INNOCENCE PROJECT INC

2024 · Form 990 · revenue $37.3M · expenses $31.5M · assets $121.9M

EIN

32-0077563

Address

40 WORTH ST RM 701, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2994

Website

WWW.INNOCENCEPROJECT.ORG

NTEE code

P20

Subsection

501(c)(3)

Ruling year

2007

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Mission

THE INNOCENCE PROJECT, INC. (IP) IS A NATIONAL NONPROFIT WITH THE MISSION TO FREE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WRONGLY CONVICTED AND REFORM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM TO PREVENT FUTURE INJUSTICE. THE IP HAS HELPED EXONERATE OVER 251 PEOPLE, A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF WHOM ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR AND SOME WHO WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH. CUMULATIVELY, THEY SPENT THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN PRISON FOR CRIMES THEY DID NOT COMMIT, AND IN MANY CASES, THE PERSON WHO ACTUALLY COMMITTED THE CRIME WENT ON TO COMMIT OTHERS. THE IP IS DEDICATED TO RESEARCHING, ANALYZING AND EDUCATING STAKEHOLDERS AND THE PUBLIC ON THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND OTHER SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS. THE IP WORKS TO PASS LAWS AND PREVENT THE ADMISSIBILITY OF UNRELIABLE, NON-SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO PREVENT FUTURE MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE. FOUNDED IN 1992 AS A CLINIC AT CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW AT YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, THE IP INCORPORATED AS A 501(C)3 ORGANIZATION IN 2004, THOUGH IT MAINTAINS AN AFFILIATION WITH CARDOZO.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

29 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

42 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

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Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Funders of this organization

299 grantors reported grants to this organization, $71,191,320 in all, tax years 2009 to 2025; the 25 largest shown (all 299). Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.