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Prison Law Office

Prison Law Office is a legal aid society based in Berkeley, CA that was founded in 1978. As of 2018 they had $7.9 million in revenue and $60 million in assets.

The Prison Law Office is a nonprofit public interest law firm based in Berkeley, California that provides free legal services to adult and juvenile offenders to improve their conditions of confinement.

EIN:

94-2495939

City:

Berkeley

State:

California

Metro:

San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA

Website:

prisonlaw.com

Founded:

1978

Type:

501(c)(3)

NTEE:

I80: Legal aid services

Revenue:

$7,900,113

Assets:

$60,644,121

Employees:

Fiscal year end:

June

Revenue trends:

Asset trends:

Program areas at Prison Law Office

Prison Law Office is committed to protecting the civil rights of California prisoners and to foster community awareness and education in prison related issues.

Form 990s for Prison Law Office

Fiscal year ending	Date received by IRS	Form	PDF link
2018-06	Jul 23, 2019	990	View PDF
2017-06	Mar 14, 2018	990	View PDF
2016-06	Sep 26, 2017	990	View PDF
2015-06	Aug 15, 2016	990	View PDF
2015-06	Aug 3, 2016	990	View PDF
...and five more Form 990 PDFs

Financials for Prison Law Office

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Federated campaigns	$0	$0
Membership dues	$0	$0
Fundraising event contributions	$0	$0
Related organizations	$0	$0
Government grants (contributions)	$634,740	$742,100	-14.5%
Normal grants, contributions, etc.	$27,890	$0	999%
<em>Non-cash contributions included in above</em>	$0	$0
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$662,630	$742,100	-10.7%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$662,630	$742,100	-10.7%
Program services	$4,278,534	$4,982,586	-14.1%
Investment income and dividends	$1,502,218	$1,268,135	18.5%
Tax-exempt bond proceeds	$0	$0
Royalty revenue	$0	$0
Net rental income	$-2,358	$-2,489	5.3%
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets	$0	$0
Net income from fundraising events	$0	$0
Net income from gaming activities	$0	$0
Net income from sales of inventory	$0	$2,188	-100%
Miscellaneous revenues	$1,459,089	$3,191,703	-54.3%
Total revenues	$7,900,113	$10,184,223	-22.4%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Grants to govts. and orgs. in USA	$0	$0
Grants to individuals in USA	$0	$0
Grants to govts., orgs., and individuals outside USA	$0	$0
Benefits paid to or for members	$0	$0
Compensation of current officers, etc.	$1,122,177	$942,819	19.0%
Compensation not included above, to disqualified persons	$0	$0
Non-officer salaries and wages	$1,466,107	$1,612,782	-9.1%
Pension/retirement accruals and contributions	$0	$0
Other employee benefits	$224,769	$212,875	5.6%
Payroll taxes	$179,793	$171,088	5.1%
Management fees	$0	$108,333	-100%
Legal fees	$278,476	$235,386	18.3%
Accounting fees	$0	$0
Lobbying fees	$0	$0
Pro. fundraising fees	$0	$0
Investment mgmt fees	$0	$0
Other fee-for-service	$2,477	$7,000	-64.6%
Advertising and promotion	$0	$0
Office expenses	$146,005	$141,882	2.9%
Information tech. expenses	$0	$0
Royalty expenses	$0	$0
Occupancy	$144,496	$15,778	815.8%
Travel	$83,229	$83,028	0.2%
Public official travel and entertainment	$0	$0
Conferences, meetings, etc.	$0	$0
Interest	$0	$0
Payments to affiliates	$0	$0
Depreciation, amortization, etc.	$128,998	$122,396	5.4%
Insurance	$22,719	$25,744	-11.8%
All other expenses	$231,894	$141,316	64.1%
Total expenses	$4,031,140	$3,820,427	5.5%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Cash (non-interest-bearing)	$852,329	$2,158,546	-60.5%
Savings, short-term investments, etc.	$0	$0
Pledges and grants receivable	$0	$0
Accounts receivable	$2,991,551	$1,984,290	50.8%
Loans receivable from officers, directors, etc.	$0	$0
Loans receivable from other disqualified persons	$0	$0
Notes and loans receivable	$0	$0
Inventories for use	$0	$0
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges	$0	$0
Buildings, equipment, etc. post-depreciation	$3,908,840	$4,066,155	-3.9%
Investments, publicly traded securities	$52,891,401	$47,931,553	10.3%
Investments, other securities	$0	$0
Investments, program-related	$0	$0
Intangible assets	$0	$0
Other assets	$0	$0
Total assets	$60,644,121	$56,140,544	8.0%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$140,605	$154,129	-8.8%
Grants payable	$0	$0
Deferred revenue	$642,554	$0	999%
Tax-exempt bond liabilities	$0	$0
Escrow or custodial account liability	$0	$0
Loans payable to officers and disqualified persons	$0	$0
Secured mortgages and notes payable to unrelated third parties	$0	$0
Unsecured notes and loans payable to unrelated third parties	$0	$0
Other liabilities	$16,259	$10,685	52.2%
Total liabilities	$799,418	$164,814	385.0%

