Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($275,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Illinois Prison Project Action Fund does
Mission
The Illinois Prison Project Action Fund supports lobbying for legislation and policy that reduces the size and scope of Illinois criminal legal and prison systems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In FY24 the Illinois Prison Project Action fund lobbied legislators on legislation related to felony murder reform mandatory supervised release reform and reform of Illinois Prisoner Review Board. The Illinois Prison Project Action Fund also worked with other criminal legal reform stakeholders in Illinois to build a coalition to advance back-end reform engaged in community education and worked the policymakers in the Governors Office Lt. Governors Office and states attorneys offices throughout the state.
$56,526 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,526.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND’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.
Where its funders are
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
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
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND?
- ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($275,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $275,000 in grants to ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND?
- ACTION NOW INC is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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