Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
Invitation OnlyNew York, New York · EIN 82-4973537 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$9.4M
Organizations funded104
Typical grant$59,948
Total assets$93.4M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $33,750 and $126,815.
From the return
How to apply
On its return for tax year 2024 the foundation checked the box saying it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
89% of grants went outside New York.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equal Justice Works | Washington, DC | Mobilizing a legal fellowship cohort to address the legal consequences of the opioid crisis | $396,496 |
| Morgan County Partnership Inc | Berkeley Springs, WV | Project resilience: addressing adverse childhood experiences (aces) in appalachia | $225,000 |
| Morgan County Partnership Inc | Berkeley Springs, WV | Project resilience: addressing adverse childhood experiences (aces) in appalachia | $225,000 |
| University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center | Albuquerque, NM | Training school- and community-based providers to prevent and manage pain, trauma, and opioid abuse for new mexicos youth | $225,000 |
| University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center | Albuquerque, NM | Training school- and community-based providers to prevent and manage pain, trauma, and opioid abuse for new mexicos youth | $225,000 |
| University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center | Albuquerque, NM | Training school- and community-based providers to prevent and manage pain, trauma, and opioid abuse for new mexicos youth | $225,000 |
| University of Washington Office of Sponsored Programs | Seattle, WA | Northwest center for family support: building statewide capacity to implement ebis in families with oud | $225,000 |
| University of Washington Office of Sponsored Programs | Seattle, WA | Northwest center for family support: building statewide capacity to implement ebis in families with oud | $225,000 |
| The Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation | Denver, CO | Denver health's multi-generational approach to prevention and recovery: a hub-and-spoke model for families with ouds | $223,410 |
| The Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation | Denver, CO | Denver health's multi-generational approach to prevention and recovery: a hub-and-spoke model for families with ouds | $223,410 |
| National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project Inc | Albuquerque, NM | Walking in strength | $221,430 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Evaluating & sustaining team lily, a multidisciplinary perinatal care program supporting pregnant people and their families affected by… | $198,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Evaluating & sustaining team lily, a multidisciplinary perinatal care program supporting pregnant people and their families affected by… | $198,000 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | Adapting and testing an intervention for families with a parent in methadone treatment | $197,130 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | Adapting and testing an intervention for families with a parent in methadone treatment | $197,130 |
| Sesame Workshop | New York, NY | Sesame street parental addiction initiative to improve adult-child relationships and family resilience | $189,225 |
| Sesame Workshop | New York, NY | Sesame street parental addiction initiative to improve adult-child relationships and family resilience | $189,225 |
| Sesame Workshop | New York, NY | Sesame street parental addiction initiative to improve adult-child relationships and family resilience | $189,225 |
| Emergency Medicine Foundation | Irving, TX | Leveraging the acep e-qual opioid initiative to facilitate a quality improvement booster for ed-initiated treatment | $166,275 |
| National Academy for State Health Policy | Washington, DC | Strengthening state-level prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction infrastructure to address the opioid and substance use crisis | $146,355 |
| National Academy for State Health Policy | Washington, DC | Strengthening state-level prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction infrastructure to address the opioid and substance use crisis | $146,355 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | National methadone access and quality commission | $137,554 |
| The H E L P USA Fund Inc | New York, NY | Establishing peer support for people with oud who are experiencing homelessness | $134,715 |
| Indiana University Foundation | Bloomington, IN | Strengthening the opioid response: a call to action for formalization of behavioral health paraprofessionals | $133,275 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | Creation of a multi-stakeholder practice guideline to improve access to medication for opioid use disorder in community pharmacies | $128,762 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | Creation of a multi-stakeholder practice guideline to improve access to medication for opioid use disorder in community pharmacies | $128,762 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Equine and culturally grounded treatment for substance use | $126,815 |
| National Council for Mental Wellbeing | Washington, DC | Integrating & supporting peer recovery support & services (prss) in community clinical settings | $117,750 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics | Itasca, IL | Pathways to resilience: pediatricians addressing substance use among adolescents | $112,500 |
