OVC FY 2026 Victim of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Assistance Formula Grant
Annual formula grants to states and most territories to fund subgrants for direct services to crime victims, including counseling, advocacy, shelter, therapy, and related support services.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV
⚑ Formula grant to states and most territories; funds flow through state/territorial administering agencies as subgrants rather than direct awards to universities. · Primarily supports victim services delivery, not research or evaluation. · No cost share or matching requirement stated in the notice excerpt.
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 Assistance Formula Grant. This opportunity provides an annual VOCA victim assistance grant to all states and most territories to provide subgrants to local organizations and public agencies that provide services directly to crime victims. Examples of services provided include crisis counseling, telephone and onsite information and referrals, criminal justice support and advocacy, shelter, therapy, and additional assistance.
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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 primarily a service-delivery formula grant for victim assistance, not a research, evaluation, or data-infrastructure opportunity. There is some topical overlap with crisis response and public safety, but the NOFO funds direct services to crime victims rather than the kinds of behavioral, survey, or policy research IPPRA leads. Eligibility is also framed around states and territories receiving subgrants, so a university research role would likely be peripheral at best.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is primarily a service-delivery formula grant for victim assistance, not a research, evaluation, or data-infrastructure opportunity. There is some topical overlap with crisis response and public safety, but the NOFO funds direct services to crime victims rather than the kinds of behavioral, survey, or policy research IPPRA leads. Eligibility is also framed around states and territories receiving subgrants, so a university research role would likely be peripheral at best. |
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is primarily a pass-through formula grant to states for direct victim services such as crisis counseling, advocacy, shelter, and therapy. IPPRA’s methods could be relevant to program evaluation or victim-service research, but the opportunity itself is not a strong fit to its core weather/energy/security/public-policy research portfolio. Eligibility is also not clearly open to a public university as a direct applicant, so the fit is capped low. |