Drug Policy Alliance

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (Vocal-Ny)3 grants · $285,500
• Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny)1 grant · $180,000
• Center for Intercultural Organizing (Unite Oregon)1 grant · $150,000
• Juntos Nw1 grant · $85,000
• Maine Access Points2 grants · $66,000
• Onpoint Nyc2 grants · $61,000
• Truth Pharm2 grants · $60,000
• Church of Safe Injection1 grant · $51,000
• Oklahoma Donor Alliance1 grant · $50,000
• Partnership for Safety and Justice1 grant · $50,000

Giving over time

Grant history

All 76 reported grants, largest first.

• $180,000

  Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  To support campaign work for supervised consumption sites.

• $155,000

  Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (Vocal-Ny) · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  To build a unified statewide network of harm reduction providers across new york; builder sponsorship.

• $150,000

  Center for Intercultural Organizing (Unite Oregon) · Portland, OR · 2024

  To fund coalition organizer and broader advocacy on oregon deflection programs.

• $85,000

  Juntos Nw · Portland, OR · 2024

  To support coalition's advocacy on oregon ballot measure, deflection programs, and nonprofit exploration.

• $70,000

  Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (Vocal-Ny) · Bronx, NY · 2022

  To support peer network of new yorks summer gathering of peers, harm reduction workers, and others in the harm reduction movement.

• $60,500

  Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (Vocal-Ny) · Brooklyn, NY · 2021

  To improve lives and reduce stigma, launch a campaign to decriminalize all drugs in nys, and guide the implementation of mat in prisons/jails in nys and to promote a health equity approach to drug use in new york by col… read allTo improve lives and reduce stigma, launch a campaign to decriminalize all drugs in nys, and guide the implementation of mat in prisons/jails in nys and to promote a health equity approach to drug use in new york by collaborating with community and advocacy partners to support campaigns and produce policy-relevant materials. less
• $55,000

  Onpoint Nyc · New York, NY · 2023

  To support a campaign to legalize overdose prevention centers.

• $51,000

  Church of Safe Injection · Lewiston, ME · 2022

  To educate and mobilize a strong base of support across maine to promote a personal possession decriminalization policy reform agenda.

• $51,000

  Maine Access Points · Brunswick, ME · 2022

  Movement and base build to support all-drug decriminalization policy in maine.

• $50,000

  Partnership for Safety and Justice · Portland, OR · 2024

  To organize seattle trips for oregon officials and community to study diversion programs.

• $50,000

  Oklahoma Donor Alliance · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022

  To support "get out the vote" work in oklahoma in relation to sq820 to legalize adult use cannabis.

• $40,000

  Ground Game Fund · Manchaca, TX · 2024

  To support c3 work educating and doing community outreach to voters in texas.

• $40,000

  HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County · Oakland, CA · 2023

  To support national black harm reduction networks effort to build communication, administrative, and it capacity.

• $40,000

  Center for Employment Opportunities · New York, NY · 2022

  To strategically recruit, train and support the development of 12 formerly incarcerated people as leaders who will engage direct policy actions.

• $40,000

  Mothering Justice · Detroit, MI · 2022

  Contribution to mi liberation (via fiscal sponsor mothering justice) to seed decriminalization organizing work in michigan.

• $35,000

  Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition · Atlanta, GA · 2021

  To educate the public in georgia on cannabis and drug policy reform and improve hiv/hcv public policy in georgia.

• $34,000

  Hips · Ne Washington, DC · 2021

  To expand the capacity of its #decrimpovertydc advocacy program to reach and directly solicit feedback from the communities most impacted by criminalization and the proposed legislation, in order to develop a true city-… read allTo expand the capacity of its #decrimpovertydc advocacy program to reach and directly solicit feedback from the communities most impacted by criminalization and the proposed legislation, in order to develop a true city-wide grassroots campaign to #decrimpoverty in dc and general support. less
• $30,000

  The Voices Project · Las Vegas, NV · 2023

  To fund mobilize recovery's series unity in action: bridging harm reduction and recovery communities; reform conference grant.

• $30,000

  Truth Pharm · Binghamton, NY · 2023

  To support work on the trail of truth and other parent organizing.

• $30,000

  Turning Point · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  To support an outreach/education program within turning point.

• $30,000

  Marijuana Policy Project · Washington, DC · 2022

  To support the ballot measure that would legalize adult use cannabis in oklahoma.

• $30,000

  Chicago Urban League · Chicago, IL · 2021

  To pass a defelonization bill via multiple strategies, including the release of a white paper in early 2022.

• $30,000

  Fresno Barrios Unidos · Fresno, CA · 2021

  To create a parent mentorship program focused on youth-led workshops, educating parents on the tenets of safety first; address benefits of decriminalization in order to de-stigmatize, build intergenerational understandi… read allTo create a parent mentorship program focused on youth-led workshops, educating parents on the tenets of safety first; address benefits of decriminalization in order to de-stigmatize, build intergenerational understanding and solidarity, and ultimately increase engagement in drug policy reform work locally. less
• $30,000

  Social and Enviromental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2021

  To end the foster systems policing and punishment of families and to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported and to build out a loving, healthy community with and amongst p… read allTo end the foster systems policing and punishment of families and to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported and to build out a loving, healthy community with and amongst people working to shrink the foster system. less
• $30,000

  Truth Pharm · Binghamton, NY · 2021

  To continue and expand advocacy at the local, county, and regional level to increase access to harm reduction measures and decrease carceral and punitive systems.

• $25,000

  Latino Network · Portland, OR · 2024

  To support implementation of deflection programs and advocacy around youth justice.

• $25,000

  National Survivors Union · Greensboro, NC · 2023

  To support pre-reform conference strategy meeting, and the attendance ofapprox 40 drug user representatives.

• $25,000

  Salvation and Social Justice · Trenton, NJ · 2023

  To fund education initiative for the black faith community in new jersey about drug decriminalization.

• $25,000

  Marijuana Justice · Richmond, VA · 2022

  To support upcoming strategic planning process and southern drug policy reform strategy.

• $25,000

  A New Path · Spring Valley, CA · 2021

  To reduce stigma and build a movement of parents who will lead needed drug policy reform and the adoption of harm reduction strategies.

• $25,000

  A New Way of Life Reentry Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2021

  To expand engagement in statewide/national criminal justice advocacy, specifically the drug wars victimization of women and girls and the ongoing detrimental impact to their communities.

• $25,000

  Institute of the Black World 21st Century · East Elmhurst, NY · 2021

  To support local and regional drug policy and criminal justice reform education and mobilization.

• $25,000

  Latino Justice Prldef · New York, NY · 2021

  To promote an end to the failed war on drugs and uplift sensible drug policy reforms.

• $25,000

  Network On Women in Prison · Oakland, CA · 2021

  To end mass incarceration, restore human and civil rights, create opportunities in housing and employment, and to reunify families torn apart by our justice system.

• $25,000

  Salvation and Social Justice · Woodburry, NJ · 2021

  To abolish punitive drug laws in nj through public education, legislative education and utilizing media to change the current narrative around drug use.

• $25,000

  The Ordinary People Society (Tops) · Dothan, AL · 2021

  To continue and expand the established work of the new bottom line campaign.

• $25,000

  William C Velasquez Institute · Los Angeles, CA · 2021

  To support a series of engagement conversations on drug decriminalization in california with grassroots, immigrant and latino political influencers.

• $20,000

  Harm Reduction Sisters · Duluth, MN · 2024

  To support an individual's participation on an external organizations executive committee.

• $20,000

  Mississippi Harm Reduction Initiative · Jackson, MS · 2023

  To help launch programming initiatives and create a street team advocacy group that will educate, train, and create social awareness around drug use stigma.

• $20,000

  National Coalition for Drug Legalization · Clarksburg, MD · 2023

  To support national coalition for drug legalizations community service and public education work.

• $20,000

  Act 4 Sa · San Antonio, TX · 2022

  To support work to qualify a broad criminal justice reform charter for the may 2023 san antonio ballot.

• $20,000

  Poder in Action · Phoenix, AZ · 2022

  To build power to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression and determine a liberated future as people of color in arizona.

• $20,000

  Shot in the Dark · Phoenix, AZ · 2022

  To bring solidarity and health equity to the marginalized populations of people who use drugs and sex workers in maricopa county.

• $20,000

  Sonoran Prevention Works · Tempe, AZ · 2022

  To improve the lives of people who use drugs through street-based outreach, organizational capacity building, and state-wide advocacy work.

• $20,000

  Center for Living and Learning · Van Nuys, CA · 2021

  To change abstinent-based treatment and provider culture in support of decriminalization efforts in 2024.

• $20,000

  Colorado Non Profit Development Center · Denver, CO · 2021

  To advocate for solutions to overdose, including overdose prevention sites and a safe drug supply.

• $20,000

  Intercambios Puerto Rico · Fajardo, PR · 2021

  To promote public education and advocacy campaign focused on drug user health & rights.

• $20,000

  Interfaith Alliance of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2021

  To support assess groundwork necessary to approach a potential ballot initiative in 2024 vs. 2026 in colorado regarding the decriminalization of drugs.

• $20,000

  Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity · Oakland, CA · 2021

  To support work building grassroots leadership, engaging faith allies, and promoting non-carceral solutions.

