Nevada · Nonprofit
Return Strong
Return Strong (Nevada) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,000 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $372k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $487k
- Net assets
- $195k
What Return Strong does
Mission
Return Strong led and delivered impactful statewide advocacy and community-based reform efforts advancing prison oversight accountability and humane conditions of confinement in Nevada. Spearheaded policy development legislative testimony and stakeholder engagement that resulted in the passage and implementation of SB307 Mandela Rules significantly restricting the use of solitary confinement and improving conditions for more than 10,000 incarcerated individuals. Provided direct advocacy and navigation support to dozens of families impacted by deaths in custody elevating concerns to oversight bodies and advancing transparency and accountability practices. Additionally facilitated large-scale community education and organizing initiatives that engaged approximately 3,000 incarcerated individuals and hundreds of family and community members building leadership capacity civic participation and collective power to drive sustained criminal legal system reform.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Led and delivered impactful statewide advocacy and community-based reform efforts advancing prison oversight accountability and humane conditions of confinement in Nevada. Spearheaded policy development legislative testimony and stakeholder engagement that resulted in the passage and implementation of SB307 Mandela Rules significantly restricting the use of solitary confinement and improving conditions for more than 10,000 incarcerated individuals. Provided direct advocacy and navigation support to dozens of families impacted by deaths in custody elevating concerns to oversight bodies and advancing transparency and accountability practices. Additionally facilitated large-scale community education and organizing initiatives that engaged approximately 3,000 incarcerated individuals and hundreds of family and community members building leadership capacity civic participation and collective power to drive sustained criminal legal system reform.
$70,044 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $70,044.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $102 to $195k (+191221%).
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.
100% of Return Strong’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. 1 of the last 3 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
Nick Shepack
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $144k → $165k.
From the IRS filings of Return Strong’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
Return Strong leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Return Strong.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 70% · 2023 61% — 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
Return Strong draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Return Strong 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 Return Strong
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Return Strong: 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 Return Strong?
- Return Strong (Nevada) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,000 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Return Strong have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $487,000 in grants to Return Strong, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Return Strong?
- LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Return Strong find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 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