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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “exonerates”
Where the money went
Leo Model FoundationPhiladelphia, PA
6 matching grants · $105,000 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS FOUNDATION — support for exonerations of innocent criminal defendants
Prosecutor Accountability ProjectGreensboro, NCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $30,000 · through 2023Largest: $20,000 to NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS — support of research on exonerations and reasons for exonerations in the united states.
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsOakland, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $330,000 · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to Exonerated Nation Inc — supporting mental health & wellbeing among exonere
Largest: $30,000 to PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT — exonerates those falsly convicted
Largest: $100,000 to THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — funds will support the legal team representing clients in texas and florida, and for social work and direct financial support for exonerated people in those states through their ex…
Largest: $7,500 to CENTURION MINISTRIES INC — exonerate incnt life-sntcd prisoners
Largest: $10,000 to TN INNOCENCE PROJECT BRAD MACLEAN — exonerate innocent victims
Catholic Community FoundationGlendale, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $614,000 · through 2023Largest: $375,000 to UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC — the wardlaw family exoneration justice clinic supervising attorney
Criminal Justice Reform FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $35,000 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to PURDUE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND POST-EXONERATION — regrant to partner with cjrf mission
The Story Garschina Foundation Co Kenneth GarschinaNew York, NY
2 matching grants · $30,000 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to THE INNOCENCE PROJECT — to support a non-profit legal organization that works to exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals through dna testing and reform the criminal justice system.
Tides CenterSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $60,000 · through 2022Largest: $30,000 to RESURRECTION AFTER EXONERATION 2 0 — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Forensic Justice ProjectPortland, ORCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $20,000 · through 2025Largest: $10,000 to NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERAT — grant to support exonerations
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →