PRISON LAW OFFICE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

I80M

Classification

1000

Street

1917 5TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE PRISON LAW OFFICE IS COMMITTED TO PROTECTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE INCARCERATED IN CALIFORNIA AND BEYOND, FOSTERING ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION AND INCREASING COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OF CORRECTIONAL ISSUES.

  Expenses $6,167,669 · Revenue $10,256,054

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $12,850,528

  Expenses

  $7,643,924

  Contributions

  $1,763,874

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $10,257,835

  Expenses

  $6,165,644

  Contributions

  $1,001,989

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $16,140,547

  Expenses

  $5,026,875

  Contributions

  $921,842

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $24,155,941

  Expenses

  $4,280,714

  Assets (EOY)

  $89,399,266

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,276,060

  Expenses

  $3,722,859

  Assets (EOY)

  $98,997,228

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,465,939

  Expenses

  $4,304,254

  Assets (EOY)

  $75,722,346

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,975,300

  Expenses

  $4,337,759

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,035,014

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,900,113

  Expenses

  $4,031,140

  Assets (EOY)

  $60,644,121

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,184,223

  Expenses

  $3,820,427

  Assets (EOY)

  $56,140,544

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,163,535

  Expenses

  $5,307,125

  Assets (EOY)

  $50,361,843

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,441,676

  Expenses

  $3,309,061

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,921,922

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,441,676

  Expenses

  $3,309,061

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,921,922

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE

  $10,000

  2024 · SPONSOR FOR 2024 PRISON LAW AND ADVOCACY CONFERENCE

• UNCOMMON LAW

  $10,000

  2024 · SPONSOR FOR 2025 UNCOMMON HEROES EVENT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS

  $54,180

  2022 · FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT

• NEW ISRAEL FUND

  $30,200

  2022 · OTHER

• CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS

  $11,167

  2023 · LEGAL AID GRANTS

• CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS

  $7,663

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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