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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by PRISON BOOK PROGRAM.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 14 May 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Listed under a different title

  • Alison Demong: DIRECTOR then PRESIDENT
  • Ellen Lubell: PRESIDENT then DIRECTOR

Totals

Total revenue
$437,829
Total expenses
$379,201
Contributions and grants received
$404,790
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$1,715
Investment income
$31,324
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$786,199
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$786,199
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$336,221
Management and general expenses
$34,801
Fundraising expenses
$8,179
Program service expenses (Part III)
$336,221

Program services were 88.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $404,790

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MERCHANDISE SALES

    total $1,715 · related or exempt $1,715

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $31,324 · unrelated business $31,324

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $131,484 · program services $131,484

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $5,259 · program services $5,259

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $6,023 · program services $6,023

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $17,185 · program services $17,185

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $5,250 · management and general $5,250

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,493 · management and general $1,493

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $9,016 · management and general $9,016

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $6,000 · management and general $6,000

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,166 · management and general $1,166

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,775 · management and general $1,775

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,057 · management and general $3,057

  • 24a · Other expenses: POSTAGE/SHIPPING

    total $103,015 · program services $101,703 · management and general $234 · fundraising $1,078

  • 24b · Other expenses: BOOK PURCHASES

    total $46,402 · program services $46,402

  • 24c · Other expenses: PROGRAM EXPENSE

    total $21,905 · program services $21,905

  • 24d · Other expenses: CONTRACT SERVICES

    total $6,291 · management and general $1,782 · fundraising $4,509

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $13,880 · program services $6,260 · management and general $5,028 · fundraising $2,592

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $719,777 · end of year $760,551

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $12,423

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $1,775

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $10,648

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $15,000 · end of year $15,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $7,205 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $727,572 · end of year $766,959

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    end of year $19,240

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO SUPPORT PEOPLE IN PRISON BY SENDING THEM FREE, HIGH-QUALITY BOOKS AND READING MATERIALS THAT MEET THEIR SPECIFIC NEEDS AND INTERESTS, AND TO PROVIDE AN ENGAGING VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE THAT CONNECTS PEOPLE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM.

  • MAILED PACKAGES OF BOOKS TO APPROXIMATELY 18,000 PRISONERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

    Expenses $329,842 · Revenue $379,171

  • ALBERT WOODFOX MEMORIAL MINI FREEDOM LIBRARIES. MINI LIBRARY CONSISTING OF 30 BOOKS THAT HELP PEOPLE FIND HOPE, PURPOSE AND TRANSFORMATION IN DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES. THE BOOKS ARE ENTRUSTED TO THE CARE OF AN INCARCERATED LIBRARIAN,WHO CIRCULATES THEM AND MORE IMPORTANTLY ENSURES THAT THEY ARE DISCUSSED, PRISONER-TO-PRISONER, AS PEOPLE TRY TO GROW AND BETTER THEMSELVES.

    Expenses $4,879 · Revenue $5,725

  • PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION OF A BOOK CALLED 'INSIDER'S GUIDE TO JAILHOUSE LAW' WHICH IS FREE LEGAL RESOURCE FOR INCACERATED PEOPLE THAT PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL OVERIVEW OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND IT DISCUSESS IMPORTANT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES.

    Expenses $1,500 · Revenue $19,894

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Pam Boiros

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Timothy Riser

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amy Corbett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alison Demong

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin Enriquez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Timothy Olson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ellen Lubell

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Timothy Cross

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
13 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202541339349304649

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