OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program | O OVW 2025 172290

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVW 2025 172290

The OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program (Funding Opportunity Number O-OVW-2025-172290) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). It is designed to fund pilot sites over a 48-month project period through cooperative agreements, meaning awardees should expect an active federal involvement model that typically includes coordination with OVW on implementation, reporting, and program direction.

The core purpose of the program is to support, strengthen, enhance, and expand existing restorative practice programs that either prevent or respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The solicitation emphasizes alignment with the statutory definition of "restorative practices" referenced at 34 U.S.C. 12514(a)(3). In practical terms, this signals that funded projects are expected to operate within that legal framework and that applicants should be prepared to show how their current restorative practices model fits the statutory definition and how the proposed expansion or enhancement will remain consistent with it.

Eligibility is limited to specific applicant types. Eligible applicants include units of local government (such as county governments and city or township governments), Tribal governments (federally recognized), Tribal organizations, victim service providers, institutions of higher education (including public and state-controlled colleges and universities), and private or public nonprofit organizations, including 501(c)(3) nonprofits (and other eligible entities captured under "Others" as listed in the opportunity). This framing suggests OVW is prioritizing organizations that are already embedded in community response systems, victim services, education settings, or local/Tribal governance structures, and that have an existing restorative practices effort capable of being scaled or improved rather than built from scratch.

Funding is substantial, with an award ceiling of $1,000,000 per award. OVW anticipates making approximately 23 awards under this opportunity. The program is categorized under Law, Justice and Legal Services and is associated with CFDA number 16.052. The original application closing date listed for this opportunity is October 14, 2025, and the opportunity record shows a creation date of August 29, 2025, which is useful for tracking the solicitation timeline and planning internal proposal development, partner coordination, and required registrations.

Overall, this opportunity is aimed at helping communities and institutions deepen the capacity and reach of restorative approaches specifically in the context of gender-based violence-related harm (domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking). Competitive applicants will likely be those that can demonstrate a functioning restorative practices program, a clear plan for strengthening or scaling it over four years, and the organizational readiness to operate under a cooperative agreement structure with OVW.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.052.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-08-29.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-10-14. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 23 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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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