Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
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About Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
Inspiring and accelerating action to end the opioid and drug overdose crisis by convening and supporting partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions.
Focus Areas
Opioid use disorder treatment (MOUD)PreventionRecovery supportsWorkforce/professional educationPolicy to improve access to carePublic awareness and community-driven approaches
Who They Fund
families affected by opioid use disorder (including children/youth)pregnant and perinatal people with substance use disorderslow-income adultsrural and underserved communitiesjustice-involved individuals (criminal justice settings)
About Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts repeatedly backs efforts that move opioid use disorder care from theory into practice, with some of its largest recent grants going to university- and health-system-led projects. Recent awards include $450,000 to University of Washington for building statewide capacity to implement evidence-based interventions in families with OUD, and $446,820 to Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation for a hub-and-spoke model for families with OUDs. That mix of family support, implementation, and system-building fits the foundation’s stated aim of convening and supporting partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions to the opioid and drug overdose crisis. The portfolio also shows sustained attention to communities facing layered risks. Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma received support for mitigating the impact of adverse childhood experiences on Oklahoma families, while Morgan County Partnership was funded for Project Resilience in Appalachia. Other recent grants touch youth-serving systems, tribal and rural communities, and organizations working on recovery supports, workforce education, public awareness, and policy to improve access to care. Across these awards, the foundation favors projects that test, adapt, or scale practical responses rather than one-off service delivery.
What Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Funds
A central theme is treatment access and retention. The foundation gave $270,000 to Housing Works Inc for scaling up a MOUD retention and adherence toolkit, and $243,306 to Thomas Jefferson University for Lowering Barriers, Saving Lives, Reclaiming Health: Integrating MOUD. It also supports emergency department pathways; Emergency Medicine Foundation received $332,550 to leverage the ACEP E-QUAL Opioid Initiative for an ED-initiated treatment quality improvement booster. Prevention and surveillance appear as well. Brown University of Providence received $253,940 for an ethnographic and toxicologic investigation to improve overdose prevention and supply surveillance communication. On the recovery side, Hektoen Institute of Medicine got $233,724 to pilot an intervention addressing intimate partner violence and substance use coercion in the path from treatment to recovery.
How Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$10M
Total Assets
$93.4M
Total Revenue
$2.6M
Total Expenses
$12.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $37K and $161K, with a median of $69K.
25th Percentile
$37K
Median
$69K
75th Percentile
$161K
Geographic Reach
National37 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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