OVC FY 25 Technology to Support Services for Victims of Crime | O OVC 2025 172430

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The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is offering the FY 25 "Technology to Support Services for Victims of Crime" discretionary grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number: O-OVC-2025-172430) to help victim-serving entities use technology in practical, service-improving ways. The program is structured as a cooperative agreement, which generally means OVC expects to have an active role in the project beyond simply issuing funds, such as providing guidance, monitoring progress, and collaborating on implementation to ensure the project meets program goals. The funding falls under the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity area and is tied to CFDA 16.582. The application deadline listed is August 15, 2025, and the maximum award amount is $600,000 per award (award ceiling: $600,000). The NOFO was created July 22, 2025.

This NOFO is divided into two distinct funding categories, and applicants must choose only one category to apply under. Category 1, "Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime," is aimed at victim service organizations and focuses on innovative strategies to create, expand, or enhance technology use that directly improves how organizations interact with victims. The emphasis is on making services more accessible, responsive, and higher quality. In practice, this category is about adopting or improving tools and systems that strengthen communication, streamline service delivery, and reduce barriers victims face when trying to get help. The underlying goal is to modernize and improve the victim experience by using technology thoughtfully, not just purchasing software for its own sake.

Category 2, "Building State Technology Capacity to Serve Victims of Crime," is specifically designed for State Administering Agencies and is oriented toward statewide technology programs. The intent here is broader infrastructure and capacity building: improving statewide access to services, fostering innovation and efficiency across victim service systems, and raising service quality at scale. For the purposes of this NOFO, "state" is defined expansively to include all U.S. states as well as the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. This category is essentially about building or strengthening statewide technology ecosystems that enable consistent, efficient, and innovative service delivery across many providers and communities.

The eligible applicant pool is wide overall, reflecting OVC's interest in reaching both governmental and nongovernmental service systems. Eligible applicants include state governments; county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other Native American tribal organizations; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education); nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education); and "others." The NOFO also clarifies that "other units of local government" includes towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, and other general-purpose political subdivisions of a state, which helps smaller local entities understand they may qualify.

Overall, the opportunity is meant to strengthen victim services through technology in two complementary ways: (1) supporting organizations that want to improve direct victim-facing services using technology, and (2) supporting statewide agencies that want to build broader technology capacity and coordinated systems that can improve access, efficiency, and quality across an entire state or territory. Applicants should pay close attention to which category best matches their role and authority, since only one category application is allowed and Category 2 is reserved for State Administering Agencies operating at the statewide level.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY 25 Technology to Support Services for Victims of Crime" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.582.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-22.
• 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 $600,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, 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, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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