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Nonprofit · EIN 45-2666807

JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS

Also known as TEXAS JAIL PROJECT

Tax-exempt · CYPRESS, TX 77429

Financials

$435K$505K2023$225K$447K2024
Revenue Expenses · by fiscal year end
Financials of JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS by year, from its e-filed returns
Year endedFormRevenueExpensesNet incomeTotal assetsLiabilitiesNet assets
December 31, 2024990$224,991$446,720-$221,729$379,398$217,122$162,276
December 31, 2023990$435,288$505,043-$69,755$612,111$234,342$377,769
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024

Revenue

Contributions, gifts and grants
$179,637
Program service revenue
$5,800
Investment income
$347
Other revenue
$39,207

Expenses

Grants and similar amounts paid
$16,225
Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
$103,255
Other salaries and wages
$177,387
Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
$305,814
Professional fundraising fees
$0
Accounting fees
$13,365
Travel
$14,986
Depreciation
$10,000
Program services (functional)
$341,579
Management and general (functional)
$93,739
Fundraising (functional)
$11,402

Balance sheet and other

Total assets, start of year
$612,111
Total assets, end of year
$379,398
Total liabilities, end of year
$217,122
Net assets, end of year
$162,276
Net assets without donor restrictions
$59,659
Net assets with donor restrictions
$102,617
Gross receipts
$224,991
Employees
5
Volunteers
7
Year formed
2012
State of legal domicile
TX

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.

NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Krishnaveni GunduExecutive Dir.
Officer
50$103,255
Dr Eboni Calbow CesarPresident
Trustee or director
1$0
Monica LugoDirector
Trustee or director
0.5$0
Daniel MorenoDirector
Trustee or director
0.25$0
Maria Anna EsparzaSecretary
Officer
0.05$0
David HansonTreasurer
Officer
0.5$0
Sarah SloanVice President
Officer
0.15$0
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 7 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Sandra SmithDirector
Trustee or director
0.1$0
Eboni CalbowDirector
Trustee or director
0.25$0
Lisa HoytDirector
Trustee or director
0.1$0
Maria Anna EsparzaSecretary
Officer
0.25$0
Alycia WelchPresident
Officer
0.25$0
David HansonTreasurer
Officer
1$0
Sarah SloanVice President
Officer
0.1$0

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)
13121 LOUETTA ROAD 1330, CYPRESS, TX 77429-5155
In care of
% DIANA CLAITOR
Mailing address (990-N for 2017)
1712 E Riverside Drive Box 190, Austin TX 78741
Principal officer (990 for 2024)
Krishnaveni Gundu, 13121 Louetta Road 1330, Cypress, TX 77429
Principal officer (990-N for 2017)
Diana Claitor, 2712 La Mesa Dr, Austin TX 78704
Signed the 990
David Hanson, Treasurer
Phone
(512) 469-7665
Return prepared by
Key Figures LLC

Mission

The mission of Jail Project of Texas is to liberate communities by organizing with and advocating for people incarcerated in Texas county jails, and their loved ones.

