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NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS FOUNDATION

EIN 86-2065065 EAST LANSING, MI

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Revenue 2024
$875,380
Expenses 2024
$628,673

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
2000
Street
1020 GLENHAVEN AVE

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 · 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.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $875,380
    Expenses
    $628,673
    Contributions
    $743,158
    Grants paid
    $497,173
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $875,380
    Expenses
    $628,673
    Contributions
    $743,158
    Grants paid
    $497,173
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $875,380
    Expenses
    $628,673
    Contributions
    $743,158
    Grants paid
    $497,173
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $561,638
    Expenses
    $347,615
    Contributions
    $534,385
    Grants paid
    $304,880
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $366,786
    Expenses
    $418,000
    Contributions
    $354,930
    Grants paid
    $365,000

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
    $1,129,720
    Expenses
    $358,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $754,336

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.