Behavioral health services and evaluation grants
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Service delivery, workforce and infrastructure money rather than investigator-led science — but most awards carry an evaluation requirement, which is a durable route into funded applied research.
- Indicative award
- $100k–$5M (total award)Service grants are often large and multi-year, with tightly prescribed budget categories.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Notices of Funding Opportunity post through the year, often with short windows.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Frequently limited to community organisations, tribes, states and providers — universities usually join as the evaluation partner rather than the lead applicant.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- services · workforce · evaluation requirement · prevention · treatment
- Apply at
- https://www.samhsa.gov/grants
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
Also on the Mental Health shelf
- Research grantsAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention$30k–$200k · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov
- Grants for veterans, service members and their familiesBob Woodruff Foundation$25k–$500k · Annual cycle
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research ProgramsU.S. Department of DefenseAmount not published · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jun, Jul
- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Minority Fellowship ProgramCouncil on Social Work EducationAmount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov