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Manage Your Grant

NOTE: Specific questions about a grant should be directed to your grant program specialist or you can email OVW's Grants Financial Management Division. Program-specific contact information can be found under the grant program accordions below. 
 
Faith-based organizations with questions about the requirements of their award may consult the Frequently Asked Questions on DOJ’s regulation governing partnerships with faith-based and other neighborhood organizations. Entities receiving an OVW award that prefer co-religionists for employees in programs funded under the award must submit a signed Certification Regarding Hiring Practices on the Basis of Religion promptly after acceptance of an award.
 

General Resources and Information

The Justice Grants System (JustGrants) is available for all award management activities. DOJ award recipients can log in to JustGrants or visit the informational website for further resources and support. Additionally, Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP) is available for enrolled DOJ award recipients to request funds. For more information on how to request funds in ASAP, please reference this user guide.

In addition to being governed by federal grant regulations, as a condition of all awards, OVW grantees are required to comply with the financial and administrative requirements contained in the DOJ financial guide. The current version of the guide was issued in October 2024 and revised in September 2025 by adding text to section 3.13. Download the guide (PDF)

Quarterly financial reports must be submitted no later than 30 days after the end of the quarter. The Federal Financial Report - SF 425 lists the actual expenditures for the prior reporting period as well as the cumulative expenditures for the award.

Links to DOJ financial guides from FY 2020-2025 can be found under the Closed NOFOs section on the Funding Opportunities webpage. For DOJ financial guides prior to FY 2020, please visit OVW's archive. 

Grant Award Modification Resource Sheet

Most recipients submit performance reports twice per year to provide information about activities they undertook with their grant funds, progress made toward project goals, and challenges they faced. Information about OVW performance reporting is at www.vawamei.org.  

To strengthen federal grant management, OMB issued Uniform Guidance on Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance). Originally issued in 2014, this guidance was revised significantly in 2020 and 2024. All OVW award recipients should be familiar with this guidance. 

In 2015, OVW hosted a two-part webinar training to explain the new OMB Uniform Guidance. The training covered background, effective dates, notable changes, cost principles, and audit requirements. Each part of the training takes approximately one hour.

If you have questions regarding the Uniform Guidance, contact OVW’s Grants Financial Management Division by phone at 888-514-8556 or by email.

Grant management webinars on a range of topics are available at OVW's TA Provider Resource Center. You can also visit our training and technical assistance page.

Resource for Requesting to Attend OVW or Non-OVW Training – OVW award recipients can use this resource to request to use OVW grant funds to go to a non-OVW-sponsored training or a training that OVW sponsors for recipients under a different grant program.

Discretionary Grant Program Resources and Information

The Demonstration Program on Trauma-Informed, Victim-Centered Training for Law Enforcement on Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (Abby Honold) Program funds demonstration sites to train on evidence-based or promising investigative policies and practices for the four VAWA crimes of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Grant Management Resources:

Abby Honold Program contacts:

The Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life (Abuse in Later Life) Program funds training to criminal justice professionals to enhance their ability to address abuse in later life; provides cross-training opportunities to professionals working with older victims; establishes or supports a coordinated community response to abuse in later life; and provides or enhances services for victims who are 50 or older.

Eligible applicants to the Abuse in Later Life Program are: states, units of local government, Tribal governments or Tribal organizations, population specific organizations, victim service providers, and state, Tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions.

Abuse Later in Life Program contacts:

The Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program (Campus Program) provides funding for institutions of higher education to develop and strengthen effective security and investigation strategies to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus; develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving such crimes on campus; and develop and strengthen prevention, education, and awareness programs.

Eligible applicants to the Campus Program are: institutions of higher education in the United States and U.S. territories.

Grant Management Resources:

 

Campus Program contacts:

The Consolidated Youth Program provides opportunities for communities to enhance prevention, intervention, and response efforts addressing children, youth, and young adults impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and sex trafficking; and to engage men and youth in prevention work.

Eligible applicants to the Consolidated Youth Program are: states, units of local government, courts (including juvenile courts), Indian Tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, legal services providers, and victim services providers.

Grant Management Resources:

 

Children and Youth Program contacts:

Engaging Men contacts:

The Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) (Campus Set Aside) Initiative uses set aside funding from the OVW Campus Program to support HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs in strengthening their institutional response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The Campus Set Aside Initiative supports activities focused on building the capacity of HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs to develop and implement strategies to prevent and address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking that meets the needs of students, including effective response protocols and prevention programming.

Campus Set Aside Initiative contacts:

The Community-Based Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (Community-Based Services for Survivors) Program supports community-based efforts to address distinctive cultural responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.

Eligible applicants are: community-based organizations whose primary purpose is providing culturally specific services as defined in 34 U.S.C. § 12291(a)(8)-(9) and that have demonstrated experience providing victim services or partner with an organization that has such expertise.

Community-Based Services for Survivors Program contacts:

The Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes Against Individuals and National Resource Center on Cybercrimes Against Individuals Program (together, Cybercrimes Program) supports grants for, and a resource center on, the prevention, enforcement, and prosecution of cybercrimes against individuals.

Eligible applicants for the Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes Against Individuals are: states, Indian Tribes, and units of local government. Eligible applicants for the National Cybercrimes Resource Center are: nonprofit private organizations with experience working on issues of cybercrimes against individuals.

Cybercrimes Program contacts:

The Training and Services to End Violence and Abuse Against Individuals with Disabilities and Deaf People Program (Disabilities Program) provides training, consultation, and information on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, sexual assault, and abuse by caregivers against individuals with disabilities and Deaf people and enhances direct services to such individuals.

Eligible applicants for the Disabilities Program are: states, units of local government, Indian Tribal governments or Tribal organizations, and victim service providers, such as state or Tribal domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions or nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations serving individuals with disabilities.

Disabilities Program contacts:

The Electronic Service Protection Order Court Pilot Program (ESPOC) provides grants to state and Tribal courts to develop and implement programs to properly and legally serve protection orders through electronic means.

Eligible applicants for ESPOC are: state courts, territorial courts, or Tribal courts that are part of a multidisciplinary partnership.

ESPOC contacts:

The Financial Assistance Grants for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking (Financial Assistance for Victims) Program provides grants for financial assistance to survivors, including evaluation of the effectiveness of funded projects.

Eligible applicants for the Financial Assistance for Victims Program are: victim service providers, Tribal governments, and Tribal organizations. 

Financial Assistance for Victims Program contacts:

The Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) Program encourages partnerships among state, local, and Tribal governments, courts, victim service providers, coalitions, and rape crisis centers to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking as serious crimes and to seek safety and autonomy for victims.

Eligible applicants for the ICJR Program are: states and territories; units of local government; Indian Tribal governments; state, local, Tribal, and territorial courts; victim service providers; and state and Tribal coalitions that meet certain certification requirements.

ICJR Program contacts:

This program funds pilot projects, demonstration projects, and special initiatives designed to improve responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.

Eligible entities vary depending on the purposes for which these funds are used.

The Justice for Families Program supports projects designed to improve the response of the civil and criminal justice system to families with a history of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking, or in cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse.

Eligible applicants to the Justice for Families Program are: states, units of local government, courts (including juvenile courts), Indian Tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, legal services providers, and victim services providers.

Justice For Families Program contacts:

The Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Program funds comprehensive, direct legal services for adult and youth victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or violence.

Eligible applicants to the LAV Program are: private nonprofit entities, publicly funded organizations not acting in a governmental capacity, territorial organizations, Indian Tribal governments, and Tribal organizations.

In 2025, the LAV Program gave out 51 awards totaling $36,767,280. To view grantees under this program and others for previous fiscal years, please visit OVW's awards webpage.

Legal Assistance for Victims Program contacts:

The LGBT Specific Services Program funds the development, maintenance, and replication of LGBT specific services and resources for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking, including education, prevention, outreach, training for first responders, and programming for non-offending LGBT parents of children exposed to these crimes.

Eligible applicants to the LGBT Specific Services Program are: community-based organizations with the primary purpose of providing LGBT specific services that have demonstrated experience providing victim services or partner with an organization having such expertise.

LGBT Specific Services Program contacts:

The Pilot Program on Restorative Practices supports the development and assessment of restorative practices to prevent or address domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking, as well as related training and technical assistance.

Eligible applicants to the Pilot Program on Restorative Practices are: units of local governments, Tribal governments, Tribal organizations, victim service providers, institutions of higher education, and private or public nonprofit organizations, including Tribal nonprofit organizations and faith-based nonprofit organizations.

Pilot Program on Restorative Practices contacts:

The Research and Evaluation Initiative funds research and evaluation on approaches to preventing and addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.

Eligible applicants to the Research and Evaluation Initiative are: states, units of local government, Tribal governments, Tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education.

Research and Evaluation Initiative contacts:

The Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (Rural) Program supports projects designed to enhance the safety of rural victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking and prevent these crimes in rural areas. This program encourages collaboration among criminal justice agencies, victim service providers, social services agencies, health professionals, and other community organizations.

Eligible applicants to the Rural Program are: states, Indian Tribes, territories, local governments, and nonprofit, public or private entities, including Tribal nonprofit organizations.

Rural Program contacts:

The Sexual Assault Services - Community-Based Services Program supports the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of culturally specific intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault.

Eligible applicants to the Sexual Assault Services - Community-Based Services are: private nonprofit organizations that focus primarily on culturally specific communities as defined in 34 U.S.C. § 12291(a)(8) and have demonstrated experience in sexual assault intervention or partner with an organization having such expertise.

Sexual Assault Services - Community-Based Services Program contacts:

The Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (SAFE) Hiring and Training Program provides grants to establish and expand programs that increase access to post-sexual assault medical forensic care for victims, including related training, technical assistance, research, and information-sharing.

Eligible applicants to the SAFE Hiring and Training Program are: state, Tribal, or local governments or hospitals; sexual assault examination programs; state sexual assault coalitions; and healthcare facilities and community-based programs that provide medical forensic exams for sexual assault victims. 

