Grant Witness is tracking SAMHSA Grant Terminations
Grant Witness Team · 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:
Congressional District and State-Level Trends
The following map provides a breakdown of grants sent termination letters on January 13th, 2026 by congressional district. From this analysis, we see that programs in congressional districts OK-02, AK-00, and GA-05 were impacted the most when the termination letters were sent out.
Zooming out at a state level, we see that the states which had the most termination letters sent to included California, New York, Texas, Florida and Illinois.
| Congressional District | Terminated Grants | Grants Value |
|---|---|---|
| OK-02 | 31 | $20.64M |
| AK-00 | 29 | $29.1M |
| GA-05 | 25 | $19.34M |
| PR-98 | 24 | $17.72M |
| AZ-07 | 22 | $14.36M |
| NY-10 | 21 | $14.91M |
| CA-11 | 20 | $12.03M |
| IL-07 | 20 | $11.66M |
| CA-12 | 19 | $12.36M |
| MO-01 | 19 | $7.85M |
Top 10 Congressional Districts that were sent SAMHSA terminations on Jan 13th, 2026
| State Abbrev | State Name | Terminated Grants | Grants Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA | California | 175 | $108,460,945 |
| NY | New York | 165 | $102,850,074 |
| TX | Texas | 125 | $100,598,290 |
| FL | Florida | 106 | $68,726,828 |
| IL | Illinois | 80 | $46,856,240 |
| MI | Michigan | 70 | $41,878,464 |
| MA | Massachusetts | 68 | $34,097,241 |
| OK | Oklahoma | 68 | $54,189,698 |
| OH | Ohio | 65 | $50,098,609 |
| MO | Missouri | 64 | $29,190,780 |
Top 10 States with SAMHSA grants sent termination letters on Jan 13th, 2026
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.
| 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 |
Type of Recipient Organization that received the most termination letters on January 13th
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.
| 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 |
Top 10 Grant Title Terminations
