MIDWESTERN INNOCENCE PROJECT INC

EIN 43-1914499 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2025: $1,041,263
Expenses 2025: $1,315,235

Program services were 67.3% 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: 300 E 39TH 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 · 2025

Mission

TO EDUCATE ABOUT, ADVOCATE FOR, AND OBTAIN AND SUPPORT THE EXONERATION AND RELEASE OF WRONGFULLY CONVICTED PEOPLE IN ARKANSAS, IOWA, KANSAS, MISSOURI, AND NEBRASKA.

SCREEN INMATE REQUESTS FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE, PROVIDED PRO-BONO LEGAL AND INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES FOR CLIENTS WITH CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE, SUPPORT SERVICES FOR EXONERESS, AND PROVIDED PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH EVENTS, POLICY ADVOCASY, SPEAKERS, AND WEBSITE.

Expenses $885,748

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

TAHIR ATWATER

EXECUTIVE DI

Total calculated

$79,813

From this org

$74,783

From related orgs

$0

Other

$5,030

Hours/week

40
STEPHANE BRADLEY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LIZ COLE

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ERICA NICHOLS COOK

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MATT GEIGER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BRANDEN HARALSON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
PRESTON HERMAN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MATT JACOBER

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
KRISTA KLAUS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CARLANDA MCKINNEY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KALA MUELLER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JENNIFER NICHOLSON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KEN NIXON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
WILLY PEGUES

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
JEAN PHILLIPS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EZE REDWOOD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CLAYTON REID

PAST PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LINDSAY RUNNELS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
VERONICA SELLERS

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
WILL SHIELDS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JULIE SHULL

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KATIE SINQUEFELD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
AMANDA SISNEY

VICE PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
PETE SMITH

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JONATHAN STEELE

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

The first 25 listed. 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

$1,041,263

Expenses

$1,315,235

Contributions

$968,962

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$1,730,314

Expenses

$2,009,638

Contributions

$1,754,000

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$2,641,743

Expenses

$2,825,371

Contributions

$2,674,846

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$1,834,935

Expenses

$2,160,176

Contributions

$1,883,306

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$1,041,263	$1,315,235	$968,962	$0
2024	$1,730,314	$2,009,638	$1,754,000	$0
2023	$2,641,743	$2,825,371	$2,674,846	$0
2022	$1,834,935	$2,160,176	$1,883,306	$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

$2,359,847

Expenses

$1,305,212

Assets (EOY)

$3,283,292
2020 · 990

Revenue

$913,436

Expenses

$737,902

Assets (EOY)

$540,576
2019 · 990

Revenue

$682,758

Expenses

$705,128

Assets (EOY)

$363,499
2018 · 990

Revenue

$585,269

Expenses

$717,221

Assets (EOY)

$383,769
2017 · 990

Revenue

$610,709

Expenses

$628,614

Assets (EOY)

$520,141
2016 · 990

Revenue

$1,026,867

Expenses

$590,370

Assets (EOY)

$536,063
2015 · 990

Revenue

$255,895

Expenses

$505,354

Assets (EOY)

$105,130
2014 · 990

Revenue

$294,862

Expenses

$290,682

Assets (EOY)

$333,616
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$369,362

Assets (EOY)

$329,304
2011 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$442,827

Assets (EOY)

$213,184

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$2,359,847	$1,305,212	$3,283,292
2020	990	$913,436	$737,902	$540,576
2019	990	$682,758	$705,128	$363,499
2018	990	$585,269	$717,221	$383,769
2017	990	$610,709	$628,614	$520,141
2016	990	$1,026,867	$590,370	$536,063
2015	990	$255,895	$505,354	$105,130
2014	990	$294,862	$290,682	$333,616
2012	990	not reported	$369,362	$329,304
2011	990	not reported	$442,827	$213,184

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

$502,845

2023 HUMAN SERVICES
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$118,050

2022 HUMAN SERVICES
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$87,350

2024 HUMAN SERVICES
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$85,250

2024 Human Services
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION

$30,000

2022 SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$26,472

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI

$25,000

2024
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

$25,000

2024 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$17,462

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$16,950

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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