SAFE Hiring and Training Program contacts:

The Training and Technical Assistance Initiative funds training and technical assistance to current and potential grant recipients and subrecipients to enhance their efforts to successfully implement responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.

Eligible applicants to the Training and Technical Assistance Initiative are: states, units of local government, Tribal governments, Tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education.

Training and Technical Assistance Initiative contacts:

The Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (Transitional Housing) Program supports 6-24 months of transitional housing assistance with voluntary support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing as a result of a situation of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking, and for whom emergency shelter services or other crisis intervention services are unavailable or insufficient.

Eligible applicants to the Transitional Housing Program are: states, units of local government, Indian Tribes, and other organizations, including domestic violence and sexual assault victim service providers, domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions, other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, population-specific organizations, or community-based and culturally specific organizations, that have a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking.

Transitional Housing Program contacts:

The Tribal Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (TSAUSA) Program funds Tribal prosecutors to be cross-designated to bring domestic and sexual violence cases in both Tribal and federal court, through close collaboration between the grantee Tribe and their local U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In 2024, OVW awarded three grants totaling $3.75 million under TSAUSA. To view grantees under this program and others for previous fiscal years, please visit OVW's awards webpage.

TSAUSA contacts:

The Tribal Governments Program provides funding to Tribes to develop and enhance effective governmental strategies to curtail violent crimes against and increase the safety of Indian women consistent with Tribal law and custom, as well as to increase Tribal capacity to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking.

Eligible applicants for the Tribal Governments Program are: federally recognized Tribes, Tribal consortia, or an organization that is acting as the authorized designee of a federally recognized Indian Tribe.

Tribal Governments Program contacts:

The Grants to Tribal Governments to Exercise Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (Tribal Jurisdiction Program) provides grants and technical assistance to Indian Tribes for planning and implementing changes to their criminal justice systems necessary to exercise “special tribal criminal jurisdiction” (STCJ) and for exercising that jurisdiction.

Eligible applicants to the Tribal Jurisdiction Program are: Indian Tribal governments (or consortia of such governments) that have jurisdiction over Indian country or occupy Alaska Native villages.

Tribal Jurisdiction Program contacts:

The Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction Reimbursement Program (Tribal Reimbursement Program) reimburses Tribal governments for expenses incurred in exercising Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction (STCJ) over non-Indians who commit certain covered crimes. The Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization of 2022 defines STCJ covered crimes as: assault of Tribal justice personnel; child violence; dating violence; domestic violence; obstruction of justice; sexual violence; sex trafficking; stalking; and violation of a protection order.

Eligibility is by invitation only.

Grant Management Resources:

Tribal Jurisdiction Program contacts:

The Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (TSASP) supports projects to create, maintain, and expand sustainable sexual assault services provided by Tribes, Tribal organizations, and nonprofit Tribal organizations within Indian country and Alaska Native villages.

Eligible applicants are: Indian Tribes, Tribal consortia, Tribal organizations, and nonprofit Tribal organizations.

Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program contacts:

The Grants for Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations (Underserved) Program funds population-specific outreach and victim services to adult and youth victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in underserved populations, as well as training for criminal and civil justice personnel on responding to the needs of underserved victims.

Eligible applicants are: population-specific organizations and victim service providers. A “population specific organization” means a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that primarily serves members of a specific underserved population and has demonstrated experience and expertise providing targeted services to members of that specific underserved population.

Underserved Program contacts:

Formula Grant Program Resources and Information

The Grants to Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program (Tribal Coalitions Program) funds the development and operation of nonprofit, nongovernmental Tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions that provide education, support, and technical assistance to member Indian service providers and Tribes to enhance their response to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking. 

Eligible applicants to the Tribal Coalitions Program must meet the statutory definition of a “Tribal coalition.” Tribal coalitions provide education, support, and technical assistance to member Indian service providers and Tribes to enhance their response to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Tribal Coalitions Program contacts:

The Sexual Assault Services Formula Grant Program (SASP) is awarded to states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. It assists them in supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations or tribal programs that provide services, direct intervention, and related assistance to victims of sexual assault and their families. 

SASP is the first federal funding stream solely dedicated to the provision of direct intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault. Funds provided through SASP are designed to supplement other funding sources directed at addressing sexual assault on the state and territorial level.

Grant Management Resources:

SASP contacts:

The State and Territorial Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Coalitions Program (State Coalitions Program) provides grants to each state, the District of Columbia, and territorial domestic violence coalition and sexual assault coalition for the purposes of coordinating victim services activities and collaborating and coordinating with federal, state, and local entities engaged in addressing violence against women.

State Coalitions Program contacts:

The Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors Violence Against Women Formula Grant (STOP) Program is awarded to states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands to enhance the capacity of local communities to develop and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat violent crimes against women and to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women. 

Each state, territory, and the District of Columbia must allocate 25 percent for law enforcement, 25 percent for prosecutors, 30 percent for victim services (of which at least 10 percent must be distributed to culturally specific community-based organizations), and 5 percent to state and local courts. The recipient may allocate the remaining 15 percent at its discretion. 

Grant Management Resources:

STOP FAQs:

STOP Formula Program contacts:

Updated March 19, 2026