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TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT

TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,833,776 to it, the largest being The Schooner Foundation ($1,279,605). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2024
45
Funders on record
$2.8M
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
28/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%

Against its field

TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($375k) Expenses 100 ($145k) Net assets 100 ($229k)2020 Revenue 100 ($376k) Expenses 171 ($248k) Net assets 156 ($357k)2021 Revenue 588 ($2.2M) Expenses 560 ($814k) Net assets 774 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 533 ($2.0M) Expenses 1039 ($1.5M) Net assets 985 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 427 ($1.6M) Expenses 926 ($1.3M) Net assets 1095 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 437 ($1.6M) Expenses 800 ($1.2M) Net assets 1304 ($3.0M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (437)Expenses (800)Net assets (1304)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

104% of TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,390 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$229k
19
$128k
20
$1.4M
21
$485k
22
$253k
23
$477k
24
22
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $231k → $507k.

11 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)16% 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 TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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

TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45%
largest funder
63%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 89% · 2020 87% · 2021 62% · 2022 30% · 2023 41%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

67% of TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.

NY
MA
RI
TN
MS
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
20
21
22
23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

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 45 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $673k on record.

Federal$673k
grants $673kcontracts $0
21
23
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$673k

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 TENNESSEE 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 Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 14%Fundraising 17%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE 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 TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT?
TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,833,776 to it, the largest being The Schooner Foundation ($1,279,605). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $2,833,776 in grants to TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT?
The Schooner Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,279,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 45funders 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