California · Nonprofit
DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION
DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,182 to it, the largest being MYER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Drug Awareness Foundation does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to provide education and resources focused on the prevention of drug experimentation, drug abuse, and drug related deaths. The organization has a particular focus on providing education and resources addressing the serious and deadly heath risks posed by fentanyl and drugs laced with fentanyl.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Juli shamash, president of the Drug Awareness Foundation, sponsored and advocated for ca sb864 tyler's law, which requires mandatory fentanyl testing whenever california hospitals order a standard five-panel drug test. It was signed by california governor gavin newsom on august 22, 2022 and it went into effect on january 1, 2023. We encourage school districts to have naloxone in schools and have their school police carry it.we contact universities and urge them to have naloxone in all of their dorms and to include information in their freshman orientation about fentanyl-poisoned drugs.we speak to college fraternities and sororities to teach about harm reduction and to give students the tools to make informed decisions. We provide access to naloxone and fentanyl testing strips and explain how to use them.we put up billboards, bus ads, and street level posters to warn the public about fentanyl-poisoned drugs.we have booths at community events to educate and raise awareness. We speak to schools, religious, parent, and professional organizations about addiction and overdose prevention. We post on social media to raise awareness and inform about harm reduction. We get local government…
$34,362 spentof which $100 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,362.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $80k to $141k (+76%).
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.
100% of DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Juli A Shamash
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $33k → $36k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 63% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
50% of DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION?
- DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,182 to it, the largest being MYER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $139,182 in grants to DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION?
- MYER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing