National Religious Campaign Against Torture
ActiveCivil Rights & Advocacy
About National Religious Campaign Against Torture
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture works to end the torture of solitary confinement, promoting restorative alternatives and human rights.
Focus Areas
Prison reformSolitary confinementHuman rightsAdvocacyFaith communitiesSurvivor supportLegislative reform
Who They Fund
incarcerated individuals held in solitary confinement (state prisons and local jails)families of incarcerated people impacted by solitarystate and local advocacy coalitions and grassroots campaign organizations
Funding Style
advocacy and organizing support
About National Religious Campaign Against Torture
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture centers its grantmaking on reducing and ending solitary confinement in prisons and jails, with funding that supports campaigns, coalition work, research, education, and policy reform. In the recent grants list, repeated support goes to state and local efforts aimed at changing how solitary confinement is used, including multi-year funding for Trinity Episcopal Church in Buffalo and Disability Rights North Carolina. The foundation also backs interfaith and civil-rights partners working on specific state campaigns, showing a pattern of using grants to help local advocates organize around solitary-confinement reform. Its largest recent award in the data was $170,000 to Trinity Epsicopal Church in 2023 for work to reduce the use of solitary confinement in New York prisons and jails, followed by a $105,000 grant to the same grantee in 2024. Other sizable grants support efforts in Maryland and Virginia through Interfaith Action for Human Rights, and in Pennsylvania through the Abolitionist Law Center. The grant record points to a funder that concentrates on advocacy tied to prison conditions, human rights, and survivor impact, rather than broad criminal-justice philanthropy.
What National Religious Campaign Against Torture Funds
A central theme is state-level anti-solitary campaigns. The foundation gave $55,000 in 2025 to DC Justice Lab for the "Unlock the Box DC" project and $50,000 in 2023 for research, education, and advocacy to reform solitary confinement in the District of Columbia. They also support coalition-based campaigns in multiple states. In Louisiana, the Justice and Accountability Center of La received $50,000 in 2023 and $50,000 in 2025 for the Louisiana Stop Solitary Coalition & Campaign. In Rhode Island, Opendoors received $53,000 in 2025 for the Stop Torture RI campaign project and $48,297 in 2023 for reform efforts in Rhode Island. The funder backs disability-rights and faith-based partners as well. Disability Rights North Carolina received $50,000 in 2025 for the #EndSolitaryNC campaign, while Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc received $50,000 in 2025 for the Ending Solitary Now project.
How National Religious Campaign Against Torture Gives
Typical grants cluster tightly around the middle of the range: p25 is $40,000, median is $45,000, and p75 is $50,000. The recent record also includes a smaller number of larger awards, such as $170,000 and $105,000, alongside many grants at or near $50,000. Several recipients appear across multiple years, including Trinity Episcopal Church, Disability Rights North Carolina, Opendoors, Abolitionist Law Center, and Justice and Accountability Center of La, which suggests recurring support for ongoing campaigns. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$900K
Total Assets
$6.8M
Total Revenue
$5.4M
Total Expenses
$3.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $40K and $50K, with a median of $45K.
25th Percentile
$40K
Median
$45K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
National20 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
REV RON STIEF
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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