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DRUG POLICY ACTION

EIN 52-1951197 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$8,567,359
Expenses 2024
$6,943,741

Program services were 97.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R20
Classification
3000
Street
131 WEST 33RD STREET 15TH FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DEREK OSCAR HODEL

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • KENNETH T MONTEIRO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SONDRA YOUDELMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUAN CARTAGENA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • PAMELA G LICHTY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • KASSANDRA FREDERIQUE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $323,198
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $278,754
    Other
    $44,444
    Hours/week
    8 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $278,619 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $135 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $28,066 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $16,378 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $323,198 related

  • MELISSA GARCIA

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $122,123
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $98,408
    Other
    $23,715
    Hours/week
    8 + 40 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,567,359
    Expenses
    $6,943,741
    Contributions
    $8,000,000
    Grants paid
    $6,605,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,255,022
    Expenses
    $2,373,132
    Contributions
    $5,000,000
    Grants paid
    $1,365,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,217,940
    Expenses
    $5,989,024
    Contributions
    $3,050,760
    Grants paid
    $5,756,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

  • DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE

    $6,600,000

    2024 TO SUPPORT ALLIANCE'S OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

  • DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE

    $5,250,000

    2022 TO SUPPORT ALLIANCE'S OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

  • DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE

    $860,000

    2023 TO SUPPORT ALLIANCE'S OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

  • MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT

    $178,000

    2022 TO SUPPORT THE BALLOT MEASURE THAT WOULD LEGALIZE ADULT USE CANNABIS IN OKLAHOMA

  • UNITE OREGON ACTION

    $145,000

    2023 TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF HB 4002/SB 5204 AND TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY FOR DRUG POLICY ADVOCACY

  • MIKE SCHMIDT FOR MULTNOMAH DA

    $75,000

    2023 TO SUPPORT THE MIKE SCHMIDT CAMPAIGN

  • LATINO NETWORK

    $65,000

    2023 TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF HB 4002/SB 5204 AND TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY FOR DRUG POLICY ADVOCACY

  • THE URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND

    $65,000

    2023 TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF HB 4002/SB 5204 AND TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY FOR DRUG POLICY ADVOCACY

  • IMAGINE BLACK

    $65,000

    2023 TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF HB 4002/SB 5204 AND TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY FOR DRUG POLICY ADVOCACY

  • GROUND GAME FUND (REGISTER 2 VOTE FUND)

    $60,000

    2022 TO SUPPORT GROUND GAME TEXAS FUND'S WORK ON A BALLOT MEASURE CAMPAIGN IN SAN ANTONIO

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.