Chainless Change Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

As chainless change evolves, we've recognized that supportive services should not be our focus. While service provision has value, it will not lead us to collective liberation. Moving forward, our work will be organized into three distinct pillars-collective care, community-building, and campaigns & advocacy-each designed to stabilize our members, build power, and drive systemic change to improve the lives of justice-involved individuals. Pressing needs as we continue to implement the many programs and initiatives outlined through the "three c" framework below, our needs continue to evolve and grow. As you consider how you can best support our work in 2025, our most pressing needs include: expanding our team: to reduce our current power waitlist and meet this moment with increased organizing and leadership development work, we must implement an interdisciplinary care team model. This will require hiring specialized navigators in employment, housing, and health, along with a targeted case manager. The cost of hiring, onboarding, training, and sustaining this team is projected to be 325,000 annually. Implementing new software: to better track and monitor programmatic outcomes, we need new, customizable software to replace our current tool, apricot social solutions. We are exploring exponent case management as a long-term solution. The custom build, implementation, and tech support for this tool will cost approximately 65,000, with an annual licensing fee of 10,000 thereafter. ? Outfits rv restocking: with that said, the cost of sustaining outfits in 2025 will be high, and we know it must be a focal point of our fundraising and in-kind donation collection efforts. Having held just four outfits events thus far, we have already distributed six months of clothing donations. We must also compensate two full-time staff and two stipend- based members during all hours outfits operates. We also fund staff time for procuring, stocking, and inventorying supplies, cleaning and maintaining the unit, refueling, and driving it from place to place. Outfits accessibility modifications: aligned with our commitment to maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for everyone, we must convert the bathroom flooring in outfits to tile, replace the carpet in the undercarriage, and provide reinforcement for the existing closet. While this will cost about 30,000, it is necessary to ensure individuals with mobility challenges can access the unit (and it will allow us to better clean it between uses). Community-based legal advocacy (cbla): one of our newest initiatives, cbla will equip justice-involved community members with legal self-help information, tools for self-advocacy and collective action, knowledge to offer support and guidance to others in similar situations, bond support (for members), and assistance with lawyers and public defenders. Additionally, we will continue to collaborate with attorneys and other legal professionals to pursue fairer courtroom outcomes. To support the rollout of cbla, we need collective care peers optimistically working to end recidivism (power) power is a peer-led program that provides life-sustaining resources and referrals to approximately 200 members yearly through individualized reentry and recovery (r&r) plans tailored to each member's needs. These plans address social determinants of health (sdoh), targeting the root causes of rearrest, relapse, crises, and mortality. To complement their lived experience, our peers receive ongoing training in evidence-based practices to support members with: economic stability: we help members secure employment or access entitlements like snap, ssi/ssd, and housing vouchers. Mutual aid resources, including emergency cash assistance, alleviate financial hardships that could lead to survival crimes. Education access: we connect members with educational and vocational training opportunities through local workforce development programs. Healthcare access: we provide harm reduction i

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -27.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 33.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 26.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings