How much does Drug Policy Alliance give?

Drug Policy Alliance reported 11 grants totaling $598,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Drug Policy Alliance fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Civil Rights (17%), Crime & Legal (15%).

Who are Drug Policy Alliance's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc ($753k), New PATH ($242k), Chicago Urban League ($203k).

Does Drug Policy Alliance fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Drug Policy Alliance?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AIDS United, Foundation to Promote Open Society, NEO Philanthropy Inc.

Where is Drug Policy Alliance based?

Drug Policy Alliance is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Drug Policy Alliance

Dpa improves people's lives by expanding health and addiction services while reducing arrests and incarceration.

$598k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2025: 14
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $180,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 48; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Drug Policy Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

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

HealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	11	$596k	64%
FY2024	14	$487k	50%
FY2023	16	$473k	81%
FY2022	34	$787k	21%
FY2021	43	$888k	12%
FY2020	45	$973k	22%
FY2019	48	$1.1M	31%
FY2018	46	$954k	26%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.2MCivil Rights$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$371kCommunity Improvement$276kEmployment$241kPublic Benefit$232kArts & Culture$118kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc	$753,000	9	1%
New PATH	$242,000	6	45%
Chicago Urban League	$202,950	6	1%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project	$198,000	6	1%
The Ordinary People Society Tops	$185,750	6	10%
Center for Intercultural Organizing	$170,350	2	0%
Institute of the Black World 21st Century	$150,000	6	17%
Partnership for Safety and Justice	$140,000	7	7%
Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc	$138,500	6	3%
Latinojustice Prldef	$136,500	6	1%

