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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “overdose”
Where the money went
The Institute for IntergovernmentalTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
184 matching grants · $24.6M · through 2024Largest: $549,013 to RENO COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — preventing and reducing overdose deaths associated with opioids
Vital StrategiesNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
175 matching grants · $22.7M · through 2024Largest: $46,000 to MUSICIANS FOR OVERDOSE PREVENTION — overdose prevention (opioid)
Largest: $25,000 to NORTH PHILLY PROJECT — overdose prevention & community heal
Foundation for a Healthy KentuckyLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $807,127 · through 2024Largest: $80,220 to SOMALI COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE — preventing overdose deaths
Prevention MichiganLansing, MICharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $91,163 to THE EMPOWERMENT ZONE COALITION — pdo grant - preventing overdose deaths in calhoun, genesee, and wayne counties
Largest: $270,000 to TEMPLE UNIVERSITY — stop overdose deaths: monitoring comprehensiveness of state policy to prevent overdose deaths
Largest: $80,182 to BROWN UNIVERSITY — to support a randomized controlled trial of the peer navigator program for emergency department opioid overdose patients in rhode island, with the goal of identifying programs that…
Largest: $250,000 to VITAL STRATEGIES INC — support for vital strategies' overdose prevention work in kentucky that strengthens support for harm reduction strategies and services and increases the capacity of state and local…
Largest: $50,000 to MUSICIANS FOR OVERDOSE PREVENTION — this project will support musicians for overdose prevention in reducing overdose mortality in wnc through narcan/naloxone distribution, overdose reversal training with musicians an…
Largest: $19,800 to MUSICIANS FOR OVERDOSE PREVENTION (MOP) — medical supplies for overdose prevention
Largest: $110,000 to PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — to support the grantee's efforts to build out a base of organizations that can lead overdose crisis response work in the united states
Largest: $50,000 to THE GUIDANCE CENTER — to train 300 clinical and peer support staff with the zero overdose "overdose safety plan", an evidence-based model which bridges a critical gap in how to help people at risk for o…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →