The Comer Family Foundation offers grants to support syringe services programs and community-based harm reduction programs that improve the health and wellness of people who use drugs.
Donor Name: Comer Family Foundation
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
These programs provide free safer use supplies, education, and community wraparound services to reduce opioid overdoses and the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis.
Funding Priorities
- Organizations led by people who use drugs
- Organizations led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color and/or others disproportionately impacted by the criminalization of drug use, HIV, HCV, and overdose (Including those with a history of incarceration, sex work, immigration, etc.)
- Organizations in geographic areas in which limited funding is available for safer use supplies
- Organizations serving areas in which limited to no other programs exist within 100 miles
- Organizations serving areas in which policy improvements can have local, state, and/or national impact
- Organizations serving areas with higher HIV and HCV prevalence, injection drug use prevalence, overdose incidence
- Statewide strategic partnerships
- Organizations offering innovative services at a regional or national level.
Funding Information
- General operating funds including harm reduction supplies
- Length of Funding: Single-year gifts
- Amount of funding: Average single-year gifts range from $2,500 to $20,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The Comer Family Foundation will make grants to organizations that are exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that are not classified as private foundations under section 509(a) of the code. Foundation welcome applications from tribal governments and organizations that require a fiscal sponsor.
- Organizations with total organizational budgets less than $600,000
- Organizations grounded in harm reduction principle and practice providing access to safer use supplies (SUP) through syringe services and community-based harm reduction (SSPs)
- Syringe services and community-based harm reduction programs must be in operation for one full year.
For more information, visit Comer Family Foundation.
