- Revenue 2023
- $4,823,369
- Expenses 2023
- $4,603,448
Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 50 FEDERAL STREET 4TH FL
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
PLS' MISSION IS TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF INCARCERATED PERSONS AND END HARMFUL CONFINEMENT.
Activities or mission (Part I)
SEE SCHEDULE O
-
Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $3,790,041 · Revenue $434,854
As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
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.
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Patricia Garin EsqPATRICIA GARIN ESQ
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
James RollinsJAMES ROLLINS
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Elizabeth A Davis MDELIZABETH A DAVIS MD
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Joel ThompsonJOEL THOMPSON
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jose BouJOSE BOU
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Douglas Brooks EsqDOUGLAS BROOKS ESQ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Steven BrownSTEVEN BROWN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Celestino ColonCELESTINO COLON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tony GaskinsTONY GASKINS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Monik C JimenezMONIK C JIMENEZ
DIRECTOR UNTIL 5/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Joan JohnstonJOAN JOHNSTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sandy LinSANDY LIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ellen LubellELLEN LUBELL
DIRECTOR UNTIL 6/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jennifer McKinnonJENNIFER MCKINNON
DIRECTOR EFF. 8/23
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Cloe PippinCLOE PIPPIN
DIRECTOR EFF. 9/23
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mala Rafik EsqMALA RAFIK ESQ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jeffrey WiesnerJEFFREY WIESNER
DIRECTOR EFF. 8/23
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Zeno WilliamsZENO WILLIAMS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Elizabeth MatosELIZABETH MATOS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNTIL 9/23
- Total calculated
- $148,208
- From this org
- $137,744
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,464
- Hours/week
- 35
-
Cheryl ZollCHERYL ZOLL
INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EFF. 9/23
- Total calculated
- $49,414
- From this org
- $37,377
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $12,037
- Hours/week
- 28
-
James PingeonJAMES PINGEON
ATTORNEY
- Total calculated
- $156,864
- From this org
- $148,700
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,164
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $148,700
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,400
- Nontaxable benefits
- $764
- Filer's total
- $156,864
-
Bonita P TennerielloBONITA P TENNERIELLO
ATTORNEY
- Total calculated
- $135,520
- From this org
- $128,142
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,378
- Hours/week
- 35
-
Latoya N WhitesideLATOYA N WHITESIDE
ATTORNEY
- Total calculated
- $139,502
- From this org
- $115,862
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,640
- Hours/week
- 35
-
David MiltonDAVID MILTON
ATTORNEY
- Total calculated
- $120,802
- From this org
- $114,210
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,592
- Hours/week
- 35
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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,823,369
- Expenses
- $4,603,448
- Contributions
- $4,315,702
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $4,042,862
- Expenses
- $4,042,479
- Contributions
- $3,955,294
- 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
- $3,683,495
- Expenses
- $3,464,840
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,814,956
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,345,242
- Expenses
- $3,125,165
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,598,693
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,887,703
- Expenses
- $2,702,742
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,371,367
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,746,332
- Expenses
- $2,506,954
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,823,398
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,158,839
- Expenses
- $2,071,911
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,265,838
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,052,193
- Expenses
- $1,946,992
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,204,186
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,048,448
- Expenses
- $1,884,843
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,127,802
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,797,743
- Expenses
- $1,668,792
- Assets (EOY)
- $909,688
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,487,200
- Expenses
- $1,669,717
- Assets (EOY)
- $775,333
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,595,950
- Assets (EOY)
- $983,297
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
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
-
MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE
$865,724
2024 TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
-
MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE
$793,176
2023 TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
-
MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE
$743,864
2022 TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
-
RIZE MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC
$125,000
2022 INNOVATIONS IN ANTI-RACISM
-
$85,000
2024 SUPPORT LEGAL AID
-
MASSACHUSETTS BAR FOUNDATION INC
$80,000
2023 Various
-
MASSACHUSETTS BAR FOUNDATION INC
$72,500
2022 VARIOUS
-
$70,000
2023 SUPPORT LEGAL AID
-
$65,000
2022 SUPPORT LEGAL AID
-
2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.