Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION
MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,786,670 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($5,603,412). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $987k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $949k
What Marijuana Policy Project Foundation does
Mission
To distribute educational information to the public about marijuana by increasing, identifying, and activating supporters of non-punitive, non-coercive marijuana policies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Coalition engagement & public education: mppf worked in various states to increase public support for non-punitive, non-coercive marijuana policies, including mt, sd, al, ct, de, hi, la, md, sc, va and others. Mpp foundation also engaged in a range of activities to build support for mppf's mission among the public, including presence at events, providing information online through its website, email, social media, and other online engagement channels, and producing collateral.
$447,538 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,538.
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 2018 to 2019, from $793k to $3.4M (+326%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.4M.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT 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
MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 99% · 2019 93% · 2020 69% · 2021 83% · 2022 62% · 2023 73% — 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
18% of MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION'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
78% of MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Marijuana Policy Project · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT 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 MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION?
- MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,786,670 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($5,603,412). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,786,670 in grants to MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $5,603,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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