Grant Witness is tracking SAMHSA Grant Terminations

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January 21, 2026

Introduction

Late in the evening on January 13th, 2026, with no warning or prior notice, the Trump Administration had cancelled $2 billion in funds to 2,700 separate mental health programs in all 50 states.

These programs provided crucial support to a wide range of Americans, from veterans and healthcare workers to grade school students and new mothers. These services included mental health treatment, prevention, education, and public awareness campaigns. Some grants also sustained training programs for first responders. For example:

  • 417 programs aimed to prevent suicide, 465 mentioned alcohol use, and 351 helped Americans living with HIV.
  • Another 218 grants helped Americans with depression, while 9 supported adults living with schizophrenia and their caregivers.
  • 573 grants focused on services in rural areas.
  • Over 300 grants supported law enforcement, who are often called on to help Americans in mental health crises.

According to standardized form letters that Trump officials sent to each mental health organization, these programs were cancelled because the Trump Administration no longer wanted to support them. Trump officials wrote that the programs “no longer effectuate” their “goals or … priorities.”

This boilerplate wording is identical to language that Trump officials used in prior mass grant cancellations at NIH, NSF, and EPA. In many cases, Federal courts have found those cancellations to be unlawful.

The blow back from these cancellations was immediate and overwhelming. Advocates, service providers, state officials, and ultimately members of Congress fought back–and ultimately won, at least for now. Less than 24 hours later, Trump officials backtracked and said they would rescind the terminations and restore these programs.

Grant Witness’s SAMHSA Tracker

Today, we’re launching a new tracker to provide details on every grant that was terminated last week by SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), the agency responsible for these grants. Our tracker includes detailed, searchable information about each grant’s purpose, value, and recipient, including each recipient’s Congressional district.

To create this tracker, we aggregated data from multiple sources, including Federal datasets and, critically, grantee-submitted reports of cancellations and reinstatements. As with other Grant Witness trackers, crowdsourced information has been key to building and verifying this resource. We will continue to update our tracker as we receive new information.

SAMHSA grantees should continue to submit reports of grant terminations or reinstatements using our web form.

While each of last week’s 2,689 cancelled grants has been reinstated, they may remain at risk. Trump officials eliminated all (or nearly all) grants issued under 96 different NOFOs. Targeted NOFOs spanned a spectrum of activities, including state-based initiatives for traumatized youth and their families to Mental Health Centers of Excellence at HBCUs. We plan to publish additional analyses of these patterns in future blog posts to shed light on why these specific grants and NOFOs may have been targeted.

Importantly, January 13th wasn’t the first time Trump officials have cancelled SAMHSA grants. Our tracker includes 242 additional grants worth over $800 million in unspent funds that were terminated mostly on March 24, 2025. Only 108 of these were subsequently reinstated. Most of these were grants to state governments, including block grants, which the Trump Administration paradoxically claims to prefer. We include these grants in our tracker as well.

For the grants that received termination letters on January 13th, 2026, the following trends can be determined:

Type of Recipient Organization

When looking at which recipient organizations that had been impacted the most by the terminations on January 13th, we see that the majority were from Special Interest Organizations, Health Organizations, and Social Services Organizations.

Type of Recipient Organization that received the most termination letters on January 13th
Recipient Organization Terminated Grants Grants Value
Other Special Interest Organization 463 $208,198,531
Other Health Organization 335 $246,168,811
Other Social Services Organization 237 $159,479,729
Junior College, College & University 190 $103,194,411
Health Department 174 $231,311,832
Hospital 166 $102,797,205
Community Action Organization 136 $69,353,431
Welfare Department 86 $92,572,601
Indian Tribal Council 84 $78,363,186
Other Educational Organization 42 $40,508,241
Law Enforcement Agency ( Including Criminal Rehabilitation ) 37 $21,297,919
Research Institution, Foundation and Laboratory 37 $22,292,222
School Board & School District 37 $41,424,073
Educational Department 34 $69,411,406
Rehabilitation Organization ( Other Than Criminal ) 29 $23,992,690
Planning & Administrative Organizations 17 $16,700,227
Supplier Organizations ( Service, Supplies, Material and Equipment ) 15 $8,723,698
Vocational & Training School 10 $6,824,523
Intermediary Organization ( Insurance, Etc. ) 4 $2,982,688
Library & Museum 2 $645,843
Nursing Home OR Other Domiciliary Care Facility 2 $1,862,386
Environmental Organization 1 $101,177

Titles of SAMHSA Grants

Looking at the titles of the SAMHSA grants sent termination letters on January 13th demonstrate that much of the impacted work was related to Mental Health Awareness and Medication-Assisted Treatment (specifically, Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction).

We’ve also provided below a word cloud of the most frequent words used in project titles for grants terminated on January 13th, demonstrating the full range of targeted topics. It’s important to note that some grants have their own titles, and some are titled by the name of their program. We plan to publish additional analyses of these patterns in future blog posts, comparing which SAMHSA programs have been targeted versus the specific SAMHSA grants.

Top 10 Grant Title Terminations
Grant Title Terminated Grants Grants Value
Mental Health Awareness Training Grants 394 $79,415,567
Medication-Assisted Treatment – Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction 172 $134,189,118
Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act Grants 80 $5,047,207
Strategic Prevention Framework-Partnerships for Success for Communities, Local Governments, Universities, Colleges, and Tribes/Tribal Organizations 69 $33,367,911
FY 2023 Grants to Expand Substance Use Disorder Treatment Capacity in Adult and Family Treatment Drug Courts 68 $42,098,202
Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances 62 $152,875,127
FY 2023 Rural Emergency Medical Services Training 61 $11,163,921
Grants to Expand Substance Use Disorder Treatment Capacity in Adult and Family Treatment Drug Courts 61 $34,916,913
Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals 59 $42,739,774
FY 2022 Minority AIDS Initiative: Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High Risk for HIV/AIDS 58 $37,375,452

World cloud of the most common words in the project titles of SAMHSA grants sent termination letters on January 13th, with size proportional to word frequency.