OVC FY26 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance - Minneapolis, Minnesota (Crisis)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-OVC-2026-172691
- Agency
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Victims of Crime
Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $4,805,538
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Income Security and Social Services
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- OJP Response Center ojp.responsecenter@usdoj.gov (800) 851-3420
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime is soliciting applications for the FY 2026 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance addressing the Minneapolis, Minnesota crisis, with an application deadline of August 21, 2026. This is an invited-applicant-only solicitation; OVC identifies and invites specific entities to apply based on their response to the mass violence or terrorism incident.
Eligible applicants are entities invited by OVC to apply, typically including state and local government agencies responding to the incident. Applicants may seek one or more of four grant types—crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation—in a single application or as separate awards. The program requires that the incident be sufficiently large in scope that the jurisdiction cannot provide needed services to victims with existing resources while simultaneously supporting victims of other crimes in a timely and comprehensive manner. OVC accesses AEAP funds only where incidents involve unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broad targeting of victims or otherwise possess unique aspects; the agency expects states and communities to address gang-related violence, domestic violence, and broader community gun violence from existing VOCA resources.
Award amounts vary based on incident scope and victim needs; recent AEAP awards have ranged from $750 thousand to $8.5 million. The period of performance is retroactive to the incident date. No cost share or matching requirement is imposed on applicants. The Assistance Listing / CFDA number is 16.321 (Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve). Award decisions are made by the Assistant Attorney General, and recipients must accept or decline within 45 days of notification.
Synopsis
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OVC FY 2026 Invited to Apply Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program for Crime Victim Compensation and/or Assistance. This opportunity supports victims of mass violence and terrorism through the Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP). Funding for this program comes from the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve (the Emergency Reserve). Along with non-grant training and consultation services, there are four types of grants that may be combined into one application or awarded separately to entities OVC invites to apply for funding: crisis response, consequence management, criminal justice support, and crime victim compensation. The overall goal of AEAP is to provide supplemental support to criminal mass violence and terrorism victims. The overall objective is to increase access to programs designed to improve services, assistance (including victim compensation), and outcomes for victims of mass violence and terrorism. AEAP grants are a mechanism by which the Director of OVC may award supplemental crime victim compensation and assistance to eligible entities responding to acts of mass criminal violence or domestic terrorism. The event must be sufficiently large that the jurisdiction cannot provide needed services to victims of the incident with existing resources, while also supporting victims of other crimes, in a timely and comprehensive manner. OVC generally accesses AEAP funds only in response to incidents that are sufficiently large in scope for the locale, and typically only where there was an unpredictable, indiscriminate, or broad targeting of victims, or otherwise unique aspect to the crime. In most cases, OVC expects States and communities to plan for and address victim needs stemming from relatively more predictable instances of gang-related violence, domestic violence, and broader community gun violence, from existing VOCA resources.
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