Addiction Policy Forum

Analysis

Addiction Policy Forum is a registered charity in United States, based in N Bethesda, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Addiction Policy Forum reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.0m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.8m to $2.3m (-60%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 160%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Addiction Policy Forum sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cure Rare Disease Inc ($2.3m), Hope Care Center Inc ($2.3m) and Dignity Health Foundation-Inland Empire ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $217k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $446k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $532k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 18 employees.