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MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS

MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS is a Public Charity headquartered in BOSTON, MA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $5.3M revenue, $4.8M expenses, $3.7M total assets. 60 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $5.6M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 042523362 BOSTON, MA Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$5.3M
Total Expenses$4.8M
Total Assets$3.7M
Grant Records60
Funding Total$5.6M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO CHALLENGE THE CARCERAL SYSTEM THROUGH LITIGATION, ADVOCACY, CLIENT COUNSELING, PARTNERSHIP WITH IMPACTED INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES, AND OUTREACH TO POLICYMAKERS AND THE PUBLIC IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF INCARCERATED PERSONS AND END HARMFUL CONFINEMENT.

Where $100 goes at Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services Inc DBA Prisoners' Legal Svcs

How Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services Inc DBA Prisoners' Legal Svcs divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 8 years.

$82 Programs the work itself
$11 Management running the organization
$7 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $82 for programs

$82
Pls's three largest general areas of work are our intake process, which brings in new client concerns from prisoners held in massachusetts correctional institutions; our litigation work, which…
All program spending · Reported in the filing: 160 clients
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

ATTORNEY Albert Troisi
ATTORNEY Bonita P Tenneriello
DIRECTOR Celestino Colon
INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (UNTIL 9/24) Cheryl Zoll
DIRECTOR Cloe Pippin
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (EFF. 2/25) David Rini

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Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$3,979,297 32 grants
Civil Rights & Social Justice
$604,500 12 grants
Health & Medicine
$142,000 3 grants
Education
$100,000 2 grants
Human & Social Services
$58,000 3 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $5.3M $4.8M $3.7M
2024 $4.8M $4.6M $3.5M
2023 $4.0M $4.0M $3.4M
2022 $3.7M $3.5M $2.8M
2021 $3.3M $3.1M $2.6M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $3.3M to $5.3M (+59%), with total assets most recently reported at $3.7M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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