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All grantees of Drug Policy Alliance by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc	$753,000	9	1%
New PATH	$242,000	6	45%
Chicago Urban League	$202,950	6	1%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project	$198,000	6	1%
The Ordinary People Society Tops	$185,750	6	10%
Center for Intercultural Organizing	$170,350	2	0%
Institute of the Black World 21st Century	$150,000	6	17%
Partnership for Safety and Justice	$140,000	7	7%
Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc	$138,500	6	3%
Latinojustice Prldef	$136,500	6	1%
San Francisco Drug Users Union DBA Health Initiatives forthe Tenderloin	$135,000	3	19%
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children	$128,000	5	1%
Intercambios Puerto Rico Inc	$126,870	6	1%
Truth Pharm Inc	$125,000	5	6%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center	$120,000	6	0%
Purpose Dignity Action	$120,000	6	0%
Georgia Harm Reduction Coalition Inc	$116,000	6	1%
Center for Living and Learning	$112,000	6	4%
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity	$110,000	6	3%
Women With A Vision	$100,000	6	1%
William C Velasquez Institute	$100,000	4	n/a
The Brotherhood Sister Sol Inc	$99,000	6	0%
Protect Families First	$90,000	6	n/a
Juntos Nw	$85,000	1	8%
HIV Education & Prevention Project Of Alameda County	$80,000	3	1%
North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition	$80,000	4	2%
Independent Media Institute	$77,500	5	2%
The New York Academy of Medicine	$76,500	5	0%
Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N	$75,000	3	2%
Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii	$75,000	5	n/a
California Society of Addiction Medicine	$75,000	5	3%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$75,000	4	0%
Health Equity Alliance	$75,000	5	1%
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit	$75,000	3	3%
People's Harm Reduction Alliance	$70,000	5	3%
Harm Reduction Therapy Center	$70,000	2	3%
Drcnet Foundation Inc	$67,500	5	17%
Fusion Partnership Inc	$66,000	4	0%
Maine Access Points	$66,000	2	4%
On Point NYC Inc	$61,000	2	0%
Community Partners	$61,000	3	0%
Southerners on New Ground Inc	$60,000	3	1%
Corporacion El Punto En la Montana	$55,000	2	31%
New York Harm Reduction Educators Inc	$55,000	2	1%
Texas Center for Justice and Equity	$55,000	3	3%
Church of Safe Injection Tucson	$51,000	1	n/a
The Drug Policy Forum of Texas Inc	$50,000	5	n/a
Oklahoma Donor Alliance Inc	$50,000	1	10%
Boomhealth	$50,000	2	0%
Capitol Area Reentry Program Inc	$50,000	2	15%
Hips	$49,000	2	1%
Hyacinth AIDS Foundation Inc	$45,800	1	1%
DanceSafe Inc	$45,000	3	1%
Ground Game Fund	$40,000	1	n/a
Mothering Justice	$40,000	1	1%
Turning Point Inc	$40,000	2	n/a
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Urban Survivors Union	$35,000	2	n/a
Marijuana Policy Project	$30,000	1	1%
Mobilize Recovery	$30,000	1	2%
Fresno Barrios Unidos	$30,000	1	1%
Roosevelt University	$30,000	1	0%
Fair Share Housing Center Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Exponents Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project Ico Justice Now	$28,500	2	n/a
Legal Services for Children Inc	$27,500	1	1%
Hips	$25,000	1	n/a
Revolve Impact LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
Marijuana Justice	$25,000	1	10%
Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform	$25,000	1	n/a
Latino Network	$25,000	1	0%
Opencollective Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
National Survivors Union Inc	$25,000	1	100%
center for law and justice	$25,000	1	n/a
Council for Court Excellence	$25,000	1	3%
The Chicago Recovery Alliance	$25,000	1	1%
Little Globe Inc	$25,000	1	7%
Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition	$24,420	1	5%
One Voice	$24,000	2	n/a
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network	$22,500	2	1%
Mississippi Harm Reduction Initiative	$20,000	1	7%
Ehs Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Utah Harm Reduction Coalition	$20,000	1	n/a
Impact Network	$20,000	2	n/a
William Marsh Rice University	$20,000	1	0%
Act 4 SA	$20,000	1	5%
Shot in the Dark Az	$20,000	1	16%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Fund for the City of New York Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Southern Coalition for Social Justice	$20,000	1	n/a
The Archer Group	$20,000	1	1%
Sonoran Prevention Works	$20,000	1	0%
Interfaith Alliance of Colorado	$20,000	1	4%
Poder in Action	$20,000	1	1%
National Coalition for Drug Legalization	$20,000	1	n/a
Faith In Action East Bay	$20,000	1	2%
Texas Harm Reduction Alliance	$20,000	1	1%
Southern Colorado Harm Reduction Association	$20,000	1	14%
Global Exchange	$20,000	1	n/a
Digital Organizing Power-Building and Engagement Labs (Dope Labs)	$20,000	1	n/a
Harm Reduction Sisters	$20,000	1	1%
Prevention Point Pittsburgh	$19,628	1	n/a
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$18,500	1	0%
Broken No More	$17,500	1	26%
Goods and Services	$17,260	1	n/a
Step Beyond Women and Girls Inc	$17,000	1	n/a
Urban League of Portland Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center	$15,000	1	0%
Orange County Needle Exchange Program	$15,000	1	n/a
DOCTORS FOR CANNABIS REGULATION dba Doctors for Drug Policy Reform	$15,000	1	44%
Project Inform	$15,000	1	3%
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition	$15,000	1	0%
Southern Tier AIDS Program Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program dba Colorado Circles for Change	$15,000	1	4%
United Advocacy Group Inc	$15,000	1	2%
The Center for Law & Justice Inc	$15,000	1	11%
Puerto Rico Community Network for Clinical Services Research and Health Ad	$15,000	1	0%
Bold Futures Nm	$15,000	1	1%
Johns Hopkins University	$15,000	1	0%
People for the American Way Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless	$10,750	1	n/a
Repairers of the Breach	$10,000	1	0%
National Center for Civic Innovation In	$10,000	1	0%
Minnesota Justice Research Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Poor People's United Fund	$9,900	1	20%
Law Enforcement Action Partnership Inc	$9,450	1	1%
Iowans for Safe Access	$8,500	1	n/a
A Milton Miller Memorial Fund Inc	$7,500	1	1%

Drug Policy Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 101.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AIDS UnitedDC56× affinity26 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 · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Mac AIDS Fund · Solidago Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Drug Policy Alliance

How much does Drug Policy Alliance give?: Drug Policy Alliance reported 11 grants totaling $598,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Drug Policy Alliance fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Civil Rights (17%), Crime & Legal (15%).
Who are Drug Policy Alliance's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc ($753k), New PATH ($242k), Chicago Urban League ($203k).
Does Drug Policy Alliance fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Drug Policy Alliance?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AIDS United, Foundation to Promote Open Society, NEO Philanthropy Inc.
Where is Drug Policy Alliance based?: Drug Policy Alliance is based in NY.