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Drug Policy Alliance

Name: Drug Policy Alliance grants, 2021–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

76
grants reported: $2.4M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $20,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

drug policy work advocacy harm reduction build community

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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.

32 grants matching “drugs” · $736,500

$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.
$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.
$15,000
Doctors for Drug Policy Reform · Washington, DC · 2023
To fund work to actively engage clinicians in achieving the decriminalization of addiction.
$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
$51,000
Maine Access Points · Brunswick, ME · 2022
Movement and base build to support all-drug decriminalization policy in maine.
$25,000
Marijuana Justice · Richmond, VA · 2022
To support upcoming strategic planning process and southern drug policy reform strategy.
$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.
$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.
$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
$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.
$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
$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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
$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.
$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
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
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
Dancesafe · Lakewood, CO · 2021
To advocate form coalitions and policy campaigns to reform paraphernalia laws and legalize drug checking tools.

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

$806,500

2021

$473,000

2022

$487,000

2023

$595,750

2024

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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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.