Look2justice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882174179
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Tacoma, WA, USA
Phone
2066593506
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,165,919
Expenses
$787,832
Assets
$617,312
Liabilities
$2,505

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CASSANDRA BUTLER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTOPHER BLACKWELL (KEY EMPLOYEE): $131,750 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Provides peer-led civic education to currently and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones. We work to empower directly impacted people with the skills and knowledge to navigate legislative and policy change so that they may advocate on their own behalf and are not dependent upon the charity of organizations run by people with no lived experience. Through community organizing, research and civic education we advocate for evidence-based policies that recognize the harm inflicted on marginalized communities by outdated criminal policies.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our inside-out civic education and empowerment program is peer-led and developed collectively by our inside and outside organizers. The program helps foster the innate leadership skills of incarcerated activists by demystifying the process of proposing and enacting legislative, policy, and administrative code changes, as well as movement building. In addition to our curriculum, look2justice sends in a regular newsletter to our network of hundreds of incarcerated people in every prison across Washington state. The newsletter provides updates about relevant legislation and insight into how to participate in the legislative process. A national narrative change initiative that brings incarcerated voices into mainstream media, publishing, and public life.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 41.7%; rating input score 42
  • Program expense ratio: 61.7%; rating input score 62
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

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: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 32.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 43.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 57.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 74.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 41.7% of revenue deployed · 61.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $486K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.