About Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative
The Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative (RALI) supports programs that help prevent the misuse of prescription medicines by bringing together community leaders and elected officials to promote education, safe use and disposal, and prevention strategies to address the opioid crisis.
Focus Areas
opioid preventionprescription drug misuse preventionsafe drug disposalcommunity education and outreachyouth and family prevention
Who They Fund
Maryland residents / communitiesindividuals at risk of opioid misuse or overdosecommunity members participating in disposal eventshealthcare and public-health stakeholders / coalition members (summit and institute participants)
Funding Style
About Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative
A $505,000 grant to Community Anti-drug Coalitions of America anchors the Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative’s 2023 giving and shows how central convening and prevention programming are to its work. The grant was directed to safe disposal pouch events, mid year institute programming, and Maryland follow-up summit activities, which fits the organization’s broader pattern of supporting prescription drug misuse prevention through education, safe use, and disposal efforts. As a public charity, Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative reported $594,700 in annual grants for 2023 against $441,346 in assets, with a grantmaking profile built around relatively small awards and targeted project support. Its recent grantees include Young People in Recovery in Denver and Portland Recovery Community Center in Portland, Maine, alongside organizations working on opioid crisis response, outreach, and community education. The foundation’s work is national in scope, but it favors local and regional partners that can carry out specific campaigns, events, and prevention activities. The recent record also shows support for coalition-building and follow-up programming rather than unrestricted institutional funding.
What Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative Funds
Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative supports opioid prevention through a mix of campaign funding, education, and community outreach. In one example, it gave $25,000 to Young People in Recovery in Denver to support a campaign addressing the current opioid crisis. It also awarded $10,000 to Nonviolence Works Inctaos Behavioral Health in Taos, New Mexico for the same campaign, showing that the initiative uses project-specific grants to reach different community settings. Prevention education appears alongside recovery-oriented outreach in its grant list. The foundation gave $8,000 to Minnesota Farm Bureau Foundation in Saint Paul for the campaign addressing the current opioid crisis, and $5,500 to Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville for that same purpose. These grants point to a focus on public awareness and local engagement rather than a single service model.
How Rx Abuse Leadership Initiative Gives
Typical grants cluster around a modest range, with p25 at $6,000, median at $10,000, and p75 at $20,000. The 2023 record includes one very large award and several smaller project grants, indicating a mix of anchor support and smaller campaign funding. The foundation is a public charity, does not fund individuals, and does not make program-related investments. Its grantmaking appears to be recurring rather than isolated: multiple awards in 2023 support the same opioid-crisis campaign theme, while its active programs also describe small grants and in-kind safe disposal kit donations. The application mode is explicit for one program, which accepts unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$40K
Total Assets
$0
Total Revenue
$5K
Total Expenses
$441K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $6K and $20K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$6K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$20K
Geographic Reach
National7 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in CO.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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