INNOCENCE PROJECT OF TEXAS

EIN 20-5992659 FORT WORTH, TX

Revenue 2025: $1,384,922
Expenses 2025: $1,174,046

Program services were 73.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: S20
Classification: 1000
Street: 300 BURNETT ST STE 160

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

Innocence Project of Texas (IPTX) is a nonprofit human service organization that provides legal and investigative assistance to low-income Texas citizens who were convicted of crimes they did not commit.

Casework - IPTX provided first-rate legal counsel and investigative services at no cost to over 1,000 applicants.

Expenses $747,672 · Grants $1,980
Outreach & Education - IPTX provided training on innocence work to 25 law students and educated over 500 legal professionals and community members about wrongful convictions.

Expenses $113,654

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.

Mike Ware

Executive Dir.

Total calculated

$126,142

From this org

$126,142

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Mel LeRoy

Managing Director

Total calculated

$123,435

From this org

$102,452

From related orgs

$0

Other

$20,983

Hours/week

40
Brady Edwards

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lael Brodsky

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jackson Edwards

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lisa Greenberg

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ian Dowl

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Logan Free

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Leslie MacLean

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michelle Staubach Grimes

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
John Mimbela

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Elizabeth Ramirez

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Debra Spencer

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jenae Ward

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael Harrison

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Elsa Alcala

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Stefanie Alexander

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jenny Saphier

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Monty Free

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Danielle Rohr

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Chauntelle Wood

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

2025

Revenue

$1,384,922

Expenses

$1,174,046

Contributions

$1,318,729

Grants paid

$1,980
2024

Revenue

$1,290,254

Expenses

$1,069,264

Contributions

$1,239,848

Grants paid

$1,222
2023

Revenue

$1,083,658

Expenses

$993,989

Contributions

$1,047,347

Grants paid

$9,786
2022

Revenue

$917,731

Expenses

$821,202

Contributions

$922,977

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$1,384,922	$1,174,046	$1,318,729	$1,980
2024	$1,290,254	$1,069,264	$1,239,848	$1,222
2023	$1,083,658	$993,989	$1,047,347	$9,786
2022	$917,731	$821,202	$922,977	$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

$900,684

Expenses

$724,069

Assets (EOY)

$1,354,640
2020 · 990

Revenue

$1,414,184

Expenses

$500,065

Assets (EOY)

$1,219,810
2019 · 990

Revenue

$496,010

Expenses

$497,579

Assets (EOY)

$244,441
2017 · 990

Revenue

$315,770

Expenses

$558,442

Assets (EOY)

$147,285
2016 · 990

Revenue

$768,464

Expenses

$437,684

Assets (EOY)

$389,960
2015 · 990

Revenue

$282,212

Expenses

$248,671

Assets (EOY)

$69,360
2014 · 990

Revenue

$210,407

Expenses

$231,167

Assets (EOY)

$25,202
2013 · 990

Revenue

$411,059

Expenses

$450,584

Assets (EOY)

$52,512
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$383,124

Assets (EOY)

$89,511
2011 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$293,145

Assets (EOY)

$104,343

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$900,684	$724,069	$1,354,640
2020	990	$1,414,184	$500,065	$1,219,810
2019	990	$496,010	$497,579	$244,441
2017	990	$315,770	$558,442	$147,285
2016	990	$768,464	$437,684	$389,960
2015	990	$282,212	$248,671	$69,360
2014	990	$210,407	$231,167	$25,202
2013	990	$411,059	$450,584	$52,512
2012	990	not reported	$383,124	$89,511
2011	990	not reported	$293,145	$104,343

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

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$56,320

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND

$40,000

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$33,020

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$31,821

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
PANONICA FOUNDATION

$25,000

2024 support for freeing wrongly convicted persons
TEXAS BAR FOUNDATION

$25,000

2023 Assist w/incrng costs for forensic
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

$25,000

2024 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$22,174

2024 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$21,798

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
TEXAS BAR FOUNDATION

$20,000

2022 Legal assist prgrm

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.