The Center for Death Penalty Litigation is a non-profit group that provides legal representation to North Carolinians on death row.
Financial Statistics
Total Assets
Total Revenue
Total Expenses Year Total Assets Total Revenue Total Expenses Filing 2025 $4,106,352 $2,998,617 $2,297,237 View 2024 $3,441,030 $3,037,451 $2,510,513 View 2023 $2,963,298 $1,479,710 $2,241,994 View 2022 $3,342,338 $2,108,813 $2,298,840 View 2021 $3,550,859 $2,360,751 $2,619,663 View
Prior year filings: 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011
Revenue Detail
Expenses Detail Employee Compensation Highest Earning Employees Employee Title Total Compensation Laura Porter EXEC DIRECTOR 8AP $263,967 Chris Keelty DEV DIRECTOR 8AP $145,742 Stefanie Faucher DEPUTY DIRECTOR 8AP $143,792 Gretchen Engel EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR $138,500 Yee Huen S Har DIGITAL DIRECTOR, 8AP $137,350 Shelagh Kenney DEPUTY DIRECTOR $106,931 Lafmin Morgan CONTROLLER $68,398
More + Less – Grant Activity Grants Received
All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:
Total Grant Value: $10,268,607 Number of Grants: 119 Number of Funders: 29 Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:
Amount Year Funder Subject $575,000 2023 Fund for Nonviolence 8th Amendment Project: Coordinate national strategy to end the death penalty. $472,000 2024 Fund for Nonviolence Program Support $260,000 2024 Fund for Nonviolence Program Support $250,000 2021 Fund for Nonviolence 8th Amendment Project: Coordinate national strategy to end the death penalty. $200,000 2021 Fund for Nonviolence The Powell Project: Empower defense counsel in trial level capital cases by equipping teams with nationally recognized skills and best practices. $162,000 2023 TIDES FOUNDATION EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT $152,500 2023 Vanguard Charitable FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE $150,000 2024 TIDES FOUNDATION EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT $125,000 2020 TIDES FOUNDATION EQUALITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT $115,000 2024 Fund for Nonviolence Program Support $100,000 2022 Fund for Nonviolence Maintain North Carolina’s de facto moratorium on executions, block new death sentences, and shrink the size of North Carolina’s death row through litigation and public education. $100,000 2021 Fund for Nonviolence Maintain North Carolina’s de facto moratorium on executions, block new death sentences, and shrink the size of North Carolina’s death row through litigation and public education. Abolish the death penalty for all individuals currently sentenced to death in Arizona. $80,000 2022 Fund for Nonviolence 8th Amendment Project: Coordinate national strategy to end the death penalty. $75,000 2024 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT $75,000 2024 The Zegar Family Foundation GENERAL PURPOSE CONTRIBUTION $75,000 2023 The Heising-Simons Foundation for Johnston County organizing $75,000 2023 The Zegar Family Foundation GENERAL PURPOSE CONTRIBUTION $75,000 2022 The Heising-Simons Foundation for Johnston County organizing $75,000 2022 TIDES FOUNDATION EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT $75,000 2022 The Zegar Family Foundation GENERAL PURPOSE CONTRIBUTION $75,000 2021 Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc LEGAL SERVICES $70,000 2023 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT $70,000 2022 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT $70,000 2020 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation For general operating support $50,000 2023 Vital Projects Fund Inc GENERAL SUPPORT
More + Less – All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:
Total Grant Value: $137,000 Number of Grants: 4 Number of Recipients: 4 
