California · Nonprofit
COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT
COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,894 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($121,555). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $641k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $476k
- Net assets
- $291k
What Compassion Prison Project does
Mission
The organization's mission is to transform prisons and communities through compassionate action. Our main focus is on childhood trauma and how it affects the lives of men and women living and working in prisons. In our research, using the cdc/kaiser permanente aces study (adverse childhood experiences), we have seen that aces are disproportionately high within the prison system. At cpp, we are focused on bringing childhood trauma awareness, education and healing to prisons and communities both in the u.s. And globally.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Trauma talks:our flagship program, trauma talks, is a dynamic 16-part educational video series with accompanying workbook designed to educate and spread awareness about childhood trauma and the effects of trauma on the brain, body and spirit. Renowned trauma experts bruce perry, bessel van der kolk, gabor mat, peter levine, as well as several others have contributed to the series. Trauma talks introduces various healing modalities and circle discussions to help incarcerated residents process their trauma.compassion trauma circles: Compassion Prison Project runs zoom community circles with people dialing in from all over the world. The purpose is to raise awareness of the prevalence of aces (adverse childhood experiences) across society and begin the process of healing through education and open dialogue. We run compassion trauma circles in prisons and transitional housing centers as well.ace survey collection:Compassion Prison Project 's work with prisons and communities is based on the cdc-kaiser permanente adverse childhood experiences (ace) study which is one of the largest investigations into childhood abuse, neglect and later-life health risks. Compassion Prison Project is…
$956,240 spent$26,167 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $956,240.
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 2023 to 2024, from $957k to $317k (−67%).
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: 2022 72% · 2023 83% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT’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. 1 of the last 5 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
Fredrika A Horstman
Executive director & presi
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $35k → $65k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT’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
COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
83% 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 COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 39% · 2022 49% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $98k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT: 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 COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT?
- COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $475,894 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($121,555). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $475,894 in grants to COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $121,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 20 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