Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$897,233

Total expenses

$1,176,883

Contributions and grants received

$974,060

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$86

Other revenue

-$76,913

Total assets, end of year

$1,085,756

Total liabilities, end of year

$74,886

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,010,870

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$870,148

Management and general expenses

$176,643

Fundraising expenses

$130,092

Program service expenses (Part III)

$870,148

Program services were 73.9% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• EACH YEAR OUR TEAM WORKS DILIGENTLY TO SCREEN HUNDREDS OF REQUESTS FOR HELP, TO GIVE FREEDOM BACK TO PEOPLE IN PRISON FOR CRIMES THEY DID NOT COMMIT. GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT STAFF, LAW STUDENTS, INVESTIGATORS, AND VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS SPEND THOUSANDS OF HOURS CAREFULLY ANALYZING THESE CASES TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE IS NEW EVIDENCE THAT COULD SHOW ACTUAL INNOCENCE. WE LITIGATE CASES WHERE NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE IS IDENTIFIABLE AND CAN PROVIDE CLEAR AND CONVINCING PROOF OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE. THE GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT ALSO WORKS TO IMPROVE THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM TO PREVENT WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND EDUCATES LAW STUDENTS, THE COURTS, LAWYERS, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ON THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND HOW TO PREVENT THEM.LAST YEAR, WE RESPONDED TO HUNDREDS OF PHONE CALLS, EMAILS, AND LETTERS REQUESTING INFORMATION ON OUR SERVICES. WE RECEIVED 161 LETTERS REQUESTING OUR ASSISTANCE AND SENT 86 APPLICANT QUESTIONNAIRES IN RESPONSE TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS FOLLOWING OUR INITIAL SCREENING OF THE LETTERS RECEIVED. WE RECEIVED 57 COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES BACK FROM APPLICANTS. WE SCREENED AND INVESTIGATED THOSE REQUESTS. LAST YEAR, AS IS TYPICAL FOR THE GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT, WE HAD MORE THAN 75 CASES OPENED IN SCREENING AND INVESTIGATION, AND APPROXIMATELY 6 CASES OPEN IN SOME FORM OF LITIGATION, COURT-ORDERED DNA TESTING, OR FORMAL REVIEW BY THE MINNESOTA CONVICTION REVIEW UNIT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, WE CREATED, IMPLEMENTED, AND IN 2023 PROVIDED ONGOING SUPPORT FOR, A STATEWIDE CONVICTION REVIEW UNIT TO PROVIDE A POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL AVENUE FOR RELIEF FOR PEOPLE CLAIMING THEY ARE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED. WE REACHED APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY-FIVE (75) STUDENTS THROUGH CLASSES AND CLINICS TAUGHT AT LAW SCHOOLS, PROVIDED COMMUNITY AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION TO MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE, AND GOT A LAW PASSED IN NORTH DAKOTA TO STUDY LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICES REGARDING THE RECORDING OF CUSTODIAL INTERROGATIONS.. WE ALSO ACTIVELY ADVOCATED FOR OTHER IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEMS IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND MINNESOTA.

  Expenses $870,148

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

12 August 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202432479349300713

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