Opioid Settlement Tracker

What Opioid Settlement Tracker does

Opioid Settlement Tracker (OpioidSettlementTracker.com LLC) is an independently maintained pro-bono public interest project that publishes data tools tracking how U.S. state and local governments decide, report, and spend opioid settlement funds. Founded in 2019 by attorney Christine Minhee, J.D. — a Soros Justice Fellow, UW School of Law Dean's Medalist, and National Advisory Committee member for the UCSF-Johns Hopkins Opioid Industry Documents Archive — the project maintains three core products: The Everything Table (a consolidated national and state-by-state dashboard combining settlement totals, decision-maker classifications, expenditure reporting, advisory councils, and grant availability across all 50 states plus D.C.), the Global Settlement Tracker (the only public resource tallying state-by-state values of major opioid settlements, currently tracking $58.58 billion), and the Community Grant Tracker (showing 33 live settlement-funded grant opportunities). All data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, prohibiting commercial reuse.

The platform runs on a deliberately low-tech stack: Squarespace 7.1 for the front end, Google Sheets for backend data management, custom HTML/CSS/JavaScript embedded directly into pages, and interactive visualizations "vibe-coded" with Anthropic's Claude AI. Distribution is entirely self-serve through the public website, with awareness driven by earned media (AP, NYT, Washington Post, NPR, Reuters, Freakonomics Radio, Last Week Tonight, CBS) and direct government partner referrals (CDC, SAMHSA, HRSA, NACCHO, NACo, state health departments). The taxonomy used in The Everything Table is co-developed and amplified through strategic partnerships with Vital Strategies (OpioidSettlementGuides.com, 2024), KFF Health News (2023-2024 expenditure reporting analyses), and the Legal Action Center (2024 Community Grant Portals).

The entity generates no revenue. It was seeded by Christine Minhee's 2019 Open Society Foundations Soros Justice Fellowship and is sustained by her separate consulting work with public and private sector decision-makers on opioid settlement restrictions and procurement. The LLC is registered in Washington State, where Christine is licensed to practice law; headcount is effectively a solo operator. Recent activity includes a full website relaunch on May 20, 2026 consolidating legacy datasets into The Everything Table.

Name

Opioid Settlement Tracker

Legal name

OpioidSettlementTracker.com LLC

Website

https://opioidsettlementtracker.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Opioid Settlement Tracker is an independently maintained pro-bono public interest project that publishes data tools tracking how U.S. state and local governments decide, report, and spend nearly $60 billion in opioid settlement funds. It serves federal and state agencies, journalists, advocates, and community organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Pro-bono public interest project: The Opioid Settlement Tracker is a pro-bono public interest project independently maintained. No revenue generation. Funded through Open Society Foundations Soros Justice Fellowship (2019) and Christine's consulting work.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Opioid Settlement Tracker is a pro-bono public interest data project that publishes three interconnected tools—The Everything Table (consolidated national and state-by-state dashboard of how opioid settlement dollars are decided, reported, and spent), the Global Settlement Tracker (state-by-state tally of opioid settlement values with pharmaceutical companies), and the Community Grant Tracker (live map and table of opioid settlement-funded grant opportunities). All data is freely accessible under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, with no commercial offering.

Product overview

Opioid Settlement Tracker is a pro-bono public interest project offering three interconnected data products focused on U.S. opioid settlement transparency. The core offering consists of: (1) The Everything Table, a comprehensive national dashboard combining settlement totals, decision-maker classifications, expenditure reporting, grant availability, and advisory council data across all 50 states plus D.C.; (2) the Global Settlement Tracker, which tallies and visualizes the reported values of major opioid settlements with pharmaceutical companies; and (3) the Community Grant Tracker, which monitors grantmaking infrastructure and live funding opportunities. The platform is designed for government agencies, advocates, journalists, and researchers seeking transparency in how nearly $60 billion in opioid settlement funds are being managed.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Everything Table: A national and state-by-state view of how settlement dollars are decided, reported, and spent by U.S. state and local governments.
• Global Settlement Tracker
• Community Grant Tracker

Products and services

• The Everything Table A comprehensive national and state-by-state dashboard consolidating data on how opioid settlement dollars are decided, reported, and spent by U.S. state and local governments. Combines datasets on settlement totals, decision-makers, expenditure reporting, grant availability, and advisory councils into an interactive, filterable table with donut chart visualizations. For government agencies, advocates, journalists, and researchers.
• Global Settlement Tracker The original and only public resource tracking state-by-state totals of major opioid settlement values. Features a pie chart visualization of each settlement's reported value and a detailed table breaking down settlements by company, reported value, state/local share, tribal share, and finalization status. Tracked nearly $60 billion in opioid settlements since 2019.
• Community Grant Tracker A tool tracking how states publish opioid settlement-funded grant opportunities and displaying currently live funding opportunities. Features a donut chart visualization showing grantmaking infrastructure categories across states, an interactive U.S. map with color-coded pins for grant deadlines, and a sortable table of 33+ live opportunities. For community organizations and nonprofits seeking opioid settlement-funded grants.

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly $60 billion in opioid settlements tracked across 51 jurisdictions
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Vital StrategiescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Co-produced OpioidSettlementGuides.com in 2024 - the encyclopedia of U.S. states' opioid settlement spending processes. This resource provides the decision-maker and advisory council classifications used in The Everything Table. Expanded upon 2023 Guides for Community Advocates.
• Legal Action CentercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Launched the 2024 'Opioid Settlement Community Grant Portals' resource tracking grantmaking opportunities. The Community Grant Tracker now updates and replaces this original resource.
• KFF Health NewscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Conducted 2023 and 2024 public-reporting analyses with senior correspondent Aneri Pattani assessing states' written promises to publicly report expenditures. This work seeded the Everything Table's Expenditure Reporting column.
• University of Washington School of LawminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChristine Minhee was a Visiting Scholar at UW School of Law where she graduated as the Dean's Medalist. She co-authored 'The Cure for America's Opioid Crisis?' published in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
• UCSF-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Opioid Industry Documents ArchiveminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChristine Minhee serves as a National Advisory Committee member for the Opioid Industry Documents Archive.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• InfluenceMap: Independent research organization tracking corporate influence on climate and public policy. Comparable as a public-interest data tracker that publishes interactive tools for transparency and advocacy.
• MuckRock: Nonprofit focused on public records and FOIA request infrastructure, providing tools for journalists and researchers to access government data. Comparable as a transparency infrastructure provider, though focused on document access rather than aggregated datasets.

Others

• DocumentCloud: Open-source platform for document storage, annotation, and search used by investigative journalists. Adjacent as transparency-enabling infrastructure that supports public-interest data work, though focused on documents rather than aggregated settlement datasets.
• National Association of Counties (NACo): Membership organization representing U.S. county governments that engages with OST on opioid-settlement implementation. Adjacent as a downstream user/promoter rather than direct competitor, but relevant given OST's distribution through government partners.

Direct peers

• OpenTheBooks: Government spending transparency organization that compiles and visualizes public spending data at federal, state, and local levels. Closely comparable in mission and product approach — turning public records into searchable, state-by-state transparency tools.
• Good Jobs First: Nonprofit that tracks and publishes data on economic development subsidies, grants, and corporate accountability across U.S. states. Directly comparable as a public-interest data transparency project focused on government spending decisions.

Broad incumbents

• USAspending.gov: Official U.S. government source for federal spending data. Comparable as a transparency platform for public funds, though it covers federal spending broadly rather than the narrower opioid-settlement vertical.
• Vital Strategies: Global public health organization working on data-driven health policy and grantmaking infrastructure. An active OST partner (co-producer of OpioidSettlementGuides.com) and comparable in public-health data publishing.
• ProPublica: Major nonprofit investigative newsroom known for data-driven public-interest journalism on government and corporate accountability. Operates at much larger scale but shares the public-interest data transparency mission.
• KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation): Independent health policy research organization with extensive public data tools. An active OST partner (via KFF Health News) and comparable in publishing free, public-interest health and policy data resources.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/opioidsettlementtracker

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Profiles1 record

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