Marijuana tax · Justice Reinvestment Fund · FY2022–25 ledger
Justice Reinvestment: salaries, scholarships, and named grants.
After administration, the law requires a 35 / 35 / 30 split. Health Services cash, FY2022–25, is mostly payroll and redacted scholarships. This extract cannot show the remainder split or annual use reports; that is not proof the grants were illegal.
Full introduction and scope
Most of this cash is salaries and redacted scholarships. The named grants are the part you can argue about.
The law says leftover Justice Reinvestment money, after administration, should split 35% to county public health, 35% to nonprofit grants, and 30% to important public health issues. Health Services cash on this extract is mostly payroll, redacted “scholarships,” and a late list of named nonprofits. The statute is broad enough that many of those grants can be legal on their face. The split itself, and the annual use reports, are what this page cannot show.
How to read the evidence
How to read thisThe dollars went there. Whether that matches the leftover split is a different question.
Figures below are signed Health Services cash, FY2022–25, unless marked as the attached portal brief (which includes unverified FY2026). A payment to a nonprofit is not proof the grant paid for its politics. Missing reports would be a problem if they were never filed. They are not proof the grants were illegal.
Key findings ↓Civic instrument
Read the fine print
01 / ADHS cash, FY2022–25 · $19.36 million
What actually left the fund.
The attached brief’s FY2022–25 annual totals match this ADHS ledger, rounded. Its $25.14 million / 26,145-row headline includes FY2026 YTD, which we have not verified. Category percentages in that brief are of the unverified full-period total. Ours are of verified ADHS FY2022–25 cash.
02 / What the statute allows, and what it still requires
First administration. Then a leftover split you cannot see here.
§ 36-2863 pays reasonable administration first, then sends the leftover 35% to county public health, 35% to Health Services nonprofit grants, and 30% to Health Services for important public health issues. “Justice reinvestment programs” include treatment, diversion, workforce, reducing the prison population, and restoring rights. Grants skip ordinary procurement. That is why a voter-registration group, a clinic, and a reentry program can all be paid from the same tax without a bidding fight in these books. It is not a blank check: grantees still owe an annual use report, and the Treasurer still owes the 35 / 35 / 30 math.
The remainder split the Treasurer is supposed to run. Tap a branch.
County 35%
Supposed to leave the state books.
ADHS “aid to counties” is $805k over four years. Treasurer JRF outflows are $3.31M to N/A. Neither is a county-by-county remainder worksheet. If counties got their 35%, the statewide extract does not show it.
§ 36-2863(C)(1)Nonprofit 35%
Named grants showed up late.
Nonprofit pot: $0, $34, $615k, then $2.40M. That ramp is not 35% of a measured leftover, because the leftover is not on this page. Grantees must file annual use reports. Those reports are how you test what a grant purchased. They are not in this extract.
§ 36-2863(C)(2), (D), (G)Public health 30%
One accounting label, several uses.
Two-thirds of ADHS JRF cash is coded Public Health Issues: redacted scholarships, hospital/neonatal bills, payroll, marketing, EMS formula grants of $221k × 4. “Important public health issues” is doing a lot of work.
§ 36-2863(C)(3)03 / Named Nonprofit Organizations pot · $3.02M
Who got the named grants — and what they are.
Ledger dollars are FY2022–25 signed net. Orientation notes are from the attached spending brief (organization sites, 990s, InfluenceWatch, Vitalyst). A mission is not an invoice. The cash is still the cash.
The brief’s political core
One Arizona
Voter registration and mobilization coalition. The brief documents Open Society / Telescope (Arabella) / Voter Registration Project money and partners including Planned Parenthood, CAIR, Poder Latinx. InfluenceWatch: left-of-center. Closest the list comes to electoral infrastructure paid with marijuana tax.
Grant agreements and the § 36-2863(D) use report would show whether this cash paid registration. The checkbook only shows the payee.
Just Communities Arizona
Mission the brief quotes: a world where prisons and jails are unnecessary. Community Safety Teams with resident stipends. Board ties the brief lists: Planned Parenthood AZ, ACLU-AZ, NARAL, Common Cause. Vitalyst’s 2025 published award is $475,000 — not the brief’s $500k–$1M, and not the $101,762 already on this ledger. Different instruments.
Cihuapactli Collective
Largest direct NPO-pot payee. Brief: birth equity / reproductive-justice advocacy, “decolonization,” 2–10 staff, Charity Navigator two stars. Scale vs size is the oversight question. The dollars match.
Stuck Community Acupuncture
Flagstaff clinic. Brief: “health justice,” gender-affirming framing. The policy question the brief asks is the right one: why is this the marijuana-tax reinvestment fund?
The rest of the 18
- Regional Center for Border Health$322,060.92
- Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona (fiscal agent)$179,485.27
- Friendly House — immigration / workforce / school$165,918.13
- Our Sister Our Brother — child-welfare reform$154,676.69
- Hushabye Nursery — neonatal substance exposure$154,075.53
- Persevere — prison coding / reentry jobs$149,968.46
- Northland Family Help Center$149,301.46
- Constructing Circles of Peace$148,406.63
- Jobs for Arizona’s Graduates$143,871.18
- Southern Arizona Legal Aid$142,091.90
- Phoenix Indian Center$128,821.35
- Arouet Foundation$107,433.69
- Axiom Community of Recovery$70,466.22
- Vitalyst Health Foundation (direct)$46,833.68
04 / Fiscal agent
~$10 million announced. $47k to Vitalyst on this ledger.
That is not a $9.6 million hole in the bank. It is a visibility hole. Vitalyst/TAPAZ’s April 2025 instructions describe a one-to-four-year, cost-reimbursement pool of approximately $10 million, expected August 1, 2025. Subawards Vitalyst publishes (Just Communities, Women’s Foundation, and others) do not have to appear as state payees. The checkbook will keep looking empty while the network gets paid downstream.
The brief names Abolish Private Prisons, Affirm, and a Women’s Foundation BIPOC initiative as sub-grantees. Those names are the reason the fiscal-agent model matters: politically sensitive work can sit one layer below OpenBooks. Applicant instructions ↗ · Awardee page ↗
05 / The law already required the proof
The law already required the documents that would settle this.
The open compliance questions are narrower than a culture fight. Were the Treasurer’s leftover transfers run 35 / 35 / 30? Did every grantee file the annual use report? Did Health Services send the grant list to JLBC? This extract does not contain those documents. A 2026 resolution (SCR 1047) asked whether the Attorney General should control this money. It was not enacted. The spending continues under Health Services either way.
Grantee annual use reports
§ 36-2863(D). This is how you test One Arizona, JCA, Cihuapactli, Stuck — not by donor lists alone.
ADHS report to JLBC
§ 36-147, due July 1: expenditures by program and a list of grants. Baseline books show rounded fund totals. The grant list is the document.
Treasurer 35/35/30 worksheets
Semiannual. Without them the statutory split is a slogan.
Sources
Read the originals.
- Attached spending brief: OpenBooks portal extract (claims 26,145 transactions, FY2022–26), InfluenceWatch, organization sites, IRS 990s, Vitalyst. FY2026 and the $25.14M headline are not verified in this warehouse.
- This warehouse: ADHS JUSTICE REINVESTMENT FUND signed EX, FY2022–25 — aggregate JSON.
- § 36-2863 · § 36-2856 · § 36-147
- JLBC FY2026 DHS baseline — rounded FY2024 actual $5,546,200.
- Vitalyst instructions, 4/14/2025 · 2025 awardees
Cash on a payee is a fact. What the grant purchased is a document. Donor networks are context. The statute is why none of this had to look like “enforcement.”