Form 990 for tax year 2022

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2022 , filed 26 October 2023. 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.

Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.

Totals

Total revenue

$4,900,239

Total expenses

$3,722,016

Contributions and grants received

$4,852,090

Grants paid

$184,120

Program service revenue

$9,260

Investment income

$38,889

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$8,351,605

Total liabilities, end of year

$691,738

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$7,659,867

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,871,754

Management and general expenses

$312,676

Fundraising expenses

$537,586

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,871,754

Program services were 77.2% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• RESEARCH AND PUBLIC EDUCATION: THE ORGANIZATION MONITORS THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND PRODUCES RESEARCH AND POLICY ANALYSES TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE IMPACT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAWS, POLICIES, AND PRACTICES. FINDINGS ARE SHARED THROUGH HIGHLY VISIBLE PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS THAT INCLUDE EARNED MEDIA, WEBINARS, NEWSLETTERS, ACTION ALERTS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA. POLICY PRIORITIES INCLUDE EXTREME SENTENCING, VOTING RIGHTS, YOUTH JUSTICE, AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES.

  Expenses $411,915 · Revenue $5,075

• VOTING RIGHTS: THE ORGANIZATION IS A LEADER IN NATIONAL EFFORTS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF JUSTICE-INVOLVED PEOPLE, THE RACIALLY DISPARATE IMPACTS OF CURRENT FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND JAIL PRACTICES, AND THE NEED TO IMPLEMENT UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FOR ALL CITIZENS IN ORDER TO END THE ROLE OF THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN MEDIATING THE CENTRAL RIGHT OF VOTING IN A DEMOCRACY. IT WORKS AT THE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL TO ADVOCATE FOR FULL VOTING RIGHTS FOR INDIVIDUALS IN JAIL, PRISON, AND THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF CONVICTION STATUS.

  Expenses $537,869 · Grants $39,000

• EXTREME SENTENCING: THE ORGANIZATION PLAYS A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN CAMPAIGNS AND COALITIONS AT THE NATIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVEL IN SUPPORT OF POLICIES THAT EXPAND THE USE OF POST-CONVICTION RELEASE MECHANISMS, ELIMINATE VIRTUAL LIFE SENTENCES AND LIFE SENTENCES WITHOUT PAROLE, CAP SENTENCES AT 20 YEARS, AND FOSTER A CULTURE THAT REJECTS EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT IN FAVOR OF RESTORATIVE APPROACHES TO SAFETY. THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCES CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH AND PROMOTES MEDIA AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT ON SENTENCING POLICIES, REFORMS, AND IMPACTS TO FOSTER A SHIFT IN THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE AROUND EXTREME SENTENCES.

  Expenses $1,228,354 · Grants $102,000

• POLICY REFORM ADVOCACY: THE ORGANIZATION ADVOCATES AT THE FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVEL FOR REDUCING THE USE OF INCARCERATION TO ADDRESS CRIME, DECREASING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN PRISON IN FAVOR OF MORE COMMUNITY-BASED SOLUTIONS, REFORMING SENTENCING POLICIES THAT PRODUCE MASS INCARCERATION AND RACIAL, GENDER OR ECONOMIC INJUSTICE, EXPANDING AND RESTORING VOTING RIGHTS TO AMERICANS WITH CONVICTIONS, AND PROTECTING YOUTH FROM THE ADULT CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM.

  Expenses $251,691

• YOUTH JUSTICE: THE ORGANIZATION WORKS TO SAFEGUARD YOUTH FROM THE RAVAGES OF THE ADULT CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM AND EXPLORE ALTERNATIVES TO YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN BOTH THE JUVENILE AND ADULT JUSTICE SYSTEMS. IN ADDITION TO ADVOCATING FOR AN END TO POLICIES THAT TRANSFER YOUTH TO THE ADULT CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM, THE ORGANIZATION ADVOCATES FOR THE SHIELDING OF MINORS FROM AVOIDABLE INVOLVEMENT IN THE YOUTH JUSTICE SYSTEM, INCLUDING ENDING THE PRESENCE OF POLICE IN SCHOOLS, AND PROMOTING TREATMENT-BASED APPROACHES TO YOUTHFUL BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS RATHER THAN PUNISHMENT. IN ALL THIS WORK A RACIAL JUSTICE LENS IS PARAMOUNT.

