Washington · Nonprofit
Living with Conviction
Living with Conviction (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,307 to it, the largest being Northwest Justice Project ($197,169). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $574k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Living with Conviction does
Mission
Living with Convictions mission is to secure economic and racial justice with and by marginalized communities, especially formerly incarcerated individuals, through community-driven research, storytelling, and legal empowerment strategies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization was incorporated in Nov 2022 and began its programs in 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Constitutional Relief: In 2023, Living with Conviction prioritized growing its peer-to-peer, post-conviction Legal Empowerment Program by helping people understand and exercise their rights to constitutional relief under the Washington State Supreme Court's State v. Blake decision, holding the state's drug possession statute violates the federal and state constitutional rights to due process. Living with Conviction's Legal Empowerment team consists of formerly incarcerated navigators who work directly with their peers, with the support and oversight of attorneys. The organization does not provide legal advice or representation, but refers people to attorneys and representation, as needed or requested. In its first year serving individuals impacted by the Washington State Supreme Court's State v. Blake decision, Living with Conviction's formerly incarcerated navigators helped 184 people figure out if they were eligible for State v. Blake relief, and if so, understand and exercise their rights to constitutional relief in 337 cases. This work was undertaken in 31 of 39 counties.
$314,388 spent$374,413 earned by the program78% of program spendingRelief from Felony Court Debt: In 2023, Living with Conviction prioritized growing its peer-to-peer, post-conviction Legal Empowerment Program by helping people understand and exercise their statutory rights to request a waiver of their felony court debt, called legal financial obligations or LFOs, which have been accruing 12% to 50% interest and thus are overly burdensome and criminalize poverty. With the assistance of Living with Conviction's formerly incarcerated navigators, 125 people with court debt exercised their rights to request a reduction of their felony court debt in 387 cases, resulting in $1,838,594.85 in court debt waived, without the direct assistance of attorneys. This work was undertaken in 12 of Washington State's 39 counties. A key cross-cutting activity of Living with Conviction's Legal Empowerment Program is creating plain language legal education materials, including infographics and videos, shared via its partners and social media channels, among other content.
$66,531 spent$66,531 earned by the program17% of program spendingMultimedia Storytelling - Living with Conviction's Multimedia Storytelling Program is a collaboration with formerly incarcerated individuals impacted by these policies to both educate the public and inspire others to step up and claim these rights. At the core of this program is the power of these stories to challenge negative stereotypes and replace them with authentic narratives about trying to survive and thrive under the burden of an oppressive criminal legal system.
$20,674 spent$20,674 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $401,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $18k to $81k (+350%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of Living with Conviction’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Living with Conviction’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
Living with Conviction leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Living with Conviction.
“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 Living with Conviction's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k 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
Living with Conviction has grown faster 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 Living with Conviction
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Living with Conviction: 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 Living with Conviction?
- Living with Conviction (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,307 to it, the largest being Northwest Justice Project ($197,169). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Living with Conviction have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $290,307 in grants to Living with Conviction.
- Who is the largest funder of Living with Conviction?
- Northwest Justice Project is the largest funder on record, with $197,169 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living with Conviction find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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