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PARENTS OF MURDERED CHILDREN INC

EIN 31-1023437 CINCINNATI, OH

Revenue 2025
$220,767
Expenses 2025
$271,212

Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F61Z
Classification
1000
Street
635 W 7TH ST STE 307

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).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 5044), covering 40 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

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Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

POMC makes the difference through on-going emotional support, education, prevention, advocacy, and awareness. POMCs vision is to provide support and assistance to all survivors of homicide victims while working to create a world free of murder. POMC provides the on-going emotional support needed to help parents and other survivors facilitate the reconstruction of a "new life and to promote a healthy resolution. Not only does POMC help survivors deal with grief, but also helps with the criminal justice system.

  • All Other Program Service Accomplishments - POMC offers support and friendship to distressed parents and other persons who have experienced the death by murder of a loved one and to foster their physical and emotional health. To provide information about the grieving process and about the criminal justice system as it pertains to survivors. Communicate with and provide information to interested professionals in the fields of mental health, social work, community services, law enforcement, criminal justice education, medicine, religion, law, funeral services, etc. about the problems faced by survivors. Educate society at large and foster awareness of problems faced by homicide survivors.

    Expenses $132,572 · Revenue $306

  • National Conference Program - In 2025, hundreds of survivors gathered for the 39th Annual Parents of Murdered Children National Conference. The conference provided several workshops on traumatic grief, navigating the confusing maze of the judicial and investigative process. The POMC National Conference is specifically designed for families and friends of those who have died by violence.

    Expenses $87,005 · Revenue $79,700

  • Grief Retreat Weekends - Started in 2017 for families to attend a weekend in a Cincinnati retreat area. POMC rents a house at which, over the course of the weekend, individuals spend time on grief writing exercises. These exercises allow families to begin to deal with their emotions, especially their anger and frustration. Individuals who have been traumatized by a murder in their family have a hard time finding a new normal without their loved one, and this weekend helps by giving them comfort and hope for their future.

    Expenses $1,405 · Revenue $25

  • Second Opinion Services - The purpose of Second Opinion Services (S.O.S.) is to provide answers to questions and concerns regarding a death and subsequent investigation(s). Volunteer medical, law enforcement and investigative experts provide an independent objective viewpoint based on existing evidence and/or records submitted to POMC for review. Members of the S.O.S. evaluate materials, looking for evidence that needs to be followed up, findings that may have been misinterpreted, areas that need further investigation and inconsistencies or conflicting information. Although S.O.S. is not an investigative agency, its findings have caused many cases to be re-opened, provided valuable information and have solved several cold cases.

    Expenses $100 · Revenue $700

  • The Murder Wall...Honoring Their Memories is a traveling tribute honoring the memory of all murdered loved ones. The growing Wall carries the names of murder victims on engraved, solid walnut plaques. Each plaque contains 120 names, dates of birth and dates of death. Up to 40 names are added each year.

    Expenses $78 · Revenue $775

  • Parents Of Murdered Children, Inc.'s Parole Block Program strives to give survivors a sense of control, as well as a positive outlet for the anger, frustration and disillusionment with the criminal justice system. PBP allows them to participate in the parole process by attempting to keep murderers behind bars for their minimum sentence, thus protecting society from potential repeat offenders. Every day in the United States, convicted criminals are released back into society long before their sentence is ever served.

    Revenue $336

  • National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims - Survivors and supporters across the country joined together the week of September 25, 2025, for POMC's 19th Annual National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims to remember their murdered loved ones. The National POMC website, for 24 hours, views the names of victims from across the country. On September 25th, we as a nation, state and community recognize the devastating impact of homicide on our families, friends and nation as a whole. The National Day of Remembrance is held each year on September 25th, the anniversary date of Lisa Hullingers death. Lisa was the 19-year-old daughter of Robert and Charlotte Hullinger, POMC founders. House Resolution 223 was introduced in an effort to get POMCs National Day of Remembrance proclaimed by Congress. The Resolution passed the House in May of 2007 and passed the Senate in October 2007.

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.

  • Beverly J Warnock

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $56,900
    From this org
    $56,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • James Gorski

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Beckie Miller

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Colleen Fernald Peterson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lori King

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cornelius Lewis

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cathy Familathe

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leslie Boone

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Connie Sheely

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Martha Lasher-Warner

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $220,767
    Expenses
    $271,212
    Contributions
    $101,614
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $280,259
    Expenses
    $319,791
    Contributions
    $121,689
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $260,247
    Expenses
    $279,979
    Contributions
    $109,990
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $254,116
    Expenses
    $247,879
    Contributions
    $143,366
    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
    $325,795
    Expenses
    $259,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $442,191

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $210,087
    Expenses
    $179,303
    Assets (EOY)
    $374,263

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,425
    Expenses
    $277,213
    Assets (EOY)
    $351,323

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $252,081
    Expenses
    $278,386
    Assets (EOY)
    $302,323

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $370,853
    Expenses
    $282,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $329,435

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $277,647
    Expenses
    $293,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $236,348

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $303,925
    Expenses
    $297,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,340

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $293,866
    Expenses
    $303,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $252,774

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $245,315
    Expenses
    $255,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,176

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $335,929
    Assets (EOY)
    $264,655

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

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 GROUP.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.