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POST-CONVICTION ADVOCATES

EIN 92-2523440 LONG BEACH, CA

Revenue 2024
$542,271
Expenses 2024
$510,633

Program services were 83.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
5318 E 2ND ST

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

Post-Conviction Advocates fights to free the unjustly incarcerated and provide support to those reentering society after decades behind bars. Together a formidable team of lawyers legal fellows formerly incarcerated people criminal-legal policy experts people directly impacted by the system and volunteers have years of experience in post-conviction investigation legal research and litigation. Our mission to liberate the innocent and unfairly sentenced.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Freeing the unjustly incarcerated. Amplifying stolen voices and rebuilding lives.

  • Number of innocent people freed from prison in 2024: 4 Post-Conviction Advocates received The Riders Club Award in December 2024. Post-Conviction Advocates educated and trained 20 law students on wrongful conviction and the Racial Justice Act and the litigation of these legal claims. Megan Denkers Baca developed the curriculum for this program at the California Western School of Law in San Diego.

    Expenses $427,597

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.

  • Megan Denkers Baca

    President

    Total calculated
    $111,313
    From this org
    $111,313
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    42

  • Dwight Jones Jr

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Megan Bradley

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Arianne Aparicio

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Susan Mellen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Clifton Jones

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Brittney Burns Tucker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Janet Dixon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $542,271
    Expenses
    $510,633
    Contributions
    $82,958
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $45,140
    Expenses
    $100,151
    Contributions
    $21,248
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Megan Baca
Mailing address
5318 E 2nd St STE 999Long Beach CA 90803
Website
https://www.postconvictionadvocates.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.