Assistance program
Legal Services for Veterans Grants
$74.4 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- Veterans Affairs, Department of, Veterans Affairs, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 64.056
- What it does
- To provide legal services grants to public and non-profit private entities who will provide legal services to Veterans experiencing homelessness or Veterans at-risk for homelessness.
- Who benefits
- A person who served in the active military, naval, air, or space service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable (as defined in 38 U.S.Code Section 101(2) and 38 CFR 79.5). Is homeless (as defined in the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act and 38 CFR 79.15(a), or; Are at-risk for homelessness (as defined in 38 CFR Part 79.15(b)).
- Who applies
- Eligible entity must be a public or nonprofit private entity with the capacity to effectively administer a legal services grant. A public entity includes local government, state government, federally recognized Indian tribal government. A nonprofit private entity is an entity that meets the requirements of 26 U.S.S. 501 (c)(3)(6) or (19).
- Program site
- https://www.va.gov/homeless/lsv/ ↗
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