Prison Mindfulness Institute
Legal name: Prison Dharma Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043270385
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- South Deerfield, MA, United States
- Phone
- 4019410791
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,345,808
- Expenses
- $697,465
- Assets
- $3,469,675
- Liabilities
- $14,817
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Fleet Maull (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kate Vita Pires (Executive Officer): $94,663 total reported compensation
- Fleet Maull (President): $65,029 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide prisoners, prison staff, and prison volunteers with evidence-based mindfulness tools for self-transformation and personal and professional development, with a dual focus on transforming individual lives and the corrections system to mitigate harm to families, communities, and social wellbeing.
What it reported doing in 2025
Prison Ministry Programs and Education
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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.
The verdict
MIXED - Most filed governance safeguards are in place and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 71
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.8%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th 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: 48.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.97; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 34.8% of revenue deployed · 64.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $451K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 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 35/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.