Innocence Project is a offender rehabilitation program based in New York, NY that was founded in 2003. As of 2019 they had $27 million in revenue and $40 million in assets.
The Innocence Project works to exonerate innocent people through DNA testing and reform the criminal justice system to prevent injustice.
Legal services (includes legal, intake and social work): The Innocence Project leverages The fact-finding science of dna testing to expose errors in The criminal justice system and to exonerate people in prison or on death row for crimes they did not commit. To determine which cases we can accept, our steadfast intake team reviewed nearly 2000 letters in fiscal year 2019 from people requesting investigation into their Innocence claims. The team then conducts an in-depth evaluation of The cases to determine whether dna testing can prove Innocence and presents them to our legal team to make a final determination of which cases to accept. Once cases are accepted, our staff attorneys work with cardozo law school clinic students to investigate The cases, to find biological evidence and to gain access to post-conviction testing through agreements or court orders. When dna results or other newly discovered evidence proves our clients' Innocence, ...
Science and research: The ip provides resources to assist researchers, lawyers, journalists, and members of The public interested in wrongful convictions. These resources include statistics about exoneration cases, systematic literature reviews of specific research questions, evaluation of forensic science methods, analyses of special topics, and ideas for future research. In The fiscal year ending june 30, 2019, we published a synthesis of cognitive bias research in forensic science in forensic science international and an analysis of guilty pleas and wrongful convictions in federal sentencing reporter. We also participated in The public comment and review process of several standards development organizations working to develop standards relating to forensic science.
Policy: The Innocence Project works with congress, state legislatures and courts, executive agencies, local leaders and law enforcement to pass laws, policies and rules to reveal and prevent wrongful convictions. Our policy priorities reflect The lessons learned from dna exonerations and address The contributors to wrongful convictions, which include: eyewitness misidentification, unvalidated and improper forensic science, false confessions, incentivized witnesses, government misconduct, and inadequate defense. The Innocence Project works to ensure fair access to post-conviction dna testing and preservation of biological evidence for testing, as well as legal mechanisms for innocent people seeking relief through new non-dna evidence. We work to implement police practice reform, from improved identification procedures to The recording of custodial interrogations. The policy department also educates system players about The human factors that affect criminal investigations, from racial and implicit bias to tunnel vision. We also advocate for laws that fairly compensate exonerated people so that ...
Fiscal year ending | Date received by IRS | Form | PDF link |
---|---|---|---|
2019-06 | Oct 19, 2020 | 990 | View PDF |
2018-06 | Sep 14, 2019 | 990 | View PDF |
2017-06 | Mar 14, 2018 | 990 | View PDF |
2016-06 | Jul 6, 2017 | 990 | View PDF |
2015-06 | Feb 24, 2016 | 990 | View PDF |
...and five more Form 990 PDFs |
Field | 2019 |
---|---|
Total grants, contributions, etc. | $26,490,219 |
Program services | $272,765 |
Investment income and dividends | $493,868 |
Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 |
Royalty revenue | $0 |
Net rental income | $0 |
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $382 |
Net income from fundraising events | $-62,102 |
Net income from gaming activities | $0 |
Net income from sales of inventory | $0 |
Miscellaneous revenues | $506,245 |
Total revenues | $27,701,377 |
Vendor | Services | Amount paid | Date |
---|---|---|---|
Tait Weller and Baker LLP | Tax accounting | 2020-06-30 | |
█████████ | Content management system software | 2019-08-16 | |
███ █████ █████ | Legislative Consulting | $130,105 | 2019-06-01 |
████████ ██████████ | Development Consulting | $143,082 | 2019-06-01 |
███ | Benefit Event Consultant | $74,970 | 2019-06-01 |
█████ ███ ███ | Communication Consulting | $237,400 | 2019-06-01 |
███████ ██████████ ███ | Public Interest Consulting | $130,105 | 2019-06-01 |
Name | Title | Compensation | Most recent data |
---|---|---|---|
Joseph Thompson | Chief Financial Officer | - | Nov. 22, 2020 |
Christina Swarns | Executive Director | - | Nov. 22, 2020 |
██████ ████ | Director of Operations | $146,526 | May 20, 2020 |
████ █████ | Communications Director | $146,421 | June 30, 2018 |
████ ███████ | Director of Information Technology | - | May 20, 2020 |
██████ ███████ | Director of Development and External Affairs | $159,202 | Nov. 22, 2020 |
███████ █████ | Director of Policy / Policy Director | $143,567 | Nov. 22, 2020 |
█████ ████ ████ | Director of Individual Giving | - | May 20, 2020 |
████████ ███████ | State Campaigns Director | - | May 20, 2020 |
███████ ████████ | Director of Human Resources | - | Nov. 22, 2020 |
...and 23 more key personnel |