990 for the year ended December 31, 2024

Program accomplishments

  • 1.ADVOCACY, ORGANIZING & MOVEMENT BUILDING (A). Anti-jail expansion Campaign In Harris county, we founded a diverse coalition comprising six organizations, family members of people who died pretrial in custody, formerly incarcerated people, youth and community advocates united in their vision of shrinking the carceral footprint along with increased investments in social services as a means to shrink the carceral footprint. The coalition has 193 members on its listserve, conducted 28 meetings including work parties, two community teach-ins and mobilized over 90 registrations for public comment at Commissioners Court. (B). Casework advocacy (i) Our HelpLine received 470 calls, 1,539 emails and 193 letters from over 35 counties. We responded to over 60% of all calls and emails with 30% of the cases needing multiple responses and interventions. (ii) We filed complaints with the state regulatory agency TX Commission on Jail Standards or supported loved ones in filing complaints to state agencies and law enforcement in over 30 per cent of the cases. (iii) Of the emails and phone calls we received, we handled 414 complaints related to medical issues, 674 complaints related to medications and medical neglect, 440 for people with serious mental illness, 14 for people with intellectual and developmental disability, 27 for people who were pregnant, 23 veterans and approximately 200 related to use of force and injuries. (C). Organizing (i) We multiplied our statewide community base by 3 times and transformed the tone of the quarterly public meetings of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards through intentional organizing, movement building, media outreach and mutual aid. Over four quarterly meetings, we brought over 120 comments in total from community members from 25 different counties but were unable to publish all the videos for lack of resources. We created and published 27 videos of powerful testimonies https://www.youtube.com/@texasjailproject/playlists The energy from these meetings sparked self-led movements in Bexar county, Tarrant county, Harris county and Sabine county. We also mobilized members of the press, legislative staff and both criminal justice advocates and mental health advocates to attend and speak at these meetings. (ii) In January, Tarrant County Commissioner Simmons invited us to participate virtually in a town hall organized in Arlington attended by over a 100 community members, to discuss the alarming rise of custody deaths in Tarrant county jail. Under Sheriff Waybourn, at least 65 community members have reportedly died in the jail since 2017. We joined the Sheriff, allies and advocates from United Fort Worth and Broadway Baptist Justice Network, and criminal court representatives to interrogate the culture and policies that have led to so many deaths. Due to our collective efforts, the Department of Justice is considering an intervention in the jail. (iii) As part of our effort to decriminalize mental illness, we brought 6 public comments from directly impacted families to the board meetings of the Local Mental Health Authorities in 2 counties that are mandated by the state to provide mental health services to the community (D). Litigation & civil rights support (i) Our advocacy, research and technical assistance was essential and instrumental in winning a total of $2.71 million in legal settlements for families of three community members who suffered serious harm in pretrial detention (Chasity Congious https://www.keranews.org/government/2024-05-21/tarrant-county-approves-largest-lawsuit-settlement-to-chasity-congious-whose-baby-died-in-jail and Kelly Masten https://www.keranews.org/criminal-justice/2024-12-02/with-a-775-000-settlement-pending-the-bill-for-tarrant-county-jail-lawsuits-keeps-rising from Tarrant county & Glenn Hayes - one of our bailouts from Smith county. (https://www.texasjailproject.org/2024/08/of-loss-collective-struggle-mid-year-24-newsletter/) Litigation is ongoing in two other cases of over detention which we brought to our allies at TX Fair Defense Project. (ii) We documented Mykala Savage's story and the experience of other pregnant women in Harris County jail in our essays published in The Slate and The Appeal magazines in 2022. After her release, we supported her with mutual aid and legal resources. In February of 2024, after almost two years of struggling to unearth all the details of her horrific time inside Harris county jail, we collaborated with Rights Behind Bars to file a lawsuit against Harris county jail. (iii) We provided referrals in 10 other injury and death cases to national civil rights attorneys and provided technical support to both the attorneys and the families through the intake process. 2. NARRATIVE SHIFT/MEDIA/STORYTELLING (A). In 2024 we were successful in getting 203 stories published on custody deaths, 125 on jail expansion/overcrowding, 24 on cash bail and 60 on mental illness and IDD. TJP and/ our community members were featured or quoted in 43 of these stories. (B). We were featured on a three part series on NPR Here & Now on Harris county bail reform due to the launch of Texas Freedom Stories which was our collaborative effort with national partner Zealous to highlight the success of misdemeanor bail reform in Harris county. (C). National exposure after being quoted in Jessica Pishko's new book about Sheriffs 'The Highest Law in the Land.' (D). Our community stories were featured and our work quoted in at least 28 national, statewide and county level stories including TX Observer, KFF Health News, Boltsmag, NPR, Marshall Project, etc. All the 2024 stories are compiled on this page of our website: https://www.texasjailproject.org/2024/12/texas-jail-project-through-news-stories-in-2024/ (E). We were prominently featured in a new documentary short "Criminal" with Alec Karakatsanis of Civil Rights Corps, that was screened at the Philadelphia Blackstar Film Festival and NYC film festival. (F). "We need mental health care, not a jail cell!" Our lead mental health advocate Dalila Reynoso spoke at over 70 percent of the county commissioners court meetings in Smith county for the past four years. She has been tirelessly shedding light on the criminalization of mental illness in her community and passionately advocating for more non-carceral mental health and substance use disorder resources. Dalila spoke about the tragic suicide of Nathan Lee Johns in 2023 in Smith county jail after he was arrested at a local hospital following a suicide attempt. She was joined by youth organizer Amy whose brother has been repeatedly arrested during mental health crises. (G). In Spring, our lead mental health advocate, Dalila attended a mental health symposium organized by the Texas Tribune in Tyler, Smith county. For nearly four years we have been working diligently on diverting people with mental illness and developmental disabilities from the Smith county jail. Dalila made essential points about the importance of not criminalizing symptoms of mental illness and creating a culture of community based care instead of punishment. Following the symposium, her letter to the editor was published in the Tyler newspaper. 3. POLICY ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENT (A). The Government Accountability Office interviewed us extensively and named TJP as a source in their 2024 maternal health in correctional facilities federal report. We also briefed Sen. Ossoff's office for the Senate sub-Committee on Human Rights' hearing held in August, on pregnancy and births in jails and prisons. (B). Advocacy Spotlight by nationally renowned Prison Policy Initiative on our work forcing Sheriffs to report previously unreported custody deaths. We are very proud of this work that led to 16 previously unreported deaths being reported within 18 months. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/08/06/texas_jail_project/ (C ). In January, TJP?s co-founder & executive director was appointed to the state regulatory agency Texas Commission on Jail Standards' Administrative and Rules Advisory Committee as a voting member. Krish is the only woman, advocate and person of color on this committee with a vote. Through my position, we brought two key rule changes to the committee within a year - a new rule to count out of state pretrial custody deaths and notification to guardians of people with disabilities when their ward is incarcerated. We are confident that these rules will be adopted next year. (D). Appointment of our client & community member Dr. Liz Pinon to the Intellectual and Developmental Disability Advisory Committee run by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, due to our advocacy and relationships. We featured her son's story and her transformation from a parent to an advocate in our January newsletter. (E). TJP co-founder & executive director Krish Gundu was appointed by Harris County Commissioner Briones to the Harris County Resident Advisory Committee to advise the county on potential new jail facilities and alterna
    Expenses $341,579 · grants $4,761 · revenue $16,225

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

Tax yearYear endedDueIRS public records
2025December 31, 2025May 15, 2026Not on file
2024December 31, 2024May 15, 2025990 on file
2023December 31, 2023May 15, 2024990 on file

IRS record

EIN
45-2666807
Tax-exempt status
501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
Foundation status
Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
Donations deductible (Pub 78)
Public charity, 50% deduction limit
Exempt since
2012
Accounting year ends
December
Files
Form 990 or 990-EZ
Assets (IRS master file)
$379,398
Income (IRS master file)
$224,991

Filing history

FormYear endedRevenueExpensesAssetsReturn
990December 2024$224,991$446,720$379,398XML
990December 2023$435,288$505,043$612,111XML
990December 2022$283,780$541,954$714,359IRS
990December 2021–––IRS
990December 2020–––IRS
990-EZDecember 2019–––IRS
990-EZDecember 2018–––IRS
990-N for 2017
Officer: Diana Claitor
December 31, 2017≤ $50,000 receipts––e-Postcard

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 45-2666807).

Questions about JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS

What is the EIN of JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS?
The employer identification number (EIN) of JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS is 45-2666807.
Is JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS tax-exempt?
Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2012.
Are donations to JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS tax-deductible?
Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
Which annual return does JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS file?
Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
When is the next return of JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS due?
The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
When did JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS last file with the IRS?
The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
Who is the principal officer of JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS?
The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Krishnaveni Gundu.
Who are the officers and directors of JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS?
The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 7 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $103,255 (Krishnaveni Gundu, Executive Dir.).
How much revenue does JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS have?
On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $224,991, expenses of $446,720 and total assets of $379,398 at year end.

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