Prison Contemplative Fellowship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462349055
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8502968420
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,193,106
- Expenses
- $377,969
- Assets
- $1,918,893
- Liabilities
- $46,256
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHARON FIALCO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHANDRA HANSON (EXECUTIVE DI): $32,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prison contemplative fellowship builds contemplative community that transcends walls. Journeying together as people affected by incarceration, we share centering prayer meditation and foster connections to support healing and transformation, both personal and communal. Through providing books, newsletters and correspondence, developing a database, supporting volunteer engagement, and hosting virtual centering prayer groups and in- person retreats, we offer companionship, spiritual resources, and the steady reminder that each person is seen, valued, and integral to a caring community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Copost volunteer support - in partnership with copost, this program manages correspondence between volunteers and incarcerated individuals. Staff anonymize and forward mail to volunteers, maintaining confidentiality. This program ensures that participants receive thoughtful guidance in contemplative prayer, fostering spiritual practice and personal growth. By facilitating safe, consistent engagement, copost volunteer support strengthens the community inside facilities and demonstrates to participants that their lives are valued and their spiritual journeys supported. In 2024, 75 volunteer-written responses were sent to 40 contemplative practitioners seeking support while in custody. Retreats - together with copost, we host an annual centering prayer intensive retreat for formerly incarcerated individuals. Lodging, food, transportation, and all retreat fees are covered, making participation possible for those who otherwise could not consider it. Pcf funds the retreat and manages logistics, working with copost to ensure that the location, staff and schedule support the practices of those who have experienced incarceration. Retreats allow participants to deepen contemplative practice, reflect on personal growth, and strengthen bonds with peers and mentors. This immersive spiritual experience provides a rare opportunity for healing, renewal, and reconnection with self and community-empowering individuals to continue their journey with hope, purpose, and support. Seven participants attended the 2nd annual retreat (six with lived experience and one active prison outreach volunteer).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 54
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.5%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $256.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 82.8%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.08; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 52% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.5% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $244K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.