Assistance program
Crime Victim Assistance
$12.6 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.575
- What it does
- The Office for Victims of Crime provides an annual grant from the Crime Victims Fund to each State and eligible territory for the financial support of services to crime victims by eligible crime victim assistance programs. The performance measures for this assistance listing are: 1.Number of victims served through the VOCA Victim Assistance program 2.Number of times that services were provided to victims of crime through the Victim Assistance program.
- Who benefits
- Eligible crime victim assistance programs.
- Who applies
- All states, the District of Columbia, the Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to receive an annual VOCA victim assistance formula grant. Eligible agencies that receive VOCA victim assistance formula grant funds must meet the eligibility requirements specified in the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), 34 U.S.C. 20103 (a) and (b)
- Authorized by
- 34 U.S.C. 20103 (a) and (b)
- Program site
- http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/ ↗
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