OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Sexual Assault Services Formula Program | O OVW 2025 172377

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVW 2025 172377

The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Sexual Assault Services Formula Program (SAS Formula Program) is a mandatory federal grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Its purpose is to provide formula-based funding to states and U.S. territories so they can strengthen and sustain sexual assault services in their jurisdictions. The program is specifically oriented toward supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, as well as tribal programs, that deliver direct intervention and related assistance to victims of sexual assault. A key point in the program description is that services supported with these funds must be available to victims regardless of age, reinforcing that the program is intended to cover the full spectrum of survivor needs across the lifespan.

This is a formula program, meaning funds are allocated to eligible states and territories based on a prescribed methodology rather than purely competitive scoring. The primary role of the state or territorial administering entity is to receive the federal award and then direct resources to on-the-ground service providers that are doing direct victim assistance work. While the funds ultimately support community-based and tribal service programs, the only entities allowed to submit an application to OVW are the designated state offices for each eligible jurisdiction. In practice, that means individual nonprofits, rape crisis centers, and most other organizations do not apply directly to OVW under this opportunity; instead, they typically access funding through their state or territorial SAS administrator once the award is made.

Eligible applicants include any U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The opportunity is categorized under Law, Justice and Legal Services and is issued as a grant (Funding Instrument Type: Grant). The relevant CFDA/Assistance Listing number is 16.017, which is commonly used to track federal assistance for this program area across reporting and compliance systems.

For this FY 2025 opportunity, the funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2025-172377. The solicitation was created on 2025-05-06, and the original closing date is 2025-06-10. OVW expects to make approximately 56 awards, aligning with the number of eligible state and territorial jurisdictions. The listed award ceiling is $2,065,486, which indicates the maximum anticipated award amount for a single recipient under this announcement (actual award amounts can vary by jurisdiction under the formula and final appropriations).

Overall, this grant opportunity is designed to ensure that every state and territory has dedicated federal support to maintain and expand core sexual assault victim services, with a particular emphasis on funding the organizations that provide immediate, survivor-centered intervention and ongoing assistance. The administrative gatekeeping is intentional: only the designated state office may apply, and those offices then serve as the conduit for getting resources to local rape crisis centers, nonprofit service providers, and tribal programs delivering direct support to survivors.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Sexual Assault Services Formula Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.017.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-06.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-06-10. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,065,486.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 56 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, Others.

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