Network on Women in Prison Dba Legal Services for Prisoners W Children

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943080408
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
4152557036
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,669,517
Expenses
$4,431,533
Assets
$10,861,988
Liabilities
$3,613,759

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Paul Briley (Executive Dir.): $151,750 total reported compensation
  • Dorsey E Nunn (Board Member): $132,300 total reported compensation
  • Eliza Patten (Interim Legal Dir.): $124,735 total reported compensation

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

Overview

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

LSPC'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, referred over 300 callers to other organizations, LSPC created and disseminated a number of new resource materials through outreach and on LSPC website.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.45; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

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

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.