Steps To End Domestic Violence, Inc.

Steps To End Domestic Violence, Inc., a Vermont-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization, operates as a federal grant recipient providing domestic violence shelter, prevention services, and supportive housing to homeless individuals and families, with 61% of its recent federal footprint as a prime grant recipient and 39% as a sub-recipient under state and regional domestic violence intermediaries.

The organization's federal grant portfolio centers on two substantive programs. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds Steps To End Domestic Violence through the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) to operate permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families in Colchester, Vermont. Steps To End Domestic Violence has received five consecutive annual CoC awards since 2021, with the most recent award of $175,221 dated December 1, 2024, running through November 30, 2025, and a subsequent award dated December 1, 2025, running through November 30, 2026. The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women funded a $499,945 Consolidated and Technical Assistance Grant Program award (CFDA 16.888) from October 1, 2021, through October 1, 2024, supporting school-based prevention, intervention, and response services addressing dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking among youth. As a sub-recipient, Steps To End Domestic Violence has received multiple awards through the Vermont Center For Crime Victims under federal victim assistance programs including VOCA (Victims of Crime Act), STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors), and FVPSA (Family Violence Prevention and Services Act) funding streams, with sub-awards spanning October 2022 through October 2025.

Activity has been modest and variable — two awards in 2022, one in 2023, five in 2024, and four projected in 2025 — with combined dollars obligated of $3.9 million across all 23 awards since 2005. The organization's customer agencies cluster tightly: HUD's Community Planning and Development office (9 awards), the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women and related victim-services offices (10 awards combined), and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (2 awards) account for 91% of the award count. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure. The organization operates no federal contracts and holds no positions on government-wide acquisition vehicles or blanket purchase agreements; all federal funding flows through discretionary grant programs targeting nonprofit domestic violence service providers and homeless service organizations.