California · Nonprofit
FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT
FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,000 to it, the largest being VITAL PROJECTS FUND INC ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $264k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $685k
- Net assets
- $286k
What Felony Murder Elimination Project does
Mission
Felony Murder Elimination Project is a grassroots organization of families and community members impacted by incarceration. Our goal is to eliminate the felony murder rule from California law and bring an end to extreme sentences, particularly the death penalty and life without the possibility of parole.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Felony Murder Elimination Project is a grassroots organization of families and community members impacted by incarceration. Our goal is to eliminate the felony murder rule from California law and bring an end to extreme sentences, particularly the death penalty and life without the possibility of parole.
$261,175 spentof which $261,940 as grants$1,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $261,175.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $46k to $275k (+495%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $40k → $350k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 63% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT?
- FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,000 to it, the largest being VITAL PROJECTS FUND INC ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $685,000 in grants to FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT?
- VITAL PROJECTS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing