California · Private foundation
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.
- $9.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 22
- Total assets, FY2024
- $73M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Fund for Nonviolence funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 63 | $8.8M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $5.2M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $3.4M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $3.1M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $2.4M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.2M | 45% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equal Justice USA Inc | $5,246,000 | 7 | 28% |
| Center for Death Penalty Litigation | $2,511,250 | 7 | 44% |
| Policylink | $1,900,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Ohioans to Stop Executions | $975,000 | 5 | 97% |
| The Promise of Justice Initiative | $543,250 | 6 | 18% |
| Advancing Real Change Inc | $538,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Silicon Valley De-Bug | $415,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Alliance for Safety and Justice | $410,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Witness to Innocence | $340,000 | 4 | 19% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fund for Nonviolence supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Fund for Nonviolence
- How much does Fund for Nonviolence give?
- Fund for Nonviolence reported 80 grants totaling $9,480,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Fund for Nonviolence fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (55%), Philanthropy (12%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Fund for Nonviolence's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Equal Justice USA Inc ($5.2M), Center for Death Penalty Litigation ($2.5M), Policylink ($1.9M).
- Does Fund for Nonviolence fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fund for Nonviolence accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Nonviolence?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Proteus Fund Inc.
- Where is Fund for Nonviolence based?
- Fund for Nonviolence is based in CA.
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