Drop Lwop New England

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934484912
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Cambridge, MA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$122,325
Expenses
$146,479
Assets
$23,668
Liabilities
$689

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Sharon White-Harrigan (Chairman)
  • TIMOTHY BURGESS (CO VICE CHAIR)
  • KYLE BYRANT (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Drop lwop new england restores hope to people serving life without parole(lwop) and other extreme sentences through legislative advocacy and community engagement. Drop lwop new england creates awareness of death by incarceration and works to end life without parole sentences one new england state at a time.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization made significant strides in expanding outreach efforts, raising awareness of its mission, and fostering partnerships with community and advocacy groups. These efforts are aimed at creating systemic change and providing support to this underserved population, in line with our organization's exempt purpose of advocacy and community support for justice-involved individuals. Specifically: Initiated outreach to incarcerated individuals across all six New England states, establishing connections with their families and loved ones.Built a comprehensive database of incarcerated persons serving extreme sentences, along with their family contact information and key community organization contacts. Presented at over a dozen rotary clubs in New Hampshire and Vermont to raise awareness about LWOP issues. Led advocacy efforts in Connecticut, convening over 33 individuals representing 8 organizations, and organized coalition participation in Maine and Massachusetts.Launched a pilot educational program for incarcerated individuals, offering a correspondence course that currently services 24 participants, all of whom provided positive feedback.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 54.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -68.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.