OVC FY25 Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence Program | O OVC 2025 172432

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OVC 2025 172432

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is offering a discretionary grant opportunity titled the OVC FY25 Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence Program (Funding Opportunity Number: O-OVC-2025-172432; CFDA 16.582). The purpose of this program is to expand safe shelter and transitional housing options for people experiencing domestic violence by also addressing a major barrier to safety: the need to protect and house companion animals. Under this program, "companion animals" is defined broadly to include pets, service animals, emotional support animals, and horses. OVC is funding this work because many domestic violence shelters do not allow animals, and survivors may delay leaving or avoid services altogether if they cannot bring their animals with them.

Funding is intended to help domestic violence shelters and related service systems build or strengthen capacity to accommodate survivors with animals. That can include creating on-site pet-friendly sheltering options, developing transitional housing models that allow animals, or otherwise providing assistance that enables survivors and their animals to remain together while the survivor seeks safety and stability. The overall focus is practical and safety-driven: reducing the likelihood that survivors stay in or return to dangerous situations due to concerns about what will happen to their animals, and expanding the network of victim services that can safely support the full household, including animals.

Eligibility is broad and includes multiple levels of government and a range of nonprofit and community organizations. Eligible applicants listed in the source data include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. The opportunity also explicitly includes "other units of local government," which for this program means towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, and other general-purpose political subdivisions of a state. Beyond government entities, eligible applicants include organizations with a documented history of effective work related to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Examples named in the description include domestic violence and sexual assault victim service providers, coalitions, community-based and culturally specific organizations, and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations. The program also makes clear that animal-focused organizations can be eligible when they collaborate with victim-service organizations, including animal shelters and animal welfare organizations that work directly with pets, service animals, emotional support animals, or horses.

The award instrument is a grant, and the funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $500,000. The opportunity was created on July 22, 2025, and the original closing date for applications is August 15, 2025. The expected number of awards is not provided in the source text.

In practical terms, this grant is designed for agencies and partners that want to build pet-inