Victims of Injustice Inc Dba Life Support Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204779933
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Rancho Cordova, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9164023750
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,752
- Expenses
- $98,281
- Assets
- $43,245
- Liabilities
- $439
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- VANESSA NELSON-SLOANE (Executive Dir.)
- KEITH CHANDLER (Chairman)
- Kymberly Ketchum (Vice Chairman)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to identify the needs and concerns of the incarcerated population who seek rehabilitation, with particular focus on assisting the lifer population and others who must appear before a parole panel in becoming suitable for parole and articulating that suitability to the Board of Parole Hearings To educate the public and encourage dialogue between stakeholder groups on rehabilitation and reentry and to assist formerly incarcerated, especially lifers and their families, in understanding the parole system. We are the voice and presence of lifers and other incarcerated populations in the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Newsletters: Since 2010 Lifer*Line, a free monthly publication, has been sent via email to now over 3,200 email addresses of prisoner family members and friends, attorneys, prison librarians, parole board members and corrections personnel, providing educational updates on new policies and laws. Nearly 900 indigent inmates are also provided with the newsletter via a volunteer mail tree. Many institutional counselors have requested inclusion on the distribution list; they also reprint the newsletter and distribute it to their incarcerated clients. The second newsletter, California Lifer Newsletter, first published in 2008, is a quarterly publication which members can subscribe to for a fee, and includes court cases, providing legal information to those incarcerated individuals interested in possible changes in their sentences. CLN is professionally published and mailed directly to subscribers in all California state prisons by a professional publishing/mailing service. All aspects of the newsletter, absent the printing and mailing, are done in house by volunteers, accounting for approximately 15% of staff time. Several institutional libraries now subscribe to CLN, as well as numerous attorneys who represent lifers and others at parole hearings and resentencing hearings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.2%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 42%; rating input score 42
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: 28.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.2% of revenue deployed · 42% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.