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MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES

EIN 04-2523362 BOSTON, MA

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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.

  • Patricia Garin Esq

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Rollins

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth A Davis MD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joel Thompson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jose Bou

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Douglas Brooks Esq

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Celestino Colon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tony Gaskins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Monik C Jimenez

    DIRECTOR UNTIL 5/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joan Johnston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sandy Lin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ellen Lubell

    DIRECTOR UNTIL 6/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jennifer McKinnon

    DIRECTOR EFF. 8/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cloe Pippin

    DIRECTOR EFF. 9/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mala Rafik Esq

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey Wiesner

    DIRECTOR EFF. 8/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Zeno Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth 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 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 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 Tenneriello

    ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $135,520
    From this org
    $128,142
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,378
    Hours/week
    35
  • Latoya N Whiteside

    ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $139,502
    From this org
    $115,862
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,640
    Hours/week
    35
  • David 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

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.