| Public Health Institute | Oakland, CA | Ca bridge emergency department moud initiative - phase 2 | $112,500 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | Facilitating buprenorphine access through pharmacist peer outreach | $111,630 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | Facilitating buprenorphine access through pharmacist peer outreach | $111,630 |
| Health Affairs | Washington, DC | Health affairs thematic issue & content focus: research & policy insights about the opioid crisis | $105,000 |
| Health Affairs | Washington, DC | Health affairs thematic issue & content focus: research & policy insights about the opioid crisis | $105,000 |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston, RI | Pharmacy-Based buprenorphine induction and maintenance: overcoming barriers to care through policy analysis, real-world demonstration… | $102,588 |
| The Health and Reentry Project (Fiscal Sponsor Goodnation Foundation) | New York, NY | Leveraging medicaid to advance provision of oud services for people returning from prisons and jails: an evidence-based implementation… | $100,870 |
| Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | Mitigating the impact of aces on oklahoma families | $100,000 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | The availability of buprenorphine at retail pharmacies in the united states: trends, disparities, and outcomes | $98,532 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | Pill taking behaviors that contribute to opioid overdose: a qualitative and national survey study. | $90,591 |
| Agency for Substance Abuse Prevention | Oxford, AL | Faith based support specialist (fbss) expansion | $90,000 |
| Emergency Medicine Foundation | Irving, TX | Pediboost (building opioid use disorder and overdose support and training for pediatrics) | $90,000 |
| Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc | New York, NY | Using medicaid to disrupt cycles of chronic illness and incarceration | $85,500 |
| Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc | New York, NY | Using medicaid to disrupt cycles of chronic illness and incarceration | $85,500 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | Improving uptake of medications for opioid use disorder in public mental health settings: expanded scope proposal | $75,700 |
| Healthy Schools Campaign | Chicago, IL | Advancing substance misuse prevention and early intervention through school medicaid | $75,288 |
| Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs | Washington, DC | Perinatal substance use disorder implementation & policy hub | $74,912 |
| Opportunity Labs Foundation | Brielle, NJ | The role and responsibilities of K-12 districts and schools in combatting the youth opioid crisis | $70,251 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | The effect of school-based health centers on the medical and behavioral outcomes of medicaid-enrolled children exposed to parental opioid… | $65,932 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | Association of state policies for unwinding medicaid's continuous enrollment provision with changes in buprenorphine treatment | $63,730 |
| National Academy for State Health Policy | Washington, DC | Supporting state policy for access to treatment | $63,445 |
| Friends Research Institute Inc | Baltimore, MD | Doing right at birth: reducing stigma and improving recovery through professional education around child welfare reporting | $62,662 |
| Temple University | Philadelphia, PA | Stop overdose deaths: monitoring comprehensiveness of state policy to prevent overdose deaths | $60,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | Randomized trial and analytic chemistry innovations to optimize drug alerts | $59,948 |
| University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation Inc | North Dartmouth, MA | Novel organizational simulation training to improve graduates mastery & attitudes (no stigma) | $59,149 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | Understanding drug use within a rapidly changing supply: an ethnographic and toxicologic investigation to improve overdose prevention and… | $56,439 |
| National Pharmaceutical Association Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | Increasing access to moud using the pharmacist-physician-peer coach (P3) collaborative model | $54,235 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Improving access to and the quality of methadone treatment in the united states | $52,620 |
| Holler Harm Reduction | Marshall, NC | Sustainable rural post-overdose follow-up & harm reduction data monitoring to inform better services | $51,750 |
| Public Health Institute | Oakland, CA | Ca bridge emergency department moud initiative - phase 2 | $50,043 |
| Jewish Family Service of Atlantic County Inc | Margate, NJ | Strengthening families against opioid use | $45,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 104 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equal Justice Works | Washington, DC | Mobilizing a legal fellowship cohort to address the legal consequences of the opioid crisis | $820,538 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | National methadone access and quality commission | $779,473 |
| National Council for Mental Wellbeing | Washington, DC | Integrating & supporting peer recovery support & services (prss) in community clinical settings | $667,250 |
| The H E L P USA Fund Inc | New York, NY | Establishing peer support for people with oud who are experiencing homelessness | $464,011 |
| Indiana University Foundation | Bloomington, IN | Strengthening the opioid response: a call to action for formalization of behavioral health paraprofessionals | $459,063 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Equine and culturally grounded treatment for substance use | $436,817 |
| National Academy for State Health Policy | Washington, DC | Strengthening state-level prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction infrastructure to address the opioid and substance use crisis | $357,758 |
