AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

128 DORRANCE ST STE 400

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

• PROVIDED LEGAL REPRESENTATION AND PARTICIPATED IN OVER 30 LAWSUITS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS ON A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES, INCLUDING THE SUCCESSFUL REPRESENTATION OF A TOWN RESIDENT WHO WAS SUED FOR SPEAKING OUT ABOUT A HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS SHORE ACCESS DISPUTE IN HER COMMUNITY; A SUIT ON BEHALF OF A PERSON WHO WAS TWICE WRONGLY ARRESTED AND JAILED BY POLICE ON THE BASIS OF A FALSE WARRANT; A SUCCESSFUL APPEAL UPHOLDING A STATE LAW ALLOWING JUVENILE OFFENDERS GIVEN LONG SENTENCES THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEEK EARLY PAROLE; AND A SUCCESSFUL SUIT ON BEHALF OF FIREFIGHTERS WHOSE PERSONAL LOCKERS AT THE FIRE STATION WERE SEARCHED BY POLICE WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.

  Expenses $283,855 · Revenue $111,345

• PREPARED, PUBLICIZED AND DISSEMINATED AN ARRAY OF KNOW YOUR RIGHTS MATERIALS IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES ON A VARIETY OF CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES, INCLUDING THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE IN ENCOUNTERS WITH THE POLICE; AND ISSUED A REPORT EXAMINING THE AVAILABILITY OF REMOTE ACCESS BY THE PUBLIC TO MEETINGS OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND CITY AND TOWN COUNCILS.

  Expenses $124,896

• ORGANIZED AND PARTICIPATED IN A VARIETY OF EVENTS DURING THE YEAR TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THEIR RIGHTS AND STIMULATE PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES, INCLUDING: AN ANNUAL MEETING DISCUSSION WITH ATTORNEYS AND CLIENTS INVOLVED IN MAJOR ACLU CASES; A REVIEW OF ENACTED STATE LAWS IN 2024 AFFECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES; AND A REVIEW OF IMPORTANT CIVIL LIBERTIES CASES IN THE 2023-2024 U.S. SUPREME COURT TERM.

  Expenses $158,959

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,406,341

  Expenses

  $691,640

  Contributions

  $1,092,657

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,080,062

  Expenses

  $689,017

  Contributions

  $601,054

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,507,467

  Expenses

  $532,049

  Contributions

  $1,365,196

  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

  $1,320,141

  Expenses

  $498,863

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,527,056

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $686,346

  Expenses

  $526,044

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,608,834

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $816,300

  Expenses

  $521,560

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,073,146

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $556,421

  Expenses

  $466,144

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,910,518

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $809,914

  Expenses

  $384,129

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,793,391

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $335,295

  Expenses

  $313,715

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,341,145

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $454,660

  Expenses

  $346,057

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,282,039

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

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

• FORGOOD INC

  $36,389

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• FORGOOD INC

  $36,171

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

• FORGOOD INC

  $32,005

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $22,782

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE SENTENCING PROJECT

  $15,000

  2023 · ORGANIZE COMMUNITY EFFORTS TO SUPPORT CAMPAIGN TO END LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.

• THE SENTENCING PROJECT

  $10,000

  2022 · THIS GRANT, GIVEN THROUGH THE ACLU OF RHODE ISLAND, HIRED A FULL-TIME ORGANIZER TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND GARNER PARTNERS TO END LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN RHODE ISLAND. THIS EFFORT HAS BROUGHT 75 COMMUNITY PARTNERS (DIRECTLY IMPACTED) AND 36 ESTABLISHED PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS INTO THE PROCESS OF REPEALING LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. WIDESPREAD IGNORANCE OF THIS SENTENCE HAS ALLOWED IT TO CONTINUE IN AN INTERCONNECTED COMMUNITY THAT IS NOW SHOWING A HIGH LEVEL OF SUPPORT FOR ITS REPEAL. IT HAS ALSO BROUGHT MANY NATIONALLY AND LOCALLY KNOWN EXPERTS TO THE TABLE WHO ARE NOW PUBLICLY COMMENTING ON THEIR DESIRE TO REPEAL THIS SENTENCE. OF THE 25 PERSONS SERVING LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN RI, WE HAVE CONNECTED WITH AT LEAST 1 FAMILY MEMBER OR SUPPORTER PER INCARCERATED PERSON, AND IN SOME CASES, AS MANY AS 10, WHOSE STORIES HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AND ARE BEING SHARED WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY TO SHOW THE IMPACT OF THIS TERRIBLE SENTENCE.

• UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC

  $9,858

  2024 · DONOR DESIGNATION/GRANT

• UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC

  $7,036

  2022 · DESIGNATED DONATION/GRANT

• UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC

  $6,571

  2023 · DONOR DESIGNATION/GRANT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $5,800

  2024 · HEALTH

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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