Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, doing business as Mncasa, is a woman-owned nonprofit based in St. Paul, Minnesota that serves as a federal grant recipient focused on sexual assault prevention, victim services coordination, and training and technical assistance for state and local justice system partners. Mncasa operates as a prime recipient on cooperative agreements and formula grants from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and as a sub-recipient on pass-through awards from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Mncasa's federal work concentrates on three capability areas: statewide victim services coordination under OVW's State Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program (CFDA 16.556); Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training and technical assistance under OVW's Training and Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526); and sexual violence prevention capacity building under CDC's Rape Prevention and Education program. Representative prime-recipient work includes a $900,000 cooperative agreement awarded August 1, 2026, by OVW through FY 2025 TA Initiative funding for continuation of the Training and Technical Assistance for Sexual Assault Response Teams project, running through July 31, 2029; a $243,213 formula grant awarded October 1, 2025, under the OVW State and Territory Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program for statewide victim services coordination and sexual assault response capacity in Minnesota, running through September 30, 2026; and a $540,000 four-year CDC project grant awarded June 30, 2024, under CDC-RFA-CE-24-0068 for rape prevention and education capacity enhancement across state and territory sexual assault coalitions, running through June 29, 2028. Prior OVW cooperative agreements supporting SART training and STOP administrator technical assistance closed in 2025 and December 2025.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in OVW. The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women accounts for 33 of 53 total awards (62%), with the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (Victims of Crime program) placing 6 awards and the CDC placing 3. The sub-recipient footprint runs almost entirely through the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, which has passed through technical assistance and direct services awards related to multidisciplinary sexual assault response teams, SANE training, ARPA special projects, and crime victim services. Recent sub-awards from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety date to January 2023 through April 2026. Mncasa's federal grant portfolio splits nearly evenly between prime recipient work (27 awards, 51%) and sub-recipient work (26 awards, 49%).

Activity shows an uptick from 2022 to 2023 (five to eleven awards), a decline in 2024 and 2025 (five and one award respectively), and resumption in 2026 (three awards). Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. Across the portfolio, Mncasa has obligated $15.8 million against all federal grant awards, reflecting cumulative performance on OVW cooperative agreements and CDC project grants spanning sexual assault response team training delivery, statewide coalition coordination, and prevention capacity assessment and implementation work in Minnesota and supported rural and regional communities nationwide.