Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT
NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT (Massachusetts) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,244,145 to it, the largest being Lakeshore Foundation dated April 5 2011 ($4,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 694 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 694 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio match
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 19% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 10% · 2021 5% · 2022 11% · 2023 16% · 2024 16% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $21k → $859k.
12 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 89% · 2019 68% · 2020 72% · 2021 59% · 2022 61% · 2023 58% — 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
41% of NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 57 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 68 organizations near you
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Bar Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for the Improvement of Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Justice Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forward Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fundshared funderslocalMA · backs 113 organizations that share your funders · funds 233 organizations near you
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalMA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 186 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record — $300k federal, $984k state.
- Department of Justice$300k
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$734k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$250k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$500
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$210
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 NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 NEW ENGLAND 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT?
- NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT (Massachusetts) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,244,145 to it, the largest being Lakeshore Foundation dated April 5 2011 ($4,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $6,244,145 in grants to NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT?
- Lakeshore Foundation dated April 5 2011 is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 57funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing