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Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,143,246 to it, the largest being CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 ($2,500,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children does
Mission
LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights and to reunify families and communities. We build public awareness of structural racism in policing, the courts and prison system and we advance racial and gender justice in all our work. Our strategies include legal support, trainings, advocacy, public education, grassroots mobilization and developing community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Family Defense Project that we ran from Sept 2023 - Sept 2025 ended in Sept 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
AOUON, LSPC's grassroots organizing arm, has 9 active chapters in CA that engaged in the Abolish Bondage Collectively and Reject Slavery Campaigns,Cal Fresh and Climate Justice in 2025. Our CA chapters work on wide-ranging statewide campaigns and policy efforts to support legal and policy change that benefits incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. The AOUON Newspaper is the vehicle that currently incarcerated individuals use to become involved with AOUON and remain informed about our current campaign work. Our AOUON "inside membership grew to 2,120 members who receive the AOUON Newspaper monthly (as of 12/31/25. AOUON members engage with the Coalition for Family Unity (est and led by LSPC to challenge laws and policies that harm family bonds of incarcerated individuals) as a primary source of communication and mobilization through which families advance advocacy efforts seeking to establish visiting as a right for families. LSPC continues to maintain its Elder Freeman Policy Fellowship and in 2025 trained 4 formerly incarcerated fellows in grassroots organizing. We also organized our annual Quest For Democracy day bringing together over 500 system-impacted people to…
$1,535,708 spent$34,666 earned by the program41% of program spendingLSPC's policy team leads policy initiatives at the local and statewide level. In 2025 they conducted legal research, collected and analyzed information on the needs of affected populations, designed policy solutions, and communicated with legislators and their staff, admin officials and other stakeholders. LSPC participated in 24 coalitions ranging from financial advocacy to child welfare. LSPC employed 4 Policy Fellows this year to support the legal and policy teams and supported the AOUON organizers with the Quest for Democracy event partnering with over 20 organizations working to end Mass Incarceration. LSPC's legal team conducted impact litigation, monitored settlements, and provided numerous legal trainings and tech assistance consultation to Qualified Legal Service Providers. LSPC responded to over 3500 letters from incarcerated people seeking legal resource materials and other info. East Bay Family defenders supports a nationally growing defense and birth justice movement through four key programs, preventive legal advocacy, legal training, technical assistance and advocacy support. LSPC provided 60-65 legal consultations, helped to launch a new pro bono partnership,…
$1,199,564 spent32% of program spendingLegal Services for Prisoners with Children provides support to 7 fiscally-sponsored projects working on a variety of criminal and social justice change issues. Several chapters work on a variety of issues around employment and housing discrimination. In addition to coalition work with many organizations working on criminal justice reform, our sponsored projects work to include incarcerated people to have a voice in creating changes in the prison and jail systems in California. The CA Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) continues to support women's prisons advocating for parole release as well as monitoring inadequate health care services in the CA prison system. CCWP also publishes The Fire Inside newsletter that began publication in 1996 and is the longest continuous publication in the country dedicated to women and transgender prisoners. CCWP continues to provide mutual aid to women prisoners.. The Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) continues to distribute, free of charge over a thousand resource manuals to prisoners, former prisoners and families, providing valuable resource information to people upon release.
$1,032,323 spentof which $10,584 as grants$18,689 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,767,595.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.4M to $8.6M (+34%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 2% · 2024 34% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
George Galvis
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $3.6M.
30 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 funders by total. 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
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
49% 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 Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 37% · 2019 29% · 2020 20% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 2023 21% — 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
46% of Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
81% of Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children?
- Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,143,246 to it, the largest being CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 ($2,500,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $21,143,246 in grants to Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children?
- CABIN ROAD FOUNDATION dated April 4 2011 is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children 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.
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 87 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