OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Human Trafficking | O OVC 2025 172520

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2025 172520

The OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Human Trafficking grant (Funding Opportunity Number: O-OVC-2025-172520) is a discretionary federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), designed to build up victim service capacity for people harmed by human trafficking across the United States and U.S. territories. The overall aim is practical and service-driven: develop, expand, and strengthen programs that can identify trafficking victims and deliver the kind of wraparound support that helps them reach safety, stability, and recovery. The opportunity emphasizes serving victims of all forms of trafficking, which typically includes both sex trafficking and labor trafficking, and it is meant for programs that serve adults or programs that serve adults alongside minors and youth.

A central feature of the NOFO is its focus on comprehensive and specialized services. In plain terms, OVC is looking to fund programs that do more than provide one isolated service. The expectation is a coordinated approach that can respond to the complex realities trafficking survivors face, including immediate safety planning and crisis needs as well as longer-term supports. While the source text does not list service categories line by line, the phrase "comprehensive and specialized services" generally signals that funded programs should be able to connect survivors to a broad continuum of care and survivor-centered assistance, often through direct service delivery, partnerships, or formal referral networks.

The geographic scope is explicitly nationwide and includes U.S. territories. The NOFO clarifies what it means by "state" for eligibility and program reach: it includes any U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. It also clarifies the meaning of "other units of local government," which can include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, and other general-purpose political subdivisions of a state. This matters for applicant eligibility and helps smaller local governments understand that they may qualify under the local government categories even if they are not a county or major city.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of public and nonprofit entities that commonly operate victim services or oversee community safety and social service systems. Eligible applicants listed in the source data include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The listing also includes an "Others" category, which is typically used in federal postings to capture additional eligible entity types described in the full NOFO, though the key categories are already spelled out in the eligibility field and the definitions provided.

There is an additional eligibility restriction aimed at nonprofit tax compliance: nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding payment of the tax described in 26 U.S.C. 511(a) are not eligible to apply. That provision is intended to exclude nonprofits using offshore arrangements to avoid unrelated business income tax obligations, and applicants should be prepared to certify compliance with federal requirements as part of the application process.

From a funding mechanics standpoint, this is a grant (Funding Instrument Type: Grant) under the broad activity area of Income Security and Social Services, and it is associated with CFDA number 16.320, which is OVC's human trafficking victim services assistance program. The posted award ceiling is $950,000, which indicates the maximum amount an individual award is expected to reach under this competition. The posting does not show a value for the number of expected awards in the provided source data, so applicants should rely on the full NOFO for any target award counts, anticipated award amounts, project periods, match requirements (if any), and other budget and program design expectations.

Key administrative details from the source data include an original closing date of 2026-03-11 and a creation date of 2025-12-30. Applicants should treat the closing date as the submission deadline and plan backward from that date to allow time for required registrations and internal reviews, since federal grant submissions often require active registration in federal systems and can involve attachments, program narratives, budgets, and documentation of partnerships or service capacity.

In summary, this opportunity is meant to strengthen the national network of trafficking victim service providers by funding programs that can deliver survivor-centered, comprehensive support for adults and, where applicable, minors and youth. It is open to a wide range of governmental, tribal, housing, higher education (public/state-controlled), and nonprofit 501(c)(3) entities, with a specific restriction on certain nonprofits using offshore accounts to avoid specific tax obligations, and it offers awards up to $950,000 per grant with an application deadline of March 11, 2026.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Human Trafficking" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.320.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-12-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2026-03-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $950,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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