OVC FY26 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance Wisconsin Compensation

The OVC Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Wisconsin Compensation is a federal discretionary grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime. The program is supported through Assistance Listing 16.321, Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve. Funding comes from the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve and is intended to provide supplemental assistance in response to incidents of mass violence and terrorism. This particular notice is an invited opportunity and is not a competitive notice of funding opportunity. Only the applicant directly invited by the Office for Victims of Crime is eligible to submit an application. The Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program supports victims of mass violence and terrorism. Its overall goal is to provide supplemental support to victims of criminal mass violence and terrorism, while its objective is to increase access to programs that improve services, assistance, including victim compensation, and outcomes for affected victims. The Office for Victims of Crime may use the program to provide supplemental crime victim compensation and assistance to eligible entities responding to acts of mass criminal violence or domestic terrorism. The incident must be sufficiently large that the jurisdiction cannot provide needed services to victims using existing resources while also continuing to support victims of other crimes in a timely and comprehensive manner. The broader Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program provides four types of grants that may be combined in a single application or awarded separately to entities invited by the Office for Victims of Crime: crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. The source identifies this opportunity specifically as Wisconsin Compensation. The Office for Victims of Crime generally accesses Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program funds for incidents that are sufficiently large in scope for the affected locale and typically where there was unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broad targeting of victims or another unique aspect of the crime. The agency generally expects states and communities to address relatively more predictable gang-related violence, domestic violence, and broader community gun violence through existing Victims of Crime Act resources. The estimated total program funding is $1,974,787, with one award expected. The stated award ceiling is $1,974,787. Grants.gov reports an award floor of $0; because a zero does not establish a meaningful minimum award amount, no award floor is treated as specified for data entry purposes. No cost sharing or matching requirement applies. The source does not state a period of performance, indirect cost limitation, subaward limitation, or other specific spending restriction beyond describing the purposes and circumstances for which Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program support is available. Eligibility is restricted to the invited applicant. Grants.gov categorizes eligible applicants as Others and clarifies that only the invited applicant is eligible to apply, that the opportunity is not competitive, and that the Office for Victims of Crime will contact potential applicants directly. The opportunity title identifies the invited funding purpose as Wisconsin Compensation. Because eligibility depends on a direct invitation rather than membership in a generally available applicant category, organizations or individuals that have not been invited should not treat the notice as an open competitive funding opportunity. The opportunity was posted on September 1, 2026, and the current and original application closing date is September 8, 2026. The source provides an Apply link through Grants.gov and indicates that submission is available through the Grants.gov workspace process. No separate letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating deadline is stated. The provided source does not identify application questions, required narrative sections, evaluation criteria, an award notification date, a performance period, or a recurring future application cycle. No recurrence language is provided, so the September 8, 2026 deadline is treated as a one-time deadline for this notice. For assistance with the requirements of the funding opportunity, applicants may contact the OJP Response Center by email at OJP.ResponseCenter@usdoj.gov or by telephone at 800-851-3420. A TTY number for hearing-impaired callers is 202-353-5556. The stated hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. The source also provides an Office for Victims of Crime current funding opportunities webpage, but it does not provide an explicit direct PDF URL for the notice or its guidelines.

This is an invitation-only opportunity. The application should address supplemental support for victims of mass violence or terrorism and the need for resources beyond those available to the jurisdiction while it continues serving victims of other crimes.