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Drug Policy Alliance

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

$598k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $465k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC$180,000
CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING (UNITE OREGON)$150,000
JUNTOS NW$85,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE$50,000
GROUND GAME FUND$40,000
LATINO NETWORK$25,000
HARM REDUCTION SISTERS$20,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC$15,000
MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$10,750
TURNING POINT INC$10,000
MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POOR PEOPLES UNITED FUND: $10k → 16%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $11k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 20%Young Women United: $15k → 14%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY INC (TOPS): $40k → 17%Justice Strategies: $20k → 5%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY INC (TOPS): $34k → 17%The Ordinary People Society (TOPS): $32k → 17%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY INC: $30k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $15k → 12%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY (TOPS): $25k → 17%LATINO NETWORK: $25k → 12%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY (TOPS): $25k → 17%PEOPLE'S HARM REDUCTION ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%HIPS: $34k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%HIPS: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 59 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
62

Total granted

$5.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+16%

Still filing today

86%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VO
    VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $753k · revenue +171%
  • NP
    New PATH
    6× · 2017–2022 · $242k · revenue +253% · 45% of their budget
  • CU
    CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $203k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CO
    Church of Safe Injection Tucson
    one grant, 2023 · $51k
  • OD
    OKLAHOMA DONOR ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • HA
    HYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +108%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
3
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
4
Drug Policy Alliance

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

Health
5
Drug Strategies

Drug strategies promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education and treatment.

Public Benefit
6
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
7
Health in Partnership

Health in Partnership transforms the field of public health to center health equity and builds collective power with social justice movements.

Health
8
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
9
Harm Reduction Services Inc

To increase access to health care, empower people to protect themselves, and educate each other to reduce harm in our communities.

Civil Rights
10
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health

The mission of ccuih is to facilitate shared development resources for our members and to raise public awareness in order to support a health and wellness network that meets the needs of american indians living in urban communities in…

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11
Southern Center for Human Rights

The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…

Civil Rights
12
Prison Policy Initiative

The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 130 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/115
Grantees still filing
76/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $753,000 · HealthVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VO…New PATH: $242,000 · HealthNew PATHA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $198,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECTSan Francisco Drug Users Union DBA Health Initiatives forthe Tenderloin: $135,000 · HealthINTERCAMBIOS PUERTO RICO INC: $126,870 · HealthTRUTH PHARM INC: $125,000 · HealthGEORGIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION INC: $116,000 · HealthWomen With A Vision: $100,000 · Health+28 more: $1,060,048 · Health+28 moreNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $128,000 · OtherNetwork on Women in Prison db…William C Velasquez Institute: $100,000 · OtherPROTECT FAMILIES FIRST: $90,000 · OtherDrug Policy Forum of Hawaii: $75,000 · OtherHealth Equity Alliance: $75,000 · OtherSAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC: $138,500 · OtherSAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERE…DRCNET FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 · OtherTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $99,000 · OtherIndependent Media Institute: $77,500 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $75,000 · Other+39 more: $1,011,060 · Other+39 moreCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $170,350 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR…INSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD 21ST CENTURY: $150,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE …SALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $75,000 · Civil RightsSALVATION …SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNER…OKLAHOMA DONOR ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsOKLAHOMA D…MOTHERING JUSTICE: $40,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING …MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT: $30,000 · Civil RightsNational Survivors Union Inc: $25,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $65,000 · Civil Rights+4 morePARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $140,000 · Crime & LegalPARTNERSH…LATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF: $136,500 · Crime & LegalLATINOJUS…PURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION: $120,000 · Crime & LegalPURPOSE D…Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit: $75,000 · Crime & LegalColorado …Fresno Barrios Unidos: $30,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $27,500 · Crime & LegalVermonters for Criminal Justice Reform: $25,000 · Crime & Legal+5 more: $76,450 · Crime & Legal+5 moreTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS: $185,750 · Human ServicesJUNTOS NW: $85,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesPeople's Harm Reduction Alliance: $70,000 · Human ServicesHIPS: $49,000 · Human ServicesLatino Network: $25,000 · Human Services+4 more: $50,650 · Human ServicesCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $202,950 · EmploymentCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING: $112,000 · EmploymentInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity: $110,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $40,000 · EmploymentDIGITAL ORGANIZING POWER-BUILDING AND ENGAGEMENT LABS (DOPE LABS): $20,000 · EmploymentTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $120,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $66,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $61,000 · Community ImprovementCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $22,500 · Community ImprovementFaith In Action East Bay: $20,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Health$2,855,918Other$1,936,560Civil Rights$665,350Crime & Legal$630,450Human Services$540,400Employment$484,950Community Improvement$299,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $753,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetNew PATH: $242,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $202,950 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $198,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS: $185,750 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $170,350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD 21ST CENTURY: $150,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $140,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetSAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE INC: $138,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetLATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF: $136,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSan Francisco Drug Users Union DBA Health Initiatives forthe Tenderloin: $135,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $128,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetINTERCAMBIOS PUERTO RICO INC: $126,870 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTRUTH PHARM INC: $125,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION: $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION INC: $116,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING: $112,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity: $110,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetWomen With A Vision: $100,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $99,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJUNTOS NW: $85,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetHIV Education & Prevention Project Of Alameda County: $80,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $80,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetIndependent Media Institute: $77,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: $76,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $75,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE: $75,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Equity Alliance: $75,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit: $75,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPeople's Harm Reduction Alliance: $70,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHARM REDUCTION THERAPY CENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetDRCNET FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $66,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Access Points: $66,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetON POINT NYC INC: $61,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $61,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCORPORACION EL PUNTO EN LA MONTANA: $55,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetNEW YORK HARM REDUCTION EDUCATORS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTEXAS CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY: $55,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA DONOR ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBOOMHEALTH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITOL AREA REENTRY PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHIPS: $49,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $45,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 UnitedFoundation to Promote…NEO Philanthropy IncProteus Fund IncBorealis PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…Public Welfare Founda…Elton John AIDS Found…Broadway Caresequity …The Heising-Simons Fo…The Mac AIDS FundSolidago Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Drug Policy Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Drug Policy Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N: 52% of income from government
  • United Advocacy Group Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
  • Latino Network: 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Hyacinth Aids Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home