How much did DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE grant in FY2024?

Health$2.3MCrime & Legal$468kCivil Rights$445kEmployment$407kHuman Services$308kCommunity Improvement$224kReligion$145kPhilanthropy$138kYouth Development$99kOther$1.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

staffmedicalspecificgoalsformercriminal systemdiverse

2020

neighborhoodsresearchmeaningfulconductreporthostempower

2021

universalcovidadvocacy endend warsitevirtualunderwrite

2022

expandprogressmapyouth-ledalliesreduce stigmanys

2023

baselegalize adultadult cannabisworkersmovementbringballot

2024

march rallyconferenceblackcreatebuildharm reductiondecriminalization

2025

deflectionexecutive committeeindividual's participationparticipation externalexternal executiveadvocacy around

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k12 grants · $277k
$50k–250k2 grants · $210k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS AND LEADERS (VOCAL-NY)$155,000
ONPOINT NYC$55,000
HIV EDUCATION AND PREVENTION PROJECT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY$40,000
TRUTH PHARM$30,000
TURNING POINT$30,000
THE VOICES PROJECT$30,000
SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE$25,000
NATIONAL SURVIVORS UNION INC$25,000
NATIONAL COALITION FOR DRUG LEGALIZATION$20,000
MISSISSIPPI HARM REDUCTION INITIATIVE$20,000
STEP BEYOND WOMEN AND GIRLS INC$17,000
DOCTORS FOR DRUG POLICY REFORM$15,000
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION$15,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.4M · 51 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +144% since the first grant, against +131% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.4M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+144%

+131%

Still filing today

88%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

VO
VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS AND LEADERS (VOCAL-NY)
6× · 2018–2024 · $438k · revenue +171%
AN
A NEW PATH
5× · 2018–2022 · $196k · revenue +253% · 45% of their budget
AN
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT
5× · 2018–2022 · $175k · revenue +79%

Funded once

VO
VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS AND LEADERS (VOCAL-NY)
one grant, 2023 · $70k
CO
CHURCH OF SAFE INJECTION
one grant, 2023 · $51k
OD
OKLAHOMA DONOR ALLIANCE INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +156%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Faith in Harm Reduction Inc

Faith in Harm Reduction co-creates a justice movement which connects people who use drugs, people who do sex work, and communities of faith through the development of harm reduction centered spiritual resources, ritual support, and…

Human Services

National Council of Alcoholism & Drug

Advocacy - Drug Addiction Services.

Health

Drug Policy Alliance

Drug policy alliance ("dpa") addresses the harms of drug use and drug criminalization through policy solutions, organizing, and public education. we advocate for a holistic approach to drugs that prioritizes health, social supports, and…

Health

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

Human Impact Partners

Human Impact Partners transforms the field of public health to center equity and builds collective power with social justice movements.

Health

Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal

Justice Policy Institute

The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.

Crime & Legal

Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition

Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition (NVHRC) began as a community led effort committed to reducing harm and providing evidence-based education, advocacy, and direct services to all community members within Butte Couty, CA and the…

Education

Remedy Alliance Inc

Ensure harm reduction programs have sustainable and equitable access to low-cost materials and innovations for distribution in their communities.

Philanthropy

Cochise Harm Reduction

Improving the lives of people who use drugs in rural communities.

Health

Northern Nevada Hiv Outpatient Program

We provide affordable, high-quality medical, behavioral health & support services for all.

Health

Southside Harm Reduction Services

To promote the health and rights of people who use drugs.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

6/111

the rest of the field

11%

206,158/1,819,454

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/97

Grantees still filing

79/97

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$2,278,918Other$1,599,760Crime & Legal$468,450Civil Rights$445,350Employment$406,950Human Services$307,650Community Improvement$224,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AIDS UnitedDC55.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AIDS United · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Borealis Philanthropy · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc · Solidago Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · New Venture Fund · Public Welfare Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NATIONAL SURVIVORS UNION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 874435672 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NATIONAL SURVIVORS UNION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Drug Policy Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Drug Policy Alliance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Drug Policy Alliance?

More from the funding graph

DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

97 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Drug Policy Alliance?

More from the funding graph