Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT
MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,567,395 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($709,522). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project does
Mission
To seek exoneration and release of persons who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit in the district of columbia, maryland and virginia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Screening and litigation of innocence claims - the project provides investigative and legal assistance to individuals who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit in the district of columbia, maryland, and virginia. The project receives about 20 new requests per month, screens several hundred cases per year, investigates at least 30 cases per year, and directly represents an additional 10-15 cases at a time. There is no fee charged to incarcerated individuals or their families for the project's services.
$995,872 spent85% of program spendingEducation and advocacy - the project educates the public and policy makers about the problem of wrongful convictions through published reports, testimony given before legislatures, media advocacy, and public events.
$108,613 spent9% of program spendingExoneree support - the project works to prepare clients for release from prison and assist them with the transition back into society, connecting them with both basic social services and organizations/professionals that can help them address their trauma.
$69,756 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,174,241.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $962k to $2.0M (+104%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2019 13% · 2021 14% · 2022 1% · 2023 10% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shawn Armbrust
Executive director
Board chair
Rebecca Brodey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $38k → $761k.
17 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
89% 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 MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 30% · 2021 21% · 2022 38% · 2023 37% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT is better cushioned than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $712k on record.
- Department of Justice$712k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT?
- MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,567,395 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($709,522). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,567,395 in grants to MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT?
- THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $709,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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