Oregon · Nonprofit
BROKEN SHACKLES
BROKEN SHACKLES (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being MICHAEL J & ADELE M TENNANT CHARITABLE ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Broken Shackles does
Mission
Physical spiritual support for inmates
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Face to face meetings with inmates at deschutes county jail and deer ridge correctional institute and post incarceration assistance.
$5,217 spent45% of program spendingFace to face lunches/ministy time with inmates, contributors and related ministry representitives
$1,344 spent12% of program spendingCorrespondence with inmates in deschutes county jail and oregon prison
$5,008 spent43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,569.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $18k to $36k (+104%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of BROKEN SHACKLES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of BROKEN SHACKLES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BROKEN SHACKLES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BROKEN SHACKLES's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BROKEN SHACKLES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BROKEN SHACKLES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROKEN SHACKLES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROKEN SHACKLES?
- BROKEN SHACKLES (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being MICHAEL J & ADELE M TENNANT CHARITABLE ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROKEN SHACKLES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $86,000 in grants to BROKEN SHACKLES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROKEN SHACKLES?
- MICHAEL J & ADELE M TENNANT CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROKEN SHACKLES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing