OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program
Funds transitional housing and support services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking who are homeless or need housing assistance, for eligible governments and organizations with documented experience in these services.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV · TRIBAL ENTITIES · NONPROFITS
⚑ Applicant must have a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. · Funds transitional housing and support services, not research. · No cost-sharing information stated in the notice.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | peripheral portfolio topic: public_health; signature methods: community engaged; social/behavioral work is minor; funds service delivery, not research (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | technical depth: none; funds service delivery (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
The Transitional Housing program funds transitional housing and support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance because of domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking (VAWA crimes). Eligible applicants are Tribal, state, and local governments and organizations with a documented history of effective work concerning VAWA crimes.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are limited to: States, units of local government, Indian Tribes, and other organizations that have a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Office on Violence Against Women <OVW.TransitionalHousing@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 grant for transitional housing and support services for victims of violence, not a research or data-infrastructure opportunity. While there is a public-health/crisis-response angle, the program is targeted to implementation by governments and service organizations with a history of direct VAWA work, so a public research university would not be a natural applicant unless embedded as a service partner; even then, the fit would remain limited.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is primarily a service-delivery grant for transitional housing and support services for victims of violence, not a research or data-infrastructure opportunity. While there is a public-health/crisis-response angle, the program is targeted to implementation by governments and service organizations with a history of direct VAWA work, so a public research university would not be a natural applicant unless embedded as a service partner; even then, the fit would remain limited. |
| 2026-07-06 | 24 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a victim-services and housing-support grant focused on domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and related crisis response. IPPRA’s strongest alignment would be in behavioral intervention, community-based evaluation, and service-access research, but the opportunity is primarily practice/service delivery rather than a research program. Public universities appear eligible only if they qualify as an eligible organization with a documented history of effective work, so this is a weak-to-tangential fit overall. |