This award is endowed by FFRF member and state/church activist Henry Zumach, who was a plaintiff in FFRF’s second iteration of a lawsuit against a Ten Commandments monument in a public park in La Crosse, Wis. Hank has create this fund with FFRF to acknowledge and reward major activism to recognize those, especially individuals, that have taken a stand against religious intolerance and bigotry. The major award is now $35,000.

Past Recipients