OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program | O OVW 2025 172316

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVW 2025 172316

The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), designed to strengthen how the justice system responds to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The program is centered on treating these offenses as serious violations of criminal law while improving outcomes that support victim safety, autonomy, and meaningful access to justice. In practice, this kind of funding is typically used to help communities and justice partners build more coordinated, effective, and victim-centered approaches across law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and related victim services.

The opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number O-OVW-2025-172316 and falls within the Law, Justice and Legal Services category (CFDA 16.590). OVW expects to make about 35 awards, with an award ceiling of up to $1,000,000 per grant. Applications are due by March 4, 2025, and the opportunity was created on January 15, 2025. As a discretionary program, awards are competitive and are generally made based on how well the proposed project aligns with OVW priorities, demonstrates strong partnerships, and shows a clear plan for improving system responses and victim safety.

Eligibility is limited to specific public and nonprofit entities that play a role in criminal justice and victim support. Eligible applicants include states and territories, units of local government (such as counties, cities, and townships), federally recognized Tribal governments and certain Tribal organizations, courts, and nonprofit organizations including 501(c)(3) victim service providers as well as faith-based and community organizations. The program is meant to encourage collaboration among these groups, so applicants often propose projects that formalize coordinated community responses, improve investigative and prosecutorial practices, enhance court procedures and protections, expand victim advocacy and services that interface with the justice system, and address gaps that prevent survivors from engaging safely and effectively with law enforcement and the courts.

Overall, the ICJR Program is aimed at helping jurisdictions move beyond fragmented responses by improving policies, practices, and coordination so that cases are handled more consistently, survivor needs and safety risks are addressed more effectively, and justice-system decision-making better reflects the seriousness and complexity of these crimes.

• 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 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.590.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-15.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-03-04. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 35 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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