- Revenue 2023
- $1,318,977
- Expenses 2023
- $1,304,643
Program services were 96.8% 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
- 7214 ST CHARLES AVE CAMPUS BOX 9
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 · 2023
Mission
THE CAPITAL APPEALS PROJECT IS A NON-PROFIT LAW OFFICE THAT PROVIDES DIRECT APPEAL REPRESENTATION TO INDIGENT INMATES ON DEATH ROW.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE CAPITAL APPEALS PROJECT IS A NON-PROFIT LAW OFFICE THAT PROVIDES DIRECT APPEAL TRIAL MONITORING, JUVENILE LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE, AND POST-CONVICTION APPEAL REPRESENTATION TO INDIGENT INMATES ON DEATH ROW. THE CAPITAL APPEALS PROJECT ALSO PROVIDES OTHER KINDS OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE REPRESENTATION AT THE BEHEST OF THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC DEFENDER BOARD.
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TO REPRESENT ALL DEFENDANTS IN LOUISIANA ON DIRECT APPEAL OF A CONVICTION AND DEATH SENTENCE, AND TO SUPPORT THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC DEFENDER BOARD IN TAKING ON ANY NECESSARY POSTCONVICTION CASES, RIGHTS REPRESENTATION, JUVENILE LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE, OR PRE-TRIAL CONSULTATION THEY REQUIRE.
Expenses $1,262,530 · Revenue $21
As filed on the 2023 return.
Officers and directors · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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JANCY HOEFFEL
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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MELANIE CARR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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UNA DEAN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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REBECCA HUDSMITH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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SOREN GISLESON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
DENISE LEBOEUF
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
WILBERT RIDEAU
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
JUDGE CALVIN JOHNSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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ANDREA ARMSTRONG
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
CECELIA KAPPEL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $135,807
- From this org
- $110,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $25,807
- Hours/week
- 50
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
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,318,977
- Expenses
- $1,304,643
- Contributions
- $1,318,956
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,195,768
- Expenses
- $1,311,713
- Contributions
- $1,187,831
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,203,555
- Expenses
- $1,451,962
- Assets (EOY)
- $230,336
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,376,488
- Expenses
- $1,349,635
- Assets (EOY)
- $558,928
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,749,859
- Expenses
- $1,553,228
- Assets (EOY)
- $488,656
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,174,696
- Expenses
- $1,376,363
- Assets (EOY)
- $215,487
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,303,858
- Expenses
- $1,350,816
- Assets (EOY)
- $422,006
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,129,413
- Expenses
- $1,139,218
- Assets (EOY)
- $455,965
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,179,207
- Expenses
- $1,170,954
- Assets (EOY)
- $469,203
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,578,680
- Expenses
- $1,589,564
- Assets (EOY)
- $478,372
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,246,722
- Expenses
- $1,362,943
- Assets (EOY)
- $468,710
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,407,318
- Assets (EOY)
- $603,140
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
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MINISTRY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
$200,000
2024 ASSIST IN APPEALS FOR PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW
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THE JOHN PAUL STEVENS FOUNDATION
$19,500
2022 Public Interest Fellowships
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THE JOHN PAUL STEVENS FOUNDATION
$13,000
2025 Public Interest Fellowships
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2024 Public Interest Fellowships
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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.