Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2025 172429
The OVC FY25 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Compensation Formula Grant is a mandatory federal formula grant run by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), designed to help states provide direct financial assistance to eligible victims of crime. The central purpose of the program is to support state victim compensation programs that reimburse victims for certain crime-related costs, helping cover expenses that can arise after victimization and that might otherwise be overwhelming. By routing funding through state programs, this grant helps ensure victims can access compensation through established state systems that determine eligibility, process claims, and issue payments.
Funding under this opportunity must be used by states to make compensation benefit awards to eligible crime victims for costs resulting from crime, with an explicit exclusion for property damage payments when calculating the base award amount. In other words, the grant is focused on supporting compensation tied to victim impacts rather than replacing or repairing damaged property. The program is structured to provide broad, ongoing support to states so they can continue paying claims and maintaining compensation capacity for large numbers of victims each year.
The award amount is determined by a formula rather than a competitive scoring process. Under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), each eligible state victim compensation program receives an annual grant equal to 75 percent of the amount the program paid out in state-funded victim compensation payments during the fiscal year that is two years prior to the current fiscal year, excluding amounts awarded for property damage. This approach links federal funding to a state program's demonstrated compensation activity, and it uses a two-year lookback period to base calculations on completed payment data.
Eligible applicants are state governments, reflecting that VOCA victim compensation programs are administered at the state level. The funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, and the associated CFDA (now commonly referenced as Assistance Listing) number is 16.576. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the opportunity category is listed as mandatory, indicating that awards are made according to the statutory/formula framework rather than a discretionary competition.
Key administrative details include the funding opportunity title, OVC FY25 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Compensation Formula Grant, and funding opportunity number O-OVC-2025-172429. The opportunity was created on 2025-07-21, and the original closing date is 2025-08-15. The listed award ceiling is 178,983,000, representing the maximum amount referenced in the opportunity details (the precise amount a state receives is determined by the formula described above rather than a single uniform award size).Apply for O OVC 2025 172429
- The Office for Victims of Crime in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY25 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Compensation Formula Grant" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.576.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-21.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-08-15. (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 $178,983,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments.
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