The Carrier Pigeon Post
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992144598
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,780
- Expenses
- $133,827
- Assets
- $84,355
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sonya Cronin (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Sonya Cronin (Executive Director)
- Hannah Katanic (Associate Director)
- Carey Newman (Board Member)
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
Specifically the Corporation is organized for the purpose of 1 publishing a newspaper or other similar periodical for incarcerated individuals and providing related services for the benefit and 2 education of incarcerated individuals and 2 collecting documenting and archiving the stories of incarcerated individuals.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Corporation is organized for the purpose of publishing a newspaper or other similar periodical for incarcerated individuals and providing related services for the benefit of education. 120000 individuals were served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 93% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 103.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 142.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.