Field	2018	2017	% Change
Unrestricted net assets	$59,844,703	$55,744,371	7.4%
Temporarily restricted net assets		$231,359	999%
Permanently restricted net assets	$0	$0

Vendors for Prison Law Office

Vendor	Services	Date
Google Inc	Software	2019-10-23
██████	Fundraising software	2019-10-19
███████ ███ ████	Fundraising software; Payment processing	2019-10-19
█████████	Content management system software	2019-10-19
████ █████████ ████	Tax accounting	2019-06-27

Personnel at Prison Law Office

Name	Title	Compensation	Most recent data
Donald Specter	Executive Director	$288,214	July 17, 2019
Ashley Kirby	Office Manager	-	July 17, 2019
██████ ██ ████████	Technology and Grants Manager	-	July 17, 2019
████ ██	Staff Attorney and Juvenile Justice Policy and Projects Manager	$0	Oct. 30, 2017
████ ██████	Managing Attorney	$221,492	July 17, 2019
███████ ███████████	Vice President	$0	June 30, 2018
████████ ██████	President	$0	June 30, 2018
████████ ██████	Treasurer	$0	June 30, 2018
███████ ███████	Attorney	$121,600	June 30, 2016
...and one more key personnel

Peer legal aid services

	Name	Type	Revenue	Location
1	Youth Represent	501(c)(3)	$2.0 million	New York, NY
2	Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs (WLC)	501(c)(3)	$4.7 million	Washington, DC
3	Prisoners' Legal Services (PLS)	501(c)(3)	$2.1 million	Boston, MA
4	Center on Race Poverty & Environment (CRPE)	501(c)(3)	$2.6 million	Oakland, CA
5	Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (AAAJLA)	501(c)(3)	$13 million	Los Angeles, CA
6	Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)	501(c)(3)	$4.0 million	Los Angeles, CA
7	Pars Equality Center (PEC)	501(c)(3)	$2.8 million	Menlo Park, CA
8	Transgender Law Center	501(c)(3)	$5.2 million	Oakland, CA
9	National Immigration Law Center	501(c)(3)	$20 million	Los Angeles, CA
10	National Center for Youth Law (NCYL)	501(c)(3)	$6.5 million	Oakland, CA
11	Legal Aid Society of San Diego	501(c)(3)	$16 million	San Diego, CA
12	Alliance For Children's Rights	501(c)(3)	$4.6 million	Los Angeles, CA
13	National Health Law Program (NHeLP)	501(c)(3)	$7.6 million	Los Angeles, CA
14	Center for Justice and Accountability	501(c)(3)	$3.6 million	San Francisco, CA
15	Public Advocates	501(c)(3)	$4.8 million	San Francisco, CA
16	Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCR)	501(c)(3)	$2.1 million	San Francisco, CA
17	Western Center on Law & Poverty	501(c)(3)	$4.4 million	Los Angeles, CA
18	California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation	501(c)(3)	$4.1 million	Sacramento, CA
19	California District Attorneys Association	501(c)(6)	$5.8 million	Sacramento, CA
20	Legal Action Center of the City of New York	501(c)(3)	$6.0 million	New York, NY
21	New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI)	501(c)(3)	$5.2 million	New York, NY
22	The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press	501(c)(3)	$4.2 million	Washington, DC
23	Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI)	501(c)(3)	$3.8 million	Boston, MA
24	North Carolina Justice Center	501(c)(3)	$5.0 million	Raleigh, NC
25	SeniorLAW Center	501(c)(3)	$2.6 million	Philadelphia, PA

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