Jersey Battered Womens Service

Jersey Battered Women's Service, Inc., a Morris Plains, New Jersey-based nonprofit domestic violence shelter, acts as a prime recipient on federal grants focused on transitional housing, homelessness prevention, and victim support services for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The organization also receives sub-grant funding through the New Jersey Department of Law & Public Safety under the STOP Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) programs. The organization does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint is grant-funded.

Jersey Battered Women's Service's grant portfolio centers on HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) program awards and Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women transitional housing and coordinated community-response grants. As a prime recipient, the organization has secured ongoing CoC funding from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development to provide permanent housing (including permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing), transitional housing, supportive services, and homelessness prevention activities. Recent prime grants include a $217,951 CoC award (CFDA 14.267) from HUD (award date November 1, 2025, completion October 31, 2026) and a three-year Transitional Housing Assistance grant under the Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.736, award date October 1, 2024, completion September 30, 2027) to operate eleven clustered residences serving survivors and their families, with support from partner organizations including Legal Services of Northwest Jersey, Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs, Literacy Volunteers of Morris County, Norwescap, Child & Family Resources, and the Women's Center at CCM. A second Office on Violence Against Women grant supporting improved criminal justice responses to domestic violence (award date October 1, 2023, completion September 30, 2027) pairs Jersey Battered Women's Service with Morris County government, law enforcement, and community partners to develop coordinated response strategies.

Customer concentration is narrow and grant-agency driven. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 20 awards (52% of all awards by count), and the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women accounts for 13 awards (34%), together representing 97% of the award portfolio. Sub-grant activity flows through the New Jersey Department of Law & Public Safety under VAWA and VOCA formulas; the organization has received sub-awards under both programs as recently as April 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $8.7 million, with $172,614 to $449,728 per individual prime grant. Activity has grown modestly year over year—one award in 2022 to six in 2024—with three awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the organization to recompete risk in that window. The organization's service delivery emphasizes culturally sensitive, victim-centered support targeting underserved populations including Spanish-speaking survivors and LGBTQIA+ individuals.