Culturally Specific Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services

The Culturally Specific Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services funding opportunity is a federal discretionary grant opportunity administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services. The funding opportunity number is HHS-2026-ACF-OFVPS-EV-0036, and the Assistance Listing is 93.496, Family Violence Prevention and Services/Culturally Specific Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence Services. The opportunity uses cooperative agreements as its funding instrument and is classified by Grants.gov under Income Security and Social Services. The purpose of the program is to provide culturally specific services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The stated objectives include providing services to survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence that address emergent needs resulting from a public health emergency and other public health concerns. The program also supports organizations in promoting strategic partnership development and collaboration when responding to the effects of public health concerns on survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. These objectives establish a service and organizational collaboration focus centered on culturally specific responses for survivors. The opportunity identifies several optional activities that may be supported. These include providing legal advocacy, job training and employment services, and identifying secure and safe affordable temporary or permanent housing. The Grants.gov synopsis does not provide additional detailed spending restrictions, indirect cost limitations, subaward limitations, or a complete list of allowable and unallowable costs. No cost sharing or matching requirement applies. Estimated total program funding is 5000000, with 25 awards expected. Both the stated award floor and award ceiling are 200000, indicating an anticipated award amount of 200000 per award based on the synopsis. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status with the IRS other than institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations without 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, and Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments. Faith-based and community organizations may apply when they otherwise satisfy the eligibility requirements. Individuals, including sole proprietorships, and foreign entities are expressly ineligible and will be disqualified from merit review and funding. The synopsis does not identify a state, territory, county, city, or other subnational geographic restriction for otherwise eligible applicants. The opportunity was posted on August 11, 2026, and the current and original application closing date is September 8, 2026. Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the application due date. Grants.gov provides an Apply function for creating an application workspace. The supplied synopsis does not identify a required letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, initial application, or other pre-application gating requirement. It also does not provide a detailed list of required application narratives, forms, attachments, evaluation criteria, or merit review scoring factors, so those requirements cannot be reliably added from the supplied material. The supplied synopsis does not state an anticipated award notification date, project start date, period of performance, or recurring application schedule. No language establishes that this opportunity is annual, biennial, quarterly, or otherwise recurring, so no future cycle is projected. The archive date is October 8, 2026. For difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, the named grantor contact is Jan-Sheri Morris at Jan-Sheri.Morris@acf.hhs.gov. No telephone number or explicit direct PDF URL for the full funding announcement is provided in the supplied source.

Align the proposal with culturally specific services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault; address emergent needs resulting from public health emergencies or other public health concerns; and demonstrate relevant strategic partnership development and collaboration.