Funding search · substance use and addiction · Connecticut
Who funds substance use and addiction work in Connecticut
15 funders have a record of paying for substance use and addiction work by Connecticut recipients: 70 grants totaling $2.8M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Wheeler Clinic ($852,862), Vital Strategies ($727,190) and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($200,461).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Connecticut recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Wheeler ClinicPlainville, CTCharity · may take applications
38 matching grants · $852,862 · through 2024Largest: $45,000 to SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY — the sor mini-grant is used for campus opioid and stimulant education and awareness programs.
Vital StrategiesNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $727,190 · through 2024Largest: $215,090 to CONNECTICUT HARM REDUCTION ALLIANCE — overdose prevention (opioid)
Largest: $180,492 to CONNECTICUT U OF — 77432 studying how cross-sector alignment, with a social-service focus on transit, can improve substance-use outcomes and reduce treatment costs
Carolyn Smith FoundationHendersonville, TN
3 matching grants · $140,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to SHATTERPROOF — addiction treatment
Largest: $15,000 to Pivot Ministries Inc — addiction treatment & recovery
American Society of Addiction MedicineRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $62,986 · through 2025Largest: $35,697 to YALE UNIVERSITY — support for substance abuse and mental health services opioid str
Largest: $3,000 to Pivot Ministries Inc — drug and alcohol addiction treatment programs
The Prosperity FoundationNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $40,000 · through 2023Largest: $20,000 to CPEN (COMMUNITY PLACEMAKING ENGAGEMENT NETWORK) — cpen employs ten local youth to work in the area and participate in programming activities weekly. a recent focus of program activities has been substance use prevention. cpen's yo…
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $29,046 · through 2022Largest: $17,046 to SHATTERPROOF A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION — addiction treatment locater, assessment and standards (atlas) in the california publicly-funded system
Largest: $80,000 to SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORP — for the formative research phase of a statewide community-based stigma reduction campaign in west virginia, to reduce public stigmas against people with substance use disorder
Largest: $246,520 to HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC — gvp-impact of medicaid value-based payment on substance use disorder treatment in primary care
Largest: $15,000 to SHATTERPROOF — to increase access to treatment atlas, a search tool for historically marginalized populations across delaware to access quality addiction treatment services for substance use diso…
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