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PRISONERS LITERATURE PROJECT

EIN 87-2253705 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2025
$248,087
Expenses 2025
$236,627

Program services were 93.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I43
Classification
1200
Street
2022 BLAKE 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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Prisoners Kiterature Project Sends books, educational materials and contact information of legal support organizations to incarcerated individuals across the US, servincg approximately 12,000 persons annually.

  • Sending books to incarcerated individuals we conduct approximately 3 book-packing sessions wirh communiry volunteers every week and send aoround 1,000 book packages per month to incarcerated indiviiduals in 49 US states. These include dictionairies, genre books, drawing books any many other subjects that we either get donated or buy from remainder book distributors.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Simon Careless

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • Christopher Gales

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • Karen Franklen

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $248,087
    Expenses
    $236,627
    Contributions
    $245,067
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $224,916
    Expenses
    $179,520
    Contributions
    $221,974
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $133,234
    Expenses
    $130,628
    Contributions
    $126,714
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $147,875
    Expenses
    $148,333
    Contributions
    $139,984
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $168,664
    Expenses
    $137,307
    Contributions
    $162,242
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Simon Carless
Mailing address
2022 Blake StreetBerkeley CA 94704
Website
https://www.prisonlit.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.