• $20,000

  Public Defender Association · Seattle, WA · 2021

  To continue expansion across the state and strengthen efforts to organize directly impacted people, and to advocate for policy changes to benefit its communities.

• $20,000

  Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference · Chicago, IL · 2021

  To build the capacity of black faith leaders to educate communities and congregations on a health-based approach to drug policy.

• $20,000

  Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2021

  To continue convening its affiliate network, to get a minimum of 1000 responses to the cannabis justice survey, and to create the cannabis justice platform.

• $20,000

  Texas Center for Justice and Equity · Austin, TX · 2021

  To engage in public education around needed drug policy reforms and public health approaches.

• $20,000

  Texas Harm Reduction Alliance · Austin, TX · 2021

  To build its statewide alliance, organize its membership, and advance harm reduction and drug policy at the state and local level.

• $20,000

  The Fund for a Healthier Colorado · Denver, CO · 2021

  To prevent backslide by current and prospective allies and set the stage for progress on drug decriminalization by equipping these stakeholders with compelling, fact-based messaging.

• $20,000

  Women With a Vision · New Orleans, LA · 2021

  To increase community awareness concerning drug policy issues, in particular continued education for community members to understand the drug war as a driver for increased criminalization and incarceration.

• $17,000

  Step Beyond Women and Girls · New York, NY · 2023

  To support the 10th anniversary freeher march/rally 2024, a national march and rally to end the incarceration of women and girls.

• $15,000

  Urban League of Portland · Portland, OR · 2024

  To support advocacy around deflection programs in oregon.

• $15,000

  Doctors for Drug Policy Reform · Washington, DC · 2023

  To fund work to actively engage clinicians in achieving the decriminalization of addiction.

• $15,000

  Opencollective Foundation · Covina, CA · 2023

  To support black families love & unites work to build a reparations and healing framework for families punished by family policing.

• $15,000

  California Society of Addiction Medicine · Sacramento, CA · 2021

  To promote harm reduction and overdose prevention through the passage of legislation approving safe injection sites.

• $15,000

  Dancesafe · Lakewood, CO · 2021

  To advocate form coalitions and policy campaigns to reform paraphernalia laws and legalize drug checking tools.

• $15,000

  Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center · Honolulu, HI · 2021

  To facilitate public discussion and policy progress on reducing criminal penalties for drug possession and use, liberalizing state cannabis laws, and strengthening harm reduction services.

• $15,000

  Maine Access Points · Brunswick, ME · 2021

  To develop policy and advocacy work; enable map to pay people directly impacted by the war on drugs and people who are actively using drugs who collaborate with map on this work.

• $15,000

  Partnership for Safety & Justice · Portland, OR · 2021

  To ensure that oregon decriminalizes drug use; expand access to recovery and harm reduction services for people across the state.

• $15,000

  Protect Families First · Providence, RI · 2021

  To implement of the countrys first harm reduction center, including local organizing and community education.

• $15,000

  Southern Tier AIDS Program · Binghamton, NY · 2021

  To support continued engagement of its constituency through quarterly town halls and trainings on timely topics.

• $12,000

  The Brotherhood Sister Sol · New York, NY · 2021

  To support youth-led organizing and advocacy project, the decarceral education project, which empowers young people of color to develop informed perspectives on societal inequities, based on their personal experiences w… read allTo support youth-led organizing and advocacy project, the decarceral education project, which empowers young people of color to develop informed perspectives on societal inequities, based on their personal experiences with oppression and grounded in historical movements for racial and social justice. less
• $10,750

  Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

  To support individual's executive committee participation and sponsor 'homeless day on the hill'.

• $10,000

  Minnesota Justice Research Center · Roseville, MN · 2024

  To support an individual's participation on an external organizations executive committee.

• $10,000

  Turning Point · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  To support an individual's participation on an external organizations executive committee.

• $10,000

  Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023

  To support immigrant defense projects work to create/distribute community-facing resources about options for reduced federal criminal sentences and immigration relief for people with certain new york state drug convicti… read allTo support immigrant defense projects work to create/distribute community-facing resources about options for reduced federal criminal sentences and immigration relief for people with certain new york state drug convictions. less
• $10,000

  Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022

  To host a summit for advocates across the nation working on informed consent legislation.

• $10,000

  Opencollective Foundation · Walnut, CA · 2022

  To support black mothers march on the white houses work to bring impacted families and organizers.

• $10,000

  Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2022

  To support movement for family power's efforts to develop a 50-state resource guide on prenatal and parental drug laws.

• $6,000

  Onpoint Nyc · New York, NY · 2022

  To enhance community-based outreach program that utilizes a mobile outreach unit to collect syringe litter, distribute narcan, provide food, clothing, and other essential services.

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