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SAM ACTION

EIN 47-3688463 ALEXANDRIA, VA

Revenue 2024
$15,865,551
Expenses 2024
$1,166,233

Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
W99
Classification
3000
Street
107 S WEST STREET 757

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES BY SUPPORTING POLICIES, ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS THROUGH EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY FOR THE ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF LEGISLATION ON ISSUES RELATED TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF LEGAL AND ILLEGAL DRUG USE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ADVOCACY FOR THE ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF LEGISLATION ON LEGAL AND ILLEGAL DRUG USE.

  • FUNDRAISING FOR SET PURPOSES AND ATTAINMENT OF CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES. EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY FOR ATTAINMENT OF PROGRAM OBJECTIVES.

    Expenses $942,329 · Grants $248,272

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • KEVIN A SABET-SHARGHI

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $6,668
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $6,668
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

  • JON TALCOTT

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • BEN CORT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LUKE D NIFORATOS

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $257,862
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $231,946
    Other
    $25,916
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $181,500 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $9,645 related
    Other
    $0 + $40,801 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $25,916 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $257,862 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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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
    $15,865,551
    Expenses
    $1,166,233
    Contributions
    $8,601,743
    Grants paid
    $248,272
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,382,221
    Expenses
    $2,295,757
    Contributions
    $1,576,210
    Grants paid
    $301,304
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,550,652
    Expenses
    $717,979
    Contributions
    $3,270,607
    Grants paid
    $250

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,314,284
    Expenses
    $1,984,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,320,772

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,494,761
    Expenses
    $1,637,280
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,196,177

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $894,194
    Expenses
    $1,549,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,027,908

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,401,405
    Expenses
    $2,785,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,195,519

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,301,405
    Expenses
    $2,794,169
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,203,752

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,437,650
    Expenses
    $468,856
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,456,011

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,587,940
    Expenses
    $1,404,571
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,225,274

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.