Judith Filler Foundation Grant Recipients
2023 Grant Awards
$10,000
Texas After Violence Project
Continue and expand work on Access to Treatment Counseling Project by educating the mental health community about the traumatic impact of the death penalty on family members of persons sentenced to death or executed and making mental health services accessible to those family members.
$15,000
Texas Defender Service
Produce report on race and the death penalty in Harris County.
$10,000
P.A.C. Community Cares Foundation and Texas Death Penalty Abolition
Host conference on state authorized executions.
2022 Grant Awards
$5,000
Texas After Violence Project
Working with Descendants of People- Executed in the early 20th Century in Texas to Build a Public Archive of the James W. Marquardt Execution Research Files
$10,000
Texas After Violence Project 2022
Deepening and Sustaining the Reach of Access to Treatment Counseling Project
$5,000
Pulitzer Center and End of Isolation Tour
End of Isolation Tour Production of The Box in Austin, Texas July 2022
$3,000
Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center
A Day of Film and Art from Texas‘ Death Row in Austin, Texas Fall 2022
$4,140
Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center and Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement Project
Technology, software and web page for development of a People’s Tribunal to expose that the State of Texas is guilty of human rights and constitutional rights violations against incarcerated people on death row
$5,000
Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center
Support Rodney Reed family attending oral argument of Supreme Court case, Reed v. Goertz,and participate in media related events.
$13,500
Texas Defender Service
Strategic social-media and communications campaigns to expose the inhumanity of the death penalty—and the hope for reform.
$5,000
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
2023 Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty annual conference.
2021 Grant Awards
$5,000
Texas After Violence Project
Building a Public Online Archive of the 20th Century Death Penalty
$1,443
Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center & Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement Project
Pandemic Abolition Zoom License and T-shirts
$10,000
Texas After Violence Project
Deepening and Sustaining the Reach of Access to Treatment publicizing research on public health impact of the death penalty of the families of people convicted and executed and increasing access to mental health services for those families
$2,466.55
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement Project & Kids Against the Death Penalty
Say It Loud & Say It Proud by producing t-shirts, totes, buttons, stickers, and other items that can be used/worn/shared on a daily basis to promote and support the movement of Abolishing the Death Penalty
$4,500
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
2022 Annual Conference
$15,000
Texas Defender Service
Trial Consulting Work
$15,000
Texas Defender Service
Defense Initiated Victim Outreach Project
2020 Grant Awards
$5,000
Texas After Violence Project
Trainings and Multimedia Projects Framing the Death Penalty as an Urgent Health Issue
$5,000
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Support of 2020 Annual Conference
$1,800
Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center and Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Sounding Out the Death Penalty - Audio System
$2,500
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Public Opinion Polling in Dallas County
$1,650
Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center
Virtual Abolition-Texas Anti-Death Penalty March
$11,000
Picture Social Justice Inc.
“Execution by Numbers” film completion and Texas events
2019 Grant Awards
$7,500
Abolitionist Law Center and Fight Toxic Prisons
Abolition Trainings, Conference and Press Event
$5,000
Texas Observer
Production Life in Carceral State: Stories From the Inside – Live Event
$2,455.49
Texas Death Penalty Education & Resource Center
20th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty
$2,580.30
SHAPE Community Center
Bus trip to 20th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty
$2,008.80
Texas Death Penalty Education & Resource Center and Save Jeff Woods Campaign Project
Anti-Death Penalty Outreach and Advocacy Support
$829.65
Texas Death Penalty Education & Resource Center and Kids Against the Death Penalty
#NotInOurName Project Anti-Death Penalty Outreach and Advocacy Support
$6,000
Texas Death Penalty Education & Resource Center and Reed Justice Initiative
Anti-Death Penalty Outreach and Advocacy Support Related to Scheduled Execution of Rodney Reed
$1,126
SHAPE Community Center and Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
Multimedia Readiness
2018 Grant Awards
$3,000
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Support of 2019 Annual Conference
$17,000
Texas Defender Service
Website update ($12,000) and Travel for Pretrial Consulting and Investigation ($5,000)
$5,000
Texas After Violence Project
Study and Document the Public Health Impacts of the Death Penalty
$5,000
Texas After Violence Project
Screening of the movie “Penalty”
$7,500
Abolitionist Law Center and Fight Toxic Prisons
Abolition Trainings, Conference and Press Event
$5,000
Texas Observer
Production Life in Carceral State: Stories from the Inside – Live Event