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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS FOUNDATION.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2024 , filed 3 March 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.

Totals

Total revenue
$875,380
Total expenses
$628,673
Contributions and grants received
$743,158
Grants paid
$497,173
Program service revenue
$101,045
Investment income
$31,066
Other revenue
$111
Total assets, end of year
$1,224,965
Total liabilities, end of year
$75,028
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,149,937
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$532,569
Management and general expenses
$55,386
Fundraising expenses
$40,718
Program service expenses (Part III)
$532,569

Program services were 84.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $743,158

  • 2a · Program service revenue: SUBSCRIPTION REVENUE

    total $101,045 · related or exempt $101,045

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $31,066 · excluded $31,066

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $111 · excluded $111

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $111

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $497,173 · program services $497,173

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $15,515 · management and general $15,515

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $100,415 · program services $24,058 · management and general $37,516 · fundraising $38,841

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $714 · program services $407 · management and general $307

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $160 · management and general $160

  • 17 · Travel

    total $5,384 · program services $5,384

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $3,923 · program services $3,923

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,327 · management and general $1,327

  • 24a · Other expenses: BANK CHARGES

    total $2,028 · management and general $151 · fundraising $1,877

  • 24b · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $1,624 · program services $1,624

  • 24c · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

    total $410 · management and general $410

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $37,662 · end of year $66,163

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $898,128 · end of year $998,680

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $26,674

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $8,250

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $276 · end of year $82,051

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $47,070

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $3,923

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $43,147

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $29,711 · end of year $3,299

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $3,125 · end of year $71,729

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $903,230 · end of year $1,149,937

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ON EXONERATIONS OF INNOCENT CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS IN ORDER TO PREVENT FUTURE FALSE CONVICTIONS BY LEARNING FROM PAST ERRORS.

  • THE ORGANIZATION COLLECTS, ANALYZES, AND DISSEMINATES INFORMATION ABOUT ALL KNOWN EXONERATIONS OF INNOCENT CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS IN THE UNITED STATES, FROM 1989 TO PRESENT. THE ORGANIZATION PUBLISHES THOSE STORIES AND PROVIDES ACCESSIBLE, SEARCHABLE, ONLINE STATISTICAL DATA ABOUT THE CASES. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO CONDUCTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE PROCESS OF EXONERATION AND OF FACTORS THAT LEAD TO THE UNDERLYING WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS.

    Expenses $532,569 · Grants $497,173 · Revenue $101,045

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Meghan Cousino

    PRESIDENT/TR

    Total calculated
    $33,527
    From this org
    $33,527
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jessica Weinstock

    SECRETARY &

    Total calculated
    $6,386
    From this org
    $6,386
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samuel Gross

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Simon Cole

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barbara O'Brien

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 December 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202620139349302957

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