Funding search · substance use and addiction · New Jersey
Who funds substance use and addiction work in New Jersey
15 funders have a record of paying for substance use and addiction work by New Jersey recipients: 475 grants totaling $12.5M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are New Jersey Innovation Institute ($6.6M), Vital Strategies ($3.9M) and Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts ($390,876).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to New Jersey recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
New Jersey Innovation InstituteNewark, NJCharity · may take applications
422 matching grants · $6.6M · through 2024Largest: $815,750 to BARNABAS HEALTH INC — substance use disorder program
Vital StrategiesNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
29 matching grants · $3.9M · through 2024Largest: $550,000 to NEWARK COMMUNITY STREET TEAM INC — overdose prevention (opioid)
Largest: $118,125 to RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY — integrating medication for opioid use disorder into primary medical care: innovative payer and provider strategies for improving treatment engagement, retention, outcomes, and disp…
Largest: $121,250 to BRIDGE INC — irvington high school substance use program
Largest: $25,000 to ST JOSEPH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM — charitable giving/general support - st. joseph's health alternatives to opioids (alto ) program: partnership with eva's villag
The Institute for IntergovernmentalTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $213,561 · through 2022Largest: $78,075 to CAMDEN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — opioid overdose prevention activities and care programs upon release from incarceration
Largest: $571,000 to RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY — to fund a second evaluation of new jersey's opioid overdose recovery program, which links opioid overdose survivors to medication-assisted treatment.
Largest: $250,000 to Sostento Inc — health access for equity - eliminating barriers to substance use disorder treatment in georgia p...
The Release Recovery FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $10,000 · through 2023Largest: $10,000 to ALINA LODGE — scholarship for individual to recieve addiction treatment
Largest: $40,000 to ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — substance use screening in the emergency department and connections to care
Largest: $50,000 to NEW JERSEY RESOURCE PROJECT — fiscal sponsor of sea change recovery community organization: sea change recovery community organization in engaging people who have experienced substance use disorder in organizin…
Largest: $25,000 to CPC BEHAVIORAL HAELTHCARE — to serve our communities by delivering evidence-based services in mental health, substance use, special education and physical health through an integrated system of care designed …
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