  Expenses $441,925 · Grants $43,120

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• TOGETHER LOUISIANA

  $25,000

  THIS ORGANIZATION IS LED BY IMPACTED PERSONS ACROSS LA, WITH GROUND ORGANIZERS WORKING ACROSS THE STATE. WE HAVE FUNDED CIVIC EDUCATION ACADEMIES ON LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE AND ELDER PAROLE WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN EVERY PARISH, FOCUSING ON RURAL PARISHES WITH IMPACTED COMMUNITIES THAT ARE OFTEN NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WORK. THOSE PARISHES ALSO OVERLAP WITH POWERFUL DECISION-MAKERS IN THE LA STATE LEGISLATURE. THE SENTENCING PROJECT PARTICIPATES IN WEEKLY PLANNING MEETINGS TO HELP GUIDE CAMPAIGN STRATEGY AND OFFER OUR COMMUNICATIONS FOR MEDIA PRESSURE AND NARRATIVE CHANGE.

• RELEASE AGING PEOPLE IN PRISON (RAPP)

  $20,000

  THE GRANTEE SHALL USE THE GRANT FUNDS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING THE GRANTEE'S NON-PARTISAN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE GRANTOR'S EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON ELIMINATING THE USE OF MANDATORY LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE SENTENCES, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON AGING PERSONS. SPECIFICALLY, THIS GRANT WOULD ALLOW FOR MONTHLY SUPPORT STIPENDS FOR FOUR DIRECTLY IMPACTED COMMUNITY LEADERS IN SYRACUSE AND BUFFALO. THROUGH OUTREACH AND ORGANIZING, RAPP WILL RECRUIT CANDIDATES, AND AFTER A SERIES OF TRAINING, THEY WILL HELP LEAD OUR WORK BY PARTICIPATING IN TOWN HALLS, DOOR-TO-DOOR CANVASSING, PRESS CONFERENCES, AND OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS. WITH THE SUPPORT OF THESE FOUR COMMUNITY LEADERS, RAPP WILL ENGAGE IN THE AFOREMENTIONED TACTICS AND EVENTS AS A MEANS OF GROWING OUR BASE OF DIRECTLY IMPACTED PEOPLE AND RECRUITING AND TRAINING NEW LEADERS IN OUR WORK TO END EXTREME SENTENCES.

• WYOMING CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC

  $15,000

  LAUNCHING A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE WYOMING YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION BY ENGAGING IMPACTED YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH OUTREACH, PUBLIC EDUCATION, TRAINING, STORYTELLING AND COALITION PARTICIPATION.

• TOGETHER MAKING A BETTER COMMUNITY

  $15,000

  1) LAUNCHING THE CHANGE THE NARRATIVE PROJECT TO RECRUIT, TRAIN, AND LAUNCH A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN THAT CENTERS IMPACTED BIPOC YOUTH AND THEIR STORIES ABOUT BEING INVOLVED IN THE YOUTH JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND WHAT THEIR HOPES ARE FOR CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ABOUT WHO THEY ARE; 2) CREATE & LAUNCH A ROBUST SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE PERVASIVE RACIAL DISPARITIES THAT EXIST IN DAVENPORT'S YOUTH JUSTICE SYSTEM AND CALL FOR MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS TO ADDRESS YOUTH MISBEHAVIOR; 3) PUBLIC EDUCATION: LAUNCH AN EVENT THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE CAMPAIGN AND STORIES GATHERED TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON BETTER INVESTMENTS FOR YOUTH.

• STAND IN FOR NEBRASKA

  $12,000

  THE CAMPAIGN WILL GENERATE CONCRETE INITIATIVES TO HEIGHTEN PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE STATE'S RELIANCE ON EXCESSIVE SENTENCING. ENGAGING THE PUBLIC AND OTHER NOTABLE STAKEHOLDERS ON VARIOUS TOPICS TO EDUCATE ON THE REAL IMPACTS AND OUTCOMES OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY IN NEBRASKA, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HOSTING A SERIES OF VIRTUAL PANELS ON VARIOUS TOPICS INCLUDING EXTREME AND LIFE SENTENCES. IN-PERSON TEACH-INS AT CHURCHES AND PRISONS TO FURTHER COMMUNITY AND IN-PRISON OUTREACH.

