Innocence Delaware Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830955654
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Wilmington, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3024772215
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $486,466
- Expenses
- $332,028
- Assets
- $378,299
- Liabilities
- $625
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Claudia Trupp (Executive Director (until 4/24))
- Judith Ritter Esq (President)
- Herb Mondros Esq (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- James Moreno (ED (from 4/24); Sec (until 4/24)): $112,950 total reported compensation
- Claudia Trupp (Executive Director (until 4/24)): $37,381 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Innocence Delaware provides pro bono services to investigate and, where appropriate, seek relief for claims of wrongful convictions. It also provides post-exoneration support to individuals who have been proven innocent. Innocence Delaware addresses and looks to remedy the causes for wrongful convictions: official misconduct, bad science, eyewitness misidentification and prejudice. When not working with specific individuals, the project helps educate the public about potential criminal justice reforms related to wrongful conviction and exoneration, as well as access to justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Innocence Delaware (ID) is a 501(c)(3) with a mission to free the innocent of Delaware. ID provides pro bono legal services to clients who meet our criteria for acceptance, namely, that they are wrongly convicted of state or federal crimes in the state of Delaware, that they are innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted, and new evidence of innocence currently exists or is discoverable. ID engages in case screening, investigation, and litigation of innocence cases.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 74.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $330K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.