Washington · Nonprofit
DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT
DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,482,882 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ($972,573). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Dave Purchase Project does
Mission
To develop, operate, and promote harm reduction and illness prevention programs for the benefit of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dpp/tacoma needle exchange: drug user health initiative the purpose of dpp/tne is to provide harm reduction services, including access to sterile injection equipment, educational materials and information, safer-sex supplies, medical services, and access to substance use disorder (sud) and opioid use disorder (oud) treatment services to people who use drugs (pwud) particularly, people who inject drugs (pwid), throughout tacoma and pierce county to prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv).
$1,177,658 spent12% of program spendingDpp/nasen: buyers club initiative the purpose of dpp/nasen is to support the promotion and expansion of syringe exchange programs in the us as a mechanism to facilitate front-line public health prevention interventions among pwud/pwid and other marginalized and hard to reach populations.
$8,570,294 spent85% of program spendingResearch and other programs
$324,224 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,072,176.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.8M to $7.0M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 93% · 2019 88% · 2020 72% · 2021 59% · 2022 69% · 2023 73% · 2024 76% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Paul Lakosky
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $419k → $158k.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 46% · 2019 55% · 2020 41% · 2021 32% · 2022 44% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $605k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$1.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT?
- DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,482,882 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ($972,573). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $3,482,882 in grants to DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT?
- NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $972,573 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAVE PURCHASE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Dave Purchase Project →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing