Kansas · Nonprofit
MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC
MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,619 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($79,835). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $359k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $324k
- Net assets
- $412k
What Miracle of Innocence Inc does
Mission
To vindicate and free from prison individuals who are factually innocent of the crimes for which they have been unjustly convicted and imprisoned. To provide services for exonerees as they reenter society - job placement medical needs education housing and similar services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal defense fund - provides funds and internal expertise to identify investigate and defend active cases for individuals wrongfully convicted and incarcerated. During 2025 there were 85 cases submitted with 48 cases meeting the criteria. Current in communications phase with 39 cases. two cases are active, 8 under research and developemt, 7 with legal support, 3 with critical investigative and legal resources and two cases approved for funding.
$30,434 spent9% of program spendingSocial Justice Education and Advocacy - Educates the general public about the injustice of wrongful convictions and the need to provide support and legal services to individuals currently incarcerated as well as those released and facing the challenges of re-entering society. In 2025 this was done through 98 public speaking and engagement activities and social media.
$192,612 spent59% of program spendingExoneree Comprehensive Care - Provided 98 exonerees with financial support and professional counseling for exonerated individuals to assist with essential purchases of clothing cell phones household items and transportation. This program is led by exonerated individuals who provide mentoring and counseling to current and formerly incarcerated individuals who were wrongfully convicted. Provided over 5000 hours of Exoneree community building and 10 participants at the 1st Exoneree retreat.
$102,720 spent32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $325,766.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $211k to $416k (+97%).
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: 2020 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Mark Zimmerman
Executive Director
Board chair
Edward Robertson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $22k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE 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
MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 85% · 2019 87% · 2020 49% · 2021 40% · 2022 37% · 2023 69% — 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
0% of MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 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
72% of MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC'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 $92k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC: 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 MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC?
- MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,619 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($79,835). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $323,619 in grants to MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $79,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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