Michigan · Nonprofit
Citizens for Prison Reform
Citizens for Prison Reform (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,001 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE ($203,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $351k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Citizens for Prison Reform does
Mission
To promote and contribute to the education of families and those affected by crime and punishment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Unlock the Box educates and brings awareness to the use of solitary confinement and conditions of confinement with the goal to limit who is held in solitary and length of time. It works to bring systemic transformation by storytelling of those directly impacted, sharing analyzed data and highlights the need for accountability, transparency and oversight.
$43,544 spent$48,000 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe Family Participatory Program (FPP) trains family advocates to support families of the incarcerated to navigate the system, provide support meetings and share their stories to drive change. FPP assists with technology, medical, mental health and other barriers to protect human dignity, and connects with individuals and their families through informational posters in all prison waiting rooms and common areas on units.
$130,494 spent$161,500 earned by the program56% of program spendingThe FIRST (Family Information, Resource & Support Team) Hub Participatory Defense Movement supports families and individuals navigating the criminal legal system, empowering them to seek diversion and positively impact case outcomes, keeping more people with their families and in the community.
$41,207 spent$33,500 earned by the program18% of program spendingAdministrative programming - revenue of $26,000, expenses of $14,468 Restorative Justice Initiative - revenue of $3,820, expenses of $3,916
$18,384 spent$29,820 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $233,629.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $27k to $187k (+598%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 15% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Citizens for Prison Reform’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lois Pullano
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $149k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Citizens for Prison Reform’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
Citizens for Prison Reform leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Citizens for Prison Reform.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 99% · 2022 70% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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
Citizens for Prison Reform draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
Citizens for Prison Reform has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Citizens for Prison Reform
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 Citizens for Prison Reform: 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 Citizens for Prison Reform?
- Citizens for Prison Reform (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,001 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE ($203,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens for Prison Reform have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $474,001 in grants to Citizens for Prison Reform, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens for Prison Reform?
- NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE is the largest funder on record, with $203,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens for Prison Reform find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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