Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts

• The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts funds work across professional education, payer and provider strategies, policy initiatives and public awareness within the opioid and overdose crisis, with its geographic focus given as U.S. About eight in ten of its grants to organisations fall between $33,500 and $225,000, with a median of about $67,500, so a modest request in that range is realistic; its Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality programme is capped at up to $150,000.
• Start with a Letter of Intent or short Concept Note rather than a full proposal, as FORE only invites selected organisations to submit a Full Proposal; applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
• A large share of its grant dollars - 87% in its latest filing - went to organisations it had also funded in the two previous filings, which suggests a relationship-led, continuing-partner pattern worth bearing in mind when timing an approach.
• Check the exclusions before applying: the foundation does not fund 509(a)(3) supporting organizations, congregational religious organizations, private individuals, general purpose grants, payments to individual government employees or officials, fundraising events, non-profit or school sponsored athletic-related events, political advocacy, or endowment funds.
• For the Community-Driven Responses programme specifically, it will not fund start-up organisations or capital projects or the purchase of medical supplies, and academic institutions, healthcare systems and national organisations are ineligible unless partnering with a community-based organisation as the lead applicant and majority recipient of funds.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Equal Justice Works · Mobilizing a legal fellowship cohort to address the legal consequences of the opioid crisis
  $396,4962024 tax year
• Morgan County Partnership · Project resilience: addressing adverse childhood experiences (aces) in appalachia
  $225,0002024 tax year
• Morgan County Partnership · Project resilience: addressing adverse childhood experiences (aces) in appalachia
  $225,0002024 tax year
• University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center · Training school- and community-based providers to prevent and manage pain, trauma, and opioid abuse for new mexicos youth
  $225,0002024 tax year
• University of Washington · Northwest center for family support: building statewide capacity to implement ebis in families with oud
  $225,0002024 tax year
• University of Washington · Northwest center for family support: building statewide capacity to implement ebis in families with oud
  $225,0002024 tax year
• University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center · Training school- and community-based providers to prevent and manage pain, trauma, and opioid abuse for new mexicos youth
  $225,0002024 tax year
• University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center · Training school- and community-based providers to prevent and manage pain, trauma, and opioid abuse for new mexicos youth
  $225,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.