Assistance program
Sexual Assault Services Formula Program
$294.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office on Violence Against Women, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.017
- What it does
- To increase intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance for adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault; family and household members of such victims; and those collaterally affected by the victimization, except for the perpetrator of such victimization.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries are rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations or tribal programs and activities.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are States and territories.
- Authorized by
- Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, Title II, Section 202, Public Law 109-162, 434 U.S.C. 12511(b).
- Program site
- https://www.justice.gov/ovw ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments