GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

I80

Classification

1000

Street

229 19TH AVE S STE 285

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• 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. WE ALSO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO OUR CLIENTS AS THEY PLAN FOR THEIR HOMECOMING AND AS THEY MOVE FORWARD IN THEIR LIVES AFTER FREEDOM.

  Expenses $861,614

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,318,633

  Expenses

  $1,242,382

  Contributions

  $1,369,280

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,187,613

  Expenses

  $1,236,199

  Contributions

  $1,274,513

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $897,233

  Expenses

  $1,176,883

  Contributions

  $974,060

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $828,237

  Expenses

  $1,254,561

  Contributions

  $877,220

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,317,587

  Expenses

  $837,609

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,825,140

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,249,211

  Expenses

  $677,550

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,537,503

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $805,297

  Expenses

  $611,374

  Assets (EOY)

  $962,705

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $819,656

  Expenses

  $371,447

  Assets (EOY)

  $767,706

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $297,183

  Expenses

  $280,652

  Assets (EOY)

  $317,819

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $345,631

  Expenses

  $273,894

  Assets (EOY)

  $301,778

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $338,758

  Expenses

  $266,759

  Assets (EOY)

  $225,047

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $321,407

  Expenses

  $265,242

  Assets (EOY)

  $156,549

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $315,672

  Expenses

  $319,290

  Assets (EOY)

  $142,533

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $256,857

  Assets (EOY)

  $101,730

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $57,550

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS FOUNDATION

  $45,000

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $22,350

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $21,500

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $20,748

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION

  $15,958

  2022 · MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $14,614

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $14,300

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $12,700

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $12,331

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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