New York · Nonprofit
FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC
FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,500 to it, the largest being NEW YORK FOUNDATION ($268,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $567k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Families of the Wrongfully Convicted Inc does
Mission
Families of the wrongfully convicted is a grassroots advocacy effort to raise public awareness about the incidence of wrongful convictions, the plight of families of those who are currently incarcerated, and provide support to men and women who have been paroled and those exonerated. Our mission includes supporting policies and procedures on the local, state and federal level which will help prevent future wrongful convictions. To identify those elements that lead to wrongful convictions and seek criminal justice reform. We seek to be a resource to families of those who currently reside in prison, as well as for those men and women who have been recently released, providing advice and help with issues that impact the ability to successfully re-enter society. We also wish to and help those individuals who continue seek to overturn their convictions. Finally, we seek to network with other criminal justice reform groups and those organizations working on behalf of the wrongfully convicted
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Families of the wrongfully convicted is a grassroots advocacy effort to raise public awareness about the incidence of wrongful convictions, the plight of families of those who are currently incarcerated, and provide support to men and women who have been paroled and those exonerated. Our mission includes supporting policies and procedures on the local, state and federal level which will help prevent future wrongful convictions. To identify those elements that lead to wrongful convictions and seek criminal justice reform. We seek to be a resource to families of those who currently reside in prison, as well as for those men and women who have been recently released, providing advice and help with issues that impact the ability to successfully re-enter society. We also wish to and help those individuals who continue seek to overturn their convictions. Finally, we seek to network with other criminal justice reform groups and those organizations working on behalf of the wrongfully convicted.
$109,145 spent63% of program spendingA youth program was for summer youth employment program and we had a gun violence program with nycha for the young adults
$63,037 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $172,182.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $43k to $27k (−39%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Ila Novostaskfy
Chairman of
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $138k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 64% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 19,864 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC?
- FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,500 to it, the largest being NEW YORK FOUNDATION ($268,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $566,500 in grants to FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC?
- NEW YORK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $268,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing