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THE PRISON SCHOLAR FUND

EIN 41-2175677 SEATTLE, WA

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Revenue 2024
$805,880
Expenses 2024
$1,073,984

Program services were 91.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I40
Classification
1000
Street
1752 NW MARKET ST 953

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

Mission

The Prison Scholar Fund is committed to providing educational opportunities, professional development, transitional support, and advocacy for those impacted by incarceration.

  • The Prison Scholar Fund (PSF) provides education, transition, and employment assistance to help system impacted people succeed and thrive in society while avoiding homelessness and the revolving door of reincarceration. Continuing after the COVID-19 Pandemic, the PSF has provided nourishment to over 1,000 families facing food insecurity, workforce integration, and digital equity training -- including coding bootcamps -- to justice involved people.

    Expenses $979,567

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.

  • Dirk van Velzen

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $84,832
    From this org
    $84,832
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    70

  • Brent Orrell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tim Pauley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Xuelian Chi

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Seph McCarty

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Arjun Dubashi

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Olivia Alcaire

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lex Colleen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darnell Dumas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Antoinette Govan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sai Nimmagadda

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Robert Wood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $805,880
    Expenses
    $1,073,984
    Contributions
    $805,880
    Grants paid
    $738,157
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,293,100
    Expenses
    $2,388,828
    Contributions
    $2,293,099
    Grants paid
    $1,790,079
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,137,148
    Expenses
    $1,060,204
    Contributions
    $1,137,148
    Grants paid
    $869,872

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
    $1,210,114
    Expenses
    $1,224,683
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,697

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $767,067
    Expenses
    $737,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,284

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $84,148
    Expenses
    $97,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,904

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $88,402
    Expenses
    $67,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,008

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2010

Tax period
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010
Principal officer
Ted Van Velzen
Mailing address
23517 Orville Road EastOrting WA 98360

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.