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BURIED ALIVE PROJECT

EIN 82-3944969 DALLAS, TX

Revenue 2024
$270,394
Expenses 2024
$288,387

Program services were 87.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I43
Classification
1000
Street
2626 COLE AVE STE 300

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 BURIED ALIVE PROJECT WORKS TO ELIMINATE LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE SENTENCES HANDED DOWN UNDER FEDERAL DRUG LAWS THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE LITIGATION, LEGISLATION AND HUMANIZATION. WE USE STATISTICS AND STORIES TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND AMPLIFY THE VOICES OF THOSE DIRECTLY IMPACTED. THE HUMAN ELEMENT IS RARELY ADDRESSED BUT NECESSARY TO DRIVE CHANGE NEEDED TO REFORM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. BY ENGAGING PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THIS PROJECT WILL HARNESS AMERICAS COLLECTIVE INTEREST, PASSION, AND DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF THIS ISSUE INTO CONCRETE CHANGE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Buried Alive Project works to free people serving life without parole sentences handed down under outdated federal drug laws.

  • The personal journies of our co-founders (who have all been directly impacted by the criminal legal system) gives us a unique lens and expertise in helping advance the movement to transform this nation's criminal legal system. The Buried Alive Project provides pro bono legal representation for people serving life sentences in prison under outdated federal drugs laws. Our efforts have saved the lives of dozens of people set to die in prison. With every freedom we secure, we are pushing forth a movement of power, dignity, and human potential that this nation needs to thrive.

    Expenses $251,187

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.

  • BRITTANY BARNETT

    NATIONAL DIRECTOR,BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $133,000
    From this org
    $133,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SHARANDA JONES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • COREY JACOBS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $270,394
    Expenses
    $288,387
    Contributions
    $270,394
    Grants paid
    $20,050
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $142,193
    Expenses
    $482,009
    Contributions
    $142,193
    Grants paid
    $16,740
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $552,138
    Expenses
    $530,033
    Contributions
    $552,138
    Grants paid
    $29,636

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
    $551,959
    Expenses
    $386,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $337,100

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $341,190
    Expenses
    $403,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $171,551

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,103
    Expenses
    $512,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,451

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 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Brittany Barnett
Mailing address
3131 McKinney Avenue Suite 600Dallas TX 75204

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.