OVW Fiscal Year 2025 STOP Formula Grant Program | O OVW 2025 172376

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVW 2025 172376

The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 STOP Formula Grant Program is a mandatory federal grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), under CFDA 16.588. It is designed to help communities build and strengthen coordinated, effective responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The program is structured as a formula grant, meaning funds are allocated to states and territories based on statutory or regulatory criteria rather than through a fully open competitive process, with the intent of ensuring broad, consistent support nationwide.

At its core, STOP stands for Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors, which reflects the program's emphasis on improving both victim services and the criminal justice and community systems that respond to these crimes. Funding is meant to support local implementation and capacity-building, including efforts that reach Indian tribal governments and Alaska Native villages as part of broader community response systems. The overall goal is to promote more effective investigations and prosecutions, strengthen victim-centered services, improve training and policies for professionals who handle these cases, and enhance coordination among agencies so survivors receive safer, more consistent support and perpetrators are held accountable.

Eligibility is limited to state-level applicants and certain U.S. territories. Specifically, eligible applicants include any U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. A key restriction is that only the designated state office, as established under 28 C.F.R. 90.11, is permitted to apply on behalf of its jurisdiction. In practice, this means local governments, nonprofits, universities, and most other entities do not apply directly to OVW for this funding stream; instead, they typically pursue STOP-funded subawards administered by their state or territorial STOP administering agency.

This opportunity is listed as a grant funding instrument and falls under the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity category. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2025-172376, and it was created on May 15, 2025. The original application closing date is June 24, 2025. OVW anticipates making 56 awards, which aligns with the number of eligible state and territorial jurisdictions typically receiving STOP formula allocations. The posted award ceiling is $16,188,360, indicating the maximum expected award amount for a single recipient under this announcement, with actual amounts varying by jurisdiction according to the formula and applicable requirements.

Overall, this grant opportunity is best understood as a state-and-territory administered funding stream that supports on-the-ground programs and system improvements addressing violence against women and related crimes, with an emphasis on strengthening coordinated community and criminal justice responses, expanding access to services, and improving the training and practices of key professionals such as law enforcement, prosecutors, and service providers.

• 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 STOP Formula Grant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.588.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-15.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-06-24. (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 $16,188,360.00 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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