Partnership To End Addiction

Partnership To End Addiction, a New York-based nonprofit formed through the merger of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, operates as a federal grant recipient and occasional small-purchase contractor delivering substance use disorder prevention, treatment support, and family-centered intervention research to public health and research agencies. The organization competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations; 92% of recent awards are prime grants or contracts, and 8% are sub-recipient work under state-administered grant programs.

Partnership To End Addiction's core federal footprint is research and family support services. The National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism anchor the work—NIDA accounts for 10 of the 26 health research awards shown in the portfolio, and NIAAA for 4. Recent prime grant examples include a $453,750 R61/R33 Project Grant from NIDA (awarded March 15, 2026, completing February 29, 2028) to develop and evaluate HALO, an AI-powered chatbot delivering evidence-based support to concerned significant others of individuals with substance use disorder, integrated with Partnership's existing helpline platform serving over 23,000 families annually; a $493,664 R34 Project Grant from NIDA (awarded June 15, 2024, completing May 31, 2027) for digital screening and brief intervention for perinatal substance use in home visiting; and a parallel R34 from NIDA (awarded April 15, 2024, completing March 31, 2027) developing family-based adjunctive treatment for co-occurring internalizing disorders in adolescents with substance use problems. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded a separate Project Grant (September 30, 2023, completing September 29, 2025) for telehealth, mobile behavioral health outreach, and community-needs assessment targeting Black families in New York State. On the contracting side, the Drug Enforcement Administration placed three small purchase orders totaling $20.1 thousand for Operation Engage partnership initiatives and community outreach services (most recent May 4, 2026, completing April 30, 2027).

Federal funding concentration is split between research volume and contracting dollars. The NIH (NIDA and NIAAA combined) and NIDA alone comprise approximately 50% of the top-customer-by-count ranking, while DEA dominates potential-value share among visible contract awards at $743 thousand. Grant dollars substantially exceed contract dollars—the source reports $54.4 million in obligated dollars against $3.2 million in combined potential value across all awards, a 1724% ratio indicating mature, multi-year grant funding cycles. Sub-recipient positioning includes work under the Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene on New York State OASAS overdose prevention and outreach programs (multiple awards January 2024 through January 2026) and a subrecipient site role under the University of Connecticut Health Center on a mobile technology intervention pilot study for emergency departments (awarded July 6, 2024). Recent activity is sparse—four awards in 2026 against a five-year average of 2.4 per year—with seven awards reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months carrying combined potential value of $12 thousand. Partnership's capability portfolio centers on evidence-based digital health interventions, helpline delivery of behavioral health support and brief interventions, implementation research for substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, and family engagement and support for prevention and recovery across diverse populations including perinatal, adolescent, and Black communities.