Futures Without Violence

Futures Without Violence, a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization and woman-owned business, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering training, technical assistance, and capacity-building services to violence-prevention organizations and justice system professionals under cooperative agreements from the Department of Justice. The organization competes as a prime recipient in 87% of its federal awards and holds no federal contract vehicles; its footprint is entirely grant-funded through the federal grant program ecosystem, particularly the Office on Violence Against Women Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526).

Futures Without Violence's capability portfolio centers on developing and delivering training and technical assistance to build organizational and professional capacity in response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. Representative work includes a $750,000 cooperative agreement from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded August 1, 2026, to develop resources and deliver basic and intermediate training to state and tribal court judges on improving justice system response to abuse in later life, running through July 31, 2029. A parallel $500,000 OVW cooperative agreement, also awarded August 1, 2026, funds the Engaging Men on Campus project providing training and technical assistance to OVW campus grantees on engaging men in prevention of and response to violence against women through July 31, 2029. Earlier work includes a $1.5 million OVW cooperative agreement from October 2023 for the Strategies to Advance Greater Elder Safety 3.0 project, which selects pilot sites and delivers curricula, training institutes, and ongoing technical assistance to community-based organizations serving older adult survivors of abuse, paired with funding from OVW's Innovation Fund. Futures also received a $750,000 OVW cooperative agreement in October 2023 to implement the Advancing Safety Through Employment Rights Advocacy Project, building capacity of attorneys and advocates serving Black, Latina, Indigenous, disabled, Deaf, and LGBTQIA+ survivors to assist with employment protection access. The organization operates the National Workplace Domestic and Sexual Violence website and Resource Center under the Resource Center on Workplace Response program (CFDA 16.028), having received a $1 million cooperative agreement from OVW in October 2022.

Customer concentration is dominated by the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, which accounts for 39 of the organization's 91 total awards (43% of award count) across its grant portfolio. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families holds the second-largest share with 17 awards combined across two sub-agencies. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Victims of Crime office, and the Office of Justice Programs together represent the remaining Department of Justice funding. Combined, the top five customer agencies account for 70% of awards and include the CDC's Office of Acquisition Services, though specific dollar magnitudes for most customer relationships are not disclosed in the source. OVW's dominance is structural: the organization's entire recent award footprint reflects continuation and new awards under OVW's training and technical assistance initiative and emerging issues solicitations, indicating a deep alignment with OVW's violence-prevention mission.

Futures Without Violence operates predominantly through direct prime-recipient relationships with federal grant programs rather than through contracts or larger government-wide acquisition vehicles. The organization does not sit on IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs. When the organization acts as a subrecipient, it partners with prime grantees including the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges on curriculum development and judicial training delivery, Caminar Latino Inc. on domestic violence coalitions and resource development, the University of Pittsburgh on healing-centered systems research, Justice Innovation Inc. on the Justice for Families Train-the-Trainer project, Research Triangle Institute on evaluation and synthesis work, and Pact Inc. on use of the Coaching Boys into Men curriculum developed by Futures Without Violence. One federal contract sub-award with Child Trends, Incorporated involves development and formative testing of intimate partner violence and teen dating violence program approaches for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood programs.

Recent activity shows modest award volume with six awards in 2022 declining to three awards in 2026 (year-to-date). Of the 91 total awards in the source, three reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure. The Service Contract Inventory dataset contains only one record, a subcontractor engagement in FY2024, indicating that Futures Without Violence's federal revenue is driven almost entirely by grant cooperative agreements rather than service contracts subject to SCI reporting thresholds. The organization's federal grant footprint places it as a specialized capacity-builder and training provider in the violence-prevention ecosystem, with minimal direct federal contract exposure and no presence on government-wide contracting vehicles.