Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,533,591

Total expenses

$1,405,258

Contributions and grants received

$1,445,306

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$79,148

Investment income

$351

Other revenue

$8,786

Total assets, end of year

$1,794,172

Total liabilities, end of year

$381,148

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,413,024

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,240,278

Management and general expenses

$161,383

Fundraising expenses

$3,597

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,240,278

Program services were 88.3% 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 · 2023

• THE PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT PROTECTS AND ADVANCES THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE INCARCERATED IN PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH LITIGATION, ADVOCACY, AND LEGAL ADVICE. DURING FISCAL YEAR 2023-2024, PILP HANDLED 933 CASES FOR ELIGIBLE CLIENTS. PILP UPDATED ITS MISSION STATEMENT IN 2024 TO REFLECT PILP'S CURRENT WORK IN SEEKING TO ENSURE HUMANE CONDITIONS FOR INCARCERATED AND DETAINED PEOPLE IN PENNSYLVANIA.THIS PAST YEAR, PILP WAS EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING JUSTICE AND RELIEF FOR INCARCERATED PEOPLE THROUGH MEANINGFUL SETTLEMENTS. PILP ALSO OBTAINED A SETTLEMENT FOR: (1) TWO SEPARATE INDIVIDUAL MEN WHO HAD BEEN HELD IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR PROLONGED PERIODS DESPITE HAVING SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS, WHICH WAS EXACERBATED BY THE SEVERELY RESTRICTIVE CONDITIONS; (2) A MAN WHO WAS DOING WELL IN RECOVERY FROM OPIOID USE DISORDER IN A METHADONE PROGRAM, BUT WAS FORCED TO UNDERGO PAINFUL WITHDRAWAL AND AN INCREASED RISK OF OVERDOSE WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AND PLACED IN A COUNTY JAIL THAT HAD A BLANKET POLICY PROHIBITING THE CONTINUATION OF MEDICATIONS FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER; (3) THREE BLACK WOMEN IN A COUNTY JAIL WHO HAD ALL BEEN BRUTALLY ASSAULTED BY THE SAME WHITE SARGENT; (4) A MAN WHO SUFFERED FROM THE USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE BY PRISON GUARDS, INCLUDING BEING PEPPER SPRAYED IN THE FACE; AND (5) A WOMAN WHO WAS SEXUALLY ABUSED BY A PRISON GUARD.PILP HAD SEVERAL PROJECTS THAT IT CONTINUED TO WORK ON, IN INCLUDING A STORYTELLING PROJECT, TO FEATURE THE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY INCARCERATION AND OPIOID USE DISORDER. PILP IS WORKING ON INCREASING ACCESS TO LEGAL SERVICES FOR PEOPLE NEEDING ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE IN COUNTY JAILS IN THE NORTHEAST AREA OF PENNSYLVANIA, WITH A DISABILITY JUSTICE LENS. PILP ALSO HAS HONED IN ON SEEKING TO ELIMINATE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT THROUGH SEVERAL CLASS ACTION AND INDIVIDUAL CASES.IN MONITORING COUNTY JAILS, PILP AND ITS LEGAL PARTNERS FILED A MOTION FOR CONTEMPT IN ITS CLASS ACTION AGAINST THE PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF PRISONS. THE DIRE STAFFING RATIOS HAS CAUSED VISIBLE TRAUMA TO THE PEOPLE INCARCERATED THERE, DELAYS IN ACCESSING MEDICAL CARE, INCREASED USE OF FORCE AND VIOLENCE, MANY HOURS WHERE PEOPLE ARE UNABLE TO BE RELEASED FROM THEIR CELLS, DIRTY UNSANITARY CONDITIONS, AND MORE.PILP CONTINUED TO ADVOCATE, SUE, AND LITIGATE ON BEHALF OF INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS, WHETHER THEY WERE ASSAULTED, SEXUALLY ABUSED, OR SUBJECTED TO THE LACK OF MEDICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH CARE, PUNITIVE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CONDITIONS, OR DENIED RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS.

  Expenses $1,240,278 · Revenue $88,285

As filed on the 2023 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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

25 October 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202402999349301855

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