2026-06-12T13:19:17-07:00 2025-12-31 Crosby & Kaneda CPAs LLP 548 Market St PMB 97503 San Francisco CA 94104 990 2025-01-01 943080408 Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children NETW 4152557036 4400 Market St Oakland CA 94608 Paul Briley Executive Director 2026-06-12 true Tierna Jensen P02447146 5108352727 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Paul Briley 4400 Market St Oakland CA 94608 4726511 false X www.prisonerswithchildren.org X 1993 CA 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. 8 5 53 182 0 4545223 4351420 75623 53355 45722 192154 35966 72588 4702534 4669517 40568 10584 0 3535642 3348358 0 329591 1115997 1072591 4692207 4431533 10327 237984 10280946 10861988 3270701 3613759 7010245 7248229 X 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. false true 1535708 34666 AOUON, LSPC's grassroots organizing arm, has 9 active chapters in CA that engaged in the Abolish Bondage Collectively and Reject Slavery Campaigns,Cal Fresh and Climate Justice in 2025. Our CA chapters work on wide-ranging statewide campaigns and policy efforts to support legal and policy change that benefits incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. The AOUON Newspaper is the vehicle that currently incarcerated individuals use to become involved with AOUON and remain informed about our current campaign work. Our AOUON "inside membership grew to 2,120 members who receive the AOUON Newspaper monthly (as of 12/31/25. AOUON members engage with the Coalition for Family Unity (est and led by LSPC to challenge laws and policies that harm family bonds of incarcerated individuals) as a primary source of communication and mobilization through which families advance advocacy efforts seeking to establish visiting as a right for families. LSPC continues to maintain its Elder Freeman Policy Fellowship and in 2025 trained 4 formerly incarcerated fellows in grassroots organizing. We also organized our annual Quest For Democracy day bringing together over 500 system-impacted people to advocate directly with legislature for policy changes. 1199564 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. 1032323 10584 18689 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children provides support to 7 fiscally-sponsored projects working on a variety of criminal and social justice change issues. Several chapters work on a variety of issues around employment and housing discrimination. In addition to coalition work with many organizations working on criminal justice reform, our sponsored projects work to include incarcerated people to have a voice in creating changes in the prison and jail systems in California. The CA Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) continues to support women's prisons advocating for parole release as well as monitoring inadequate health care services in the CA prison system. CCWP also publishes The Fire Inside newsletter that began publication in 1996 and is the longest continuous publication in the country dedicated to women and transgender prisoners. CCWP continues to provide mutual aid to women prisoners.. The Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) continues to distribute, free of charge over a thousand resource manuals to prisoners, former prisoners and families, providing valuable resource information to people upon release. 3767595 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false false false false false false true false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 31 0 true 53 true false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false X 8 5 false false false false false false false true true false true true true true true true true true true true false CA X X X Mei Lia Sommer 4152557036 4400 Market St Oakland CA 94608 Paul Briley Executive Dir. 50.00 0.00 X X 144604 0 7146 Dorsey E Nunn Board Member 1.50 0.00 X 132300 0 0 Eliza Patten Interim Legal Dir. 40.00 0.00 106881 0 17854 Hamdiya Cooks-Abdullah CFO/Brd Member 1.50 0.00 X X 113400 0 0 Eric Sapp Staff Attorney 40.00 0.00 102696 0 8738 Gillian Henry Dir. 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The Organization has evaluated its current tax positions as of December 31, 2025 and is not aware of any significant uncertain tax positions for which a reserve would be necessary. The Organizations tax returns are generally subject to examination by federal and state taxing authorities for three and four years, respectively, after they are filed. Part XI, Line 2d: Other revenue amounts included in F/S but not included on form 990 Rental expenses $42553 Part XII, Line 2d: Other expenses and losses per audited F/S Rental expenses $42553 false Legacy Dinner 80574 74349 6225 11376 1965 1100 80574 74349 6225 11376 1965 1100 14441 -8216 true 0 0 Emergency Aid 38 10584 FMV Gift cards Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used The Organization has an emergency aid form with criteria for requests that can be made by currently and formerly incarcerated people. These requests are reviewed by our Finance and Coordinating Committees for approval. When payments are approved, the recipient is required to confirm how funds were spent and maintain documentation to the extent possible. X false true false false false false false false false Paul Briley Executive Dir. 144604 7146 151750 Form 990, Part III, Line 3 The Family Defense Project that we ran from Sept 2023 - Sept 2025 ended in Sept 2025. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The documents are given to all board members to review ask questions about and make sure that they are correct. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Review at board meetings, certain board members are asked to excuse themselves from voting on any interest they may have a conflict in. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a Compensation was approved and voted on by board members, as well as having an eval conducted by board members. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b This was discussed voted on and approved by board members. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 This information is provided upon request.