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Prison Law Office

The mission of the PRISON LAW OFFICE is to reduce incarceration and ensure humane and constitutional treatment of people who remain in prisons, jails and on parole.

$20k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$140M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Uncommon Law$10,0001n/a
The Promise of Justice Initiative$10,00010%

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About Prison Law Office

How much does Prison Law Office give?
Prison Law Office reported 2 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Prison Law Office fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Prison Law Office's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Uncommon Law ($10k), The Promise of Justice Initiative ($10k).
Where is Prison Law Office based?
Prison Law Office is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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