• BRIDGE MARYLAND INC

  $10,000

  EXPANDING CAPACITY THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT TO AID IN ADVANCING THE ADVOCACY PRIORITIES OF THE COALITION'S FOUR PRIORITY AREAS. HAVING SOMEONE DEDICATED TO OP-ED STRATEGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO ELEVATE THE COALITION PRIORITIES, WOULD INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF THE ORGANIZATION.

• ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES AND JUSTICE

  $10,000

  NEW YORK FOR FULL RESTORATION OF VOTING RIGHTS COALITION 1) PUBLIC EDUCATION & MOBILIZATION; 2) COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA OUTREACH; AND 3) TECHNOLOGY, EQUIPMENT AND DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM.

• ACLU-RI

  $10,000

  THIS GRANT, GIVEN THROUGH THE ACLU OF RHODE ISLAND, HIRED A FULL-TIME ORGANIZER TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND GARNER PARTNERS TO END LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN RHODE ISLAND. THIS EFFORT HAS BROUGHT 75 COMMUNITY PARTNERS (DIRECTLY IMPACTED) AND 36 ESTABLISHED PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS INTO THE PROCESS OF REPEALING LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. WIDESPREAD IGNORANCE OF THIS SENTENCE HAS ALLOWED IT TO CONTINUE IN AN INTERCONNECTED COMMUNITY THAT IS NOW SHOWING A HIGH LEVEL OF SUPPORT FOR ITS REPEAL. IT HAS ALSO BROUGHT MANY NATIONALLY AND LOCALLY KNOWN EXPERTS TO THE TABLE WHO ARE NOW PUBLICLY COMMENTING ON THEIR DESIRE TO REPEAL THIS SENTENCE. OF THE 25 PERSONS SERVING LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN RI, WE HAVE CONNECTED WITH AT LEAST 1 FAMILY MEMBER OR SUPPORTER PER INCARCERATED PERSON, AND IN SOME CASES, AS MANY AS 10, WHOSE STORIES HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AND ARE BEING SHARED WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY TO SHOW THE IMPACT OF THIS TERRIBLE SENTENCE.

• WOODS WYATT DURHAM FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  SPECIFICALLY, THIS GRANT WILL BE USED TO PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE CORRECTIVE CLEMENCY CAMPAIGN MATERIALS TO 1700+ INCARCERATED MEMBERS ACROSS THE STATE, AND THEREBY HELP MOBILIZE BOTH INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND THEIR LOVED ONES TO SHARE THEIR STORIES IN SUPPORT OF THIS CAMPAIGN. THE GRANT ALSO WILL BE USED TO HIRE AN ORGANIZER FOR 6 MONTHS WHO CAN FOCUS ON THE CCC. THE ORGANIZER WILL SERVE AS A CONTACT PERSON FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE CAMPAIGN, INCLUDING THOSE CURRENTLY INCARCERATED. THEY WILL MAINTAIN THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE OUTSIDE TEAM MEMBERS, TRAIN THEM ON HOW TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT EXTREME SENTENCING IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND ORGANIZE TOWN HALLS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS AT WHICH DIRECTLY IMPACTED PEOPLE CAN SHARE THEIR STORIES.

• NEW LIFE WORSHIP CENTER

  $10,000

  THE FULL CITIZENS COALITION POPULATION; ORGANIZING CIVIC EDUCATION WORKSHOPS AND OUTREACH TRAININGS AT HALFWAY HOUSES; TRAIN AND HIRE IMPACTED PERSONS FROM THE HALFWAY HOUSE TO WORK ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION AROUND ITS CAMPAIGN FOR UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN THE STATE; AT LARGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ON THE ISSUE OF FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT, LED AND FIELDED BY PERSONS ON PAROLE/IMPACTED.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

19 September 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202312689349300211

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