Financial Transparency
Where Your Dollars Go
Live operational figures from our internal reporting period, plus historical amounts from the 2024 Form 990 core pages. Donations support educational programs and the operational infrastructure necessary to provide them.
Registered 501(c)(3)
85-2603315
Prison Professors Charitable Corporation · Founded 2020
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Mission Investment Ratio
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of year-to-date spending is classified as mission investment on our live financial sheet. Meets the BBB Wise Giving Alliance ≥65% standard.
How it's calculated: Mission Investment (Program Delivery + Direct Financial Support) divided by total spending. Source: live financial sheet.
Board Independence
3 of 4 independent
75% independent directors on the 2024 Form 990. Reportable founder compensation shown on the 2024 Form 990: $0. This statement applies to that filing period and should be read together with the complete return.
Legal Entity
Organization
Prison Professors Charitable Corporation is the legal name used on this website. “Prison Professors” is the public-facing name. Confirmation against corporate and IRS records is tracked internally and is not claimed as complete here.
Status
Prison Professors Charitable Corporation
Recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 85-2603315.
Public mailing address
Prison Professors Charitable Corporation1205 BMC Drive Suite #706
Cedar Park, TX 78613
This is the public mailing address used for profile content and donor correspondence. It is not labeled as a principal or registered office pending confirmation of corporate records.
Board members
Names and titles below come from the published team roster. Officer roles are shown only when a title is stored for that person.
Public-inspection requests, including a complete Form 990 package: donations@prisonprofessors.org.
The Math That Matters Most
Cost Per Participant
The real test of a nonprofit isn't how much it raises — it's how efficiently it turns dollars into outcomes. Here's ours, calculated from our projected annual budget and live participant count.
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per participant per year, based on — active users and a projected $900k annual 2026 budget.
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With a $3M budget, we anticipate serving 50,000 participants per year, lowering costs to $0.17 per day.
Less than $1.20 per week
Offer free, self-directed learning resources that lower intergenerational cycles of recidivism and poverty for less than the cost of a cup of coffee per month.
Updated In Real Time
Live Financial Position
Cash, Bitcoin, and BNB holdings — refreshed every minute from public market data and on-chain balances.
Cash on Hand
Bitcoin Holdings
BNB Holdings
Total Assets
The Gap We're Closing
Funding Gap Analysis
We're building solutions to end intergenerational cycles of poverty and recidivism. To serve 50,000 people, we project an annual budget of $3 million. To become good stewards of capital, we're striving to raise operating resources of $6 million, which would give us two years of reserves.
Closing the gap allows us to create more pathways to prepare 50,000 people for lives of meaning, relevance, and dignity, with self-directed learning resources, at a projected cost of less than $60 per year, per participant, or $0.17 per day.
Live · Synced from Sheet
Where Money Is Going
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We anticipate an annualized budget of $900,000 in 2026, which allows us to cover project-development costs to prepare for the introduction of tablets. The tablets will allow us to scale to 50,000 participants. We are reserving funds to make those anticipated expenditures to accommodate additional participants, with at least 10,000 participants before the end of 2026. Numbers below reflect the ratio in real time, before we make the additional investment to grow our impact.
Mission vs. Supporting Costs
0% of year-to-date spending is classified as mission investment
Operating Cost Mix
How We Use Our Financial Resources
~$10
per book delivered
We send a new book each time a person accumulates 10 additional profile points
$2,500
per facility visit
Forward Looking
2026 Annual Plan
Our full-year operating budget projection from the 2025 Board Memorandum — what the next 12 months looks like at the resourced scale.
Annual Budget Allocation
Projected operating costs
Budget Categories
Books, travel, studio, and support staff
Tech engineering and software
Admin salary, health insurance
Detailed Line Items
Projected annual operating costs
The More We Serve, The Less It Costs
Cost Drops As We Scale
Every additional participant we onboard lowers the cost to serve each one. From 500 participants in 2024 to 50,000 at scale, the same operating budget reaches dramatically more people — making every donor dollar work harder.
500 (2024)
$2,836
per participant / yr
4,000 (2025)
$130
per participant / yr
7,200 (2026 today)
$125
per participant / yr
10,000 (2026 EOY target)
$90
per participant / yr
50,000 (at scale)
$60
per participant / yr
Live Impact
People We're Serving
Platform Growth Trajectory
Following nationwide facility visits, enrollment surged
Our Reach
Facilities Visited
Explore the federal facilities where we've delivered presentations and our upcoming scheduled visits.
Historical Record
2024 Form 990 Snapshot
Figures taken from the 2024 Form 990 core pages on file. This snapshot is not a substitute for the complete public-inspection copy.
Historical Record
2024 Form 990 Snapshot
Figures taken from the 2024 Form 990 core pages on file. This snapshot is not a substitute for the complete public-inspection copy.
2024 Expense Distribution
Key 990 Highlights
Verifiable Record
Documents & Downloads
Read filings that are posted here, or request documents that are not yet online. Financial figures on this page come from the 2024 Form 990 core pages, the 2025 board memorandum, or the identified live internal reporting period, as labeled in each section.
A complete public-inspection copy, including applicable schedules and attachments and excluding legally protected donor information, is available upon request at donations@prisonprofessors.org.
Core Form 990 pages (2024)
The 12-page core Form 990 currently on file. This file does not include public schedules or attachments.
Download PDFForm 990 (2023)
Not yet posted. Available upon request.
Available upon requestForm 990 (2022)
Not yet posted. Available upon request.
Available upon requestIRS determination letter
Not yet posted. Available upon request.
Available upon request2025 Board Memorandum
Year-in-review and 2026 strategy from our board. Internal reporting period, not a Form 990.
Read ReportConcept Paper
The case for digital education in federal prison.
Read PaperProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
Verify our financials independently via EIN.
View on ProPublicaOur Promise
Commitment to Donors
2024 founder compensation
Reportable founder compensation shown on the 2024 Form 990: $0. This statement applies to that filing period and should be read together with the complete return.
Public Form 990
We post the core Form 990 pages we have on file. A complete public-inspection copy, excluding legally protected donor information, is available upon request.
Reporting sources
Live dashboards reflect the current internal reporting period. Historical totals are labeled as Form 990 or board-memorandum figures.
501(c)(3) Nonprofit
EIN: 85-2603315
Tax-Deductible
To the extent permitted by law
Funds Education
Supports programs and operations
Help Us Reach 50,000 Participants
Donations support our charitable mission, including educational programs and the operational infrastructure necessary to provide them. Prison Professors Charitable Corporation is recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. EIN: 85-2603315. At scale, it costs less than $0.17/day to transform a life.
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