Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Parabola Center for Law and Policy
Parabola Center for Law and Policy (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($115,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Parabola Center for Law and Policy does
Mission
To conduct research education and training on behalf of communities harmed by the war on drugs and other marginalized and vulnerable communities. Our mission is to provide everyone with the access and tools to participate in the drug policy arena.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Organized second annual "Federal Cannabis Policy Crash Course" at Providence Public Library. Over 200 attendees received a 4-hour training on cannabis law with an additional training provided the next day to a selected group. The focus was preventing future harms caused by excessive consolidation. The program simplified complex legal concepts and provided leadership training.
$20,709 spent39% of program spendingProvided an educational series with both written and live online components recorded for later viewing. The series focused on fair banking access nonpartisan policy options to promote public health and original research on American beliefs and values regarding who should benefit from reformed policies.
$11,436 spent22% of program spendingContinued creating producing and publishing video pieces for our "Perspectives on Global Equity" series interviewing global regulators researchers and experts. The videos addressed criminal justice worker protection and fair market structures. RTI International conducted independent research that confirmed the videos impact.
$8,076 spent15% of program spendingWe spent $12,520 on other program expenses including producing a report on the research evaluating our educational videos which was accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal; general education and promotion about the organization and our work; gatherings with partners including state-level groups doing similar work; and traveling and presenting to conferences including the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy Anti-Monopoly Summit and Cannabis Regulators of Color Coalition Annual Symposium.
$12,520 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,741.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $36k to $11k (−69%).
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.
70% of Parabola Center for Law and Policy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Parabola Center for Law and Policy’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.
Where its funders are
Parabola Center for Law and Policy draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Parabola Center for Law and Policy's revenue fell 74% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,247 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Parabola Center for Law and Policy
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 Massachusetts
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 Parabola Center for Law and Policy: 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 Parabola Center for Law and Policy?
- Parabola Center for Law and Policy (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($115,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Parabola Center for Law and Policy have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $115,000 in grants to Parabola Center for Law and Policy.
- Who is the largest funder of Parabola Center for Law and Policy?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Parabola Center for Law and Policy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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