| Regents of the University of Ca San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Evaluating & sustaining team lily, a multidisciplinary perinatal care program supporting pregnant people and their families affected by… | $330,000 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston, MA | Pill taking behaviors that contribute to opioid overdose: a qualitative and national survey study. | $312,035 |
| Agency for Substance Abuse Prevention | Oxford, AL | Faith based support specialist (fbss) expansion | $310,000 |
| Emergency Medicine Foundation | Irving, TX | Pediboost (building opioid use disorder and overdose support and training for pediatrics) | $309,999 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics | Itasca, IL | Pathways to resilience: pediatricians addressing substance use among adolescents | $275,000 |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston, RI | Pharmacy-Based buprenorphine induction and maintenance: overcoming barriers to care through policy analysis, real-world demonstration… | $250,621 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | The availability of buprenorphine at retail pharmacies in the united states: trends, disparities, and outcomes | $240,856 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Northwest center for family support: building statewide capacity to implement ebis in families with oud | $150,000 |
| Health Affairs | Washington, DC | Health affairs thematic issue & content focus: research & policy insights about the opioid crisis | $140,000 |
| National Pharmaceutical Association Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | Increasing access to moud using the pharmacist-physician-peer coach (P3) collaborative model | $132,573 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | Adapting and testing an intervention for families with a parent in methadone treatment | $131,428 |
| The Health and Reentry Project (Fiscal Sponsor Goodnation Foundation) | New York, NY | Leveraging medicaid to advance provision of oud services for people returning from prisons and jails: an evidence-based implementation… | $123,285 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | Association of state policies for unwinding medicaid's continuous enrollment provision with changes in buprenorphine treatment | $102,338 |
| Opportunity Labs Foundation | Brielle, NJ | The role and responsibilities of K-12 districts and schools in combatting the youth opioid crisis | $85,862 |
| Sesame Workshop | New York, NY | Sesame street parental addiction initiative to improve adult-child relationships and family resilience | $84,100 |
| Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc | Asheville, NC | Building access to care through community health centers to treat opioid use disorder / establishment of north carolina regional addiction… | $61,440 |
| Friends Research Institute Inc | Baltimore, MD | Doing right at birth 2.0: de-implementing routine drug testing and reflex child welfare reporting policies in hospitals | $52,467 |
| Frederick County Div of Fire & Rescue Services | Frederick, MD | Community outreach and support team (coast) program | $48,750 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | The effect of school-based health centers on the medical and behavioral outcomes of medicaid-enrolled children exposed to parental opioid… | $43,955 |
| Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc | New York, NY | Using medicaid to disrupt cycles of chronic illness and incarceration | $38,000 |
| Tradeoffs | Philadelphia, PA | Reporting on the opioid and overdose crisis | $36,136 |
| Hektoen Institute of Medicine | Chicago, IL | Supporting opioid use disorder treatment to recovery through piloting an intervention addressing intimate partner violence and substance… | $34,629 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | Improving uptake of medications for opioid use disorder in public mental health settings: expanded scope proposal | $33,648 |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | Precision epidemiology and the opioid crisis: using next-generation geospatial analyses to guide community-level responses in diverse and… | $18,007 |
| Coweta Force | Newnan, GA | Parent elected peer advocate program | $15,001 |
| Addiction Recovery Coalition of New Hampshire | Milford, NH | Arcnh peer recovery support program | $15,000 |
| Avivo | Minneapolis, MN | Addressing the opioid crisis through street outreach capacity building | $15,000 |
| Center for Counseling & Consultation | Great Bend, KS | Oud program development | $15,000 |
| Formerly Incarcerated Transitions (Fit) Clinic Program - Fiscal Sponsor Vot | New Orleans, LA | Harm reduction education and substance use treatment for justice-involved individuals in new orleans, louisiana | $15,000 |
| My Fathers House Nashville | Nashville, TN | Respite care for individuals waiting to transition to residential care who are at high risk for overdose | $15,000 |
| Justice Access Support and Solutions for Health | Albuquerque, NM | Strong roots for strong communities in new mexico | $14,999 |
| Voices of Community Activists & Leaders-Vocal-Ny-Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Strengthening infrastructure to bolster services | $14,944 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9,367,874 | 143 |
| 2023 | $9,024,762 | 103 |
| 2022 | $6,773,116 | 97 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Feb 11, 2026 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202620429349101307
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 82-4973537
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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