Deadline: 10-Jun-25
The Sexual Assault Services Formula Program (SAS Formula Program) provides grant dollars to states and territories to assist them in supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, or tribal programs that provide direct intervention and related assistance to victims of sexual assault, without regard to age.
Purpose Areas
- Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- To provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance to:
- adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault;
- family and household members of such victims; and
- those collaterally affected by the victimization, except by the perpetrator of such victimization.
- To provide intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance to:
Priorities
- States and territories are encouraged to develop and support projects, to the extent consistent with the program’s authorizing statute, that substantively address one or more of the priorities listed below:
- Measures to combat human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked to illegal immigration and cartel operations, that support safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking.
- Projects to provide victim services, especially housing, and improve law enforcement response in rural and remote areas, Tribal nations, and small towns that often lack resources to effectively combat domestic violence and sexual assault.
Funding Information
- Expected Total Amount of Funding: $52,042,135
- Expected Award Amount(s) $256,557- $2,065,486
Duration
- Expected Award Period(s) is 24 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- Eligible applicants are any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Only the designated state office may apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.