OVW Fiscal Year 2024 STOP Formula Grant Program | O OVW 2024 172038

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVW 2024 172038

The OVW Fiscal Year 2024 STOP Formula Grant Program (Assistance Listing/CFDA 16.588) is a mandatory federal grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). It is authorized under 34 U.S.C. 10441 and related sections (including 10446 through 10451, and 10454). The program is designed to help jurisdictions build and strengthen coordinated, effective responses to four major categories of gender-based violence: domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. In practical terms, the funding is meant to support community and system-level efforts that improve how survivors are protected and served, and how offenders are held accountable, with an emphasis on coordinated work across agencies and disciplines.

This is a formula grant program, meaning funds are allocated based on statutory or regulatory formulas rather than a purely competitive scoring process. The program supports communities broadly, and explicitly includes American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages as part of the communities whose responses can be strengthened through the use of STOP funds. The overall goal is to improve the capacity of the criminal justice system and victim services to respond in a more informed, effective, and victim-centered way, including through training, development of protocols, and collaborative initiatives that link law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, and victim service providers.

Eligibility to apply is narrowly limited. Only U.S. states and certain U.S. territories may receive awards, specifically: any state of the United States, 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. Importantly, even within those eligible jurisdictions, the application can only be submitted by the designated state administering office, as provided in 28 C.F.R. 90.11. In other words, local governments, nonprofits, and other organizations generally do not apply directly to OVW under this opportunity; instead, they typically participate as subrecipients or partners through their state or territorial STOP administering agency.

For FY 2024, the funding opportunity is listed as "OVW Fiscal Year 2024 STOP Formula Grant Program" with Funding Opportunity Number "O-OVW-2024-172038." The instrument type is a grant, and the funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services. The opportunity was created on May 8, 2024, and the original closing date for submissions was June 18, 2024. OVW anticipated making 56 awards under this program. The notice also lists an award ceiling of $16,562,077, indicating the maximum award amount referenced in the posting (commonly tied to the largest eligible state/territory allocation under the formula).

Overall, this opportunity represents a major federal funding stream that states and territories use to support statewide strategies and local implementation efforts to address violence against women and related crimes. While OVW makes the awards to designated state offices, the impact is intended to reach communities on the ground through a combination of training, improved justice system practices, enhanced victim services, and coordinated approaches that better address survivor safety and offender accountability.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2024 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 2024-05-08.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-18. (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 $16,562,077.00 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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