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k15 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Equal Justice USA | $1,000,000 |
| PolicyLink | $1,000,000 |
| Equal Justice USA | $500,000 |
| PolicyLink | $500,000 |
| Center For Death Penalty Litigation | $472,000 |
| Equal Justice USA | $350,000 |
| Center For Death Penalty Litigation | $260,000 |
| Tides Center | $250,000 |
| TX Defender Service | $250,000 |
| Ohioans to Stop Executions | $225,000 |
| Alliance for Safety and Justice | $170,000 |
| Missourians for Alts to Death Penal | $155,000 |
| Tides Foundation | $150,000 |
| Native Americans in Philanthropy | $150,000 |
| NEO Philanthropy | $130,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Fund for Nonviolence’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EJEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +77% · 28% of their budget
CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION7× · 2018–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +2% · 44% of their budget- OTOHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS5× · 2020–2024 · $975k · revenue +557% · 97% of their budget
Funded once
- LNLibertas Networkgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +60%
- SCSOUTH CAROLINIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTYone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -23% · 29% of their budget
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +50%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Sowega Rising. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 135 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE USA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds OHIOANS TO STOP EXECUTIONS ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Advancing Real Change Inc ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley De-Bug ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WITNESS TO INNOCENCE ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds Win Without War Education Fund ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Texas Defender Service ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds Essie Justice Group ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Center · New Venture Fund · Borealis Philanthropy · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fund for Nonviolence funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fp YouthOutcry Foundation Inc Dba the Hubb Arts & Trauma Center — 29% of income from government
- Advancing Real Change Inc — 12% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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