Assistance program
Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus
$115.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office on Violence Against Women, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.525
- What it does
- To develop and strengthen effective security and investigation strategies to combat sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campuses, and to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving such crimes against women on campuses, which may include partnerships with local criminal justice authorities and community-based victim services agencies, and to develop and strengthen prevention education and awareness programs.
- Who benefits
- Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education.
- Who applies
- Institutions of higher education as defined under the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 that are in compliance with the campus crime reporting requirements set forth in 20 U.S.C. 1092 (f), as amended. A consortia of institutions of higher education may also apply for these grants provided that each individual consortium member is also eligible to apply.
- Authorized by
- The Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, Title III, Section 304, Public Law 109-162, 42 U.S.C. §14045b, as amended; the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, Public Law 113-4.
- 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