Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Jun 2020.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
66 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
9 people listed on the 990; $287K paid to officers and key staff.
Bianca Tylek’s $232K as Executive Director is at the 84th percentile of top reported officer pay among 797 $1–10M civil rights & advocacy nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 7 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bianca Tylek | $231,644 | $224,700 | $237,000 | $169,860 | $150,000 |
| Dana Floberg | $167,586 | — | — | — | — |
| Jan Combopiano | $17,435 | $166,080 | $141,560 | $117,008 | — |
| Luke Noel | $163,485 | $122,720 | — | — | — |
| Andrew Lama | $137,208 | $111,960 | — | — | — |
| Liza Weisstuch | — | $106,877 | — | — | — |
| Celina Chapin | $38,818 | — | — | — | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Worth Rises INC executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Ending prison industry exploitation and dismantling its harmful practices.
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Policy Campaigns
Worth rises organizes and supports campaigns that challenge the policies, institutions, and people who profit from our nation's carceral crisis. We encourage, empower, and equip community members, advocates, investors, elected officials, litigators, and the public to join our efforts or launch their own.
Public Education
Worth rises conducts research, collects data, and performs original analyses aimed at unmasking the harms caused by the prison industry. Understanding the mobilizing power of knowledge, we transform our research, data, and analyses into accessible and compelling content alongside the real stories of directly impacted communities to…
Corporate Campaigns
Worth rises works to weaken the financial stability of the prison industry to diminish its power over policy. We undermine the industry's revenue sources, increase the cost of doing business, reduce access to capital, and decrease the pool of investors.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2021 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY21 | End FY21 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $811K | $2.7M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $2K | |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $924K | $4.2M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $57K | $44K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $867K | $4.1M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants to domestic individualsLn 2 | $19K | $19K | ||
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $281K | $135K | $125K | $21K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $331K | $285K | $34K | $13K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $74K | $51K | $19K | $4K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $53K | $36K | $14K | $3K |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $2K | $2K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $40K | $40K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $92K | $62K | $30K | |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $1K | $1K | $233 | |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $44K | $34K | $9K | $562 |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $20K | $15K | $1K | $4K |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $4K | $513 | $4K | |
| TravelLn 17 | $9K | $7K | $1K | $168 |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $891 | $891 | ||
| InsuranceLn 23 | $4K | $4K | ||
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $975K | $647K | $282K | $45K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 LatestFiled with the IRS Nov 12, 2025 | $2.4M | $2.7M | −$321K | $6.8M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Oct 23, 2024 | $4.4M | $2.4M | $2.0M | $7.0M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Oct 31, 2023 | $2.4M | $1.5M | $879K | $4.8M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 ViewingFiled with the IRS Oct 26, 2022 | $4.2M | $975K | $3.3M | $4.1M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Oct 15, 2021 | $1.0M | $791K | $256K | $867K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2021 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $4,243,912 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 4 of 5 board members independent, 1 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $4,243,912 across 13 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $975,029 across 15 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $4,179,841 assets, 13 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $4,135,389 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2021 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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