· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k15 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PolicyLink | $1,000,000 |
| Equal Justice USA | $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 |
| TX Defender Service | $250,000 |
| Tides Center | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Fund for Nonviolence’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SCSOUTH CAROLINIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTYone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -23% · 29% of their budget
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +50%- LNLibertas Networkgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +60%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Essie Justice Group ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fund for Nonviolence funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for Nonviolence. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fp YouthOutcry Foundation Inc Dba the Hubb Arts & Trauma Center: 29% of income from government
- Advancing Real Change Inc: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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