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RETURN STRONG

EIN 88-0908924 LAS VEGAS, NV

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Revenue 2023
$371,500
Expenses 2023
$176,455

Program services were 39.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I01
Classification
1200
Street
732 S 6TH STREET 5002

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 · 2023

Mission

Return Strong led and delivered impactful statewide advocacy and community-based reform efforts advancing prison oversight accountability and humane conditions of confinement in Nevada. Spearheaded policy development legislative testimony and stakeholder engagement that resulted in the passage and implementation of SB307 Mandela Rules significantly restricting the use of solitary confinement and improving conditions for more than 10,000 incarcerated individuals. Provided direct advocacy and navigation support to dozens of families impacted by deaths in custody elevating concerns to oversight bodies and advancing transparency and accountability practices. Additionally facilitated large-scale community education and organizing initiatives that engaged approximately 3,000 incarcerated individuals and hundreds of family and community members building leadership capacity civic participation and collective power to drive sustained criminal legal system reform.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Return Strong is a grassroots organization led by and for impacted people-people who are incarcerated formerly incarcerated and their loved ones-dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex. Grounded in abolitionist values we work to protect the humanity of those affected by incarceration right now while simultaneously setting the foundation for a future free from prisons. Our approach is both immediate and transformative. We confront the oppressive conditions toxic culture and harmful norms of prisons head-on while driving systemic change to end the cycle of incarceration and harm that disproportionately impacts black & brown people and those experiencing poverty. By zooming in we tackle the urgent realities faced by incarcerated people today. By zooming out we challenge and dismantle the systems that perpetuate punishment over healing. Through grassroots organizing empowerment-driven leadership development and bold strategic advocacy we build collective power to d

  • Led and delivered impactful statewide advocacy and community-based reform efforts advancing prison oversight accountability and humane conditions of confinement in Nevada. Spearheaded policy development legislative testimony and stakeholder engagement that resulted in the passage and implementation of SB307 Mandela Rules significantly restricting the use of solitary confinement and improving conditions for more than 10,000 incarcerated individuals. Provided direct advocacy and navigation support to dozens of families impacted by deaths in custody elevating concerns to oversight bodies and advancing transparency and accountability practices. Additionally facilitated large-scale community education and organizing initiatives that engaged approximately 3,000 incarcerated individuals and hundreds of family and community members building leadership capacity civic participation and collective power to drive sustained criminal legal system reform.

    Expenses $70,044

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nick Shepack

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Denise Bolanos

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mark Bettencourt

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Sarah Hawkins

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $371,500
    Expenses
    $176,455
    Contributions
    $371,500
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $96,924
    Expenses
    $189,136
    Contributions
    $96,924
    Grants paid
    $20,626

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.

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2024, reinstated 15 November 2024.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.