OVC FY 2026 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Compensation Formula Grant
Formula grant funding for eligible state victim compensation programs to reimburse crime victims for costs such as medical fees, lost income, dependent care, funeral expenses, and relocation expenses.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV
⚑ Victim compensation formula grant; funds compensation/services to crime victims rather than research. · Eligibility is not fully stated in the notice excerpt, but this program is for eligible victim compensation programs, typically state-administered entities. · Award ceiling listed as $0 in the provided data; likely a formula allocation rather than a competitive project cap.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OVC FY 2026 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Compensation Formula Grant. Eligible victim compensation programs can use these funds to provide crime victims with compensation, support, and services to aid their restoration after criminal violence, including costs associated with medical fees, lost income, dependent care, funeral expenses, and relocation expenses.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Office for Victims of Crime <ojp.responsecenter@usdoj.gov>
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Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
18/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a victim compensation and services program, not a research opportunity, and it primarily supports operational assistance to crime victims rather than hypothesis-driven study or evaluation. There is some topical overlap with public health/crisis response and national security in the broad sense of trauma and violence response, but public universities are not clearly positioned as direct applicants for this formula grant, so the fit is very limited.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a victim compensation and services program, not a research opportunity, and it primarily supports operational assistance to crime victims rather than hypothesis-driven study or evaluation. There is some topical overlap with public health/crisis response and national security in the broad sense of trauma and violence response, but public universities are not clearly positioned as direct applicants for this formula grant, so the fit is very limited. |
| 2026-07-06 | 15 | gpt-5.4-mini | This opportunity is for state victim compensation programs to reimburse crime victims for direct expenses after criminal violence. It has no meaningful connection to IPPRA’s core portfolio areas, methods, or social-science research mission, and it appears to be a programmatic grant rather than a research award. Eligibility is also not stated here, so there is no clear route for a public university like OU to apply as a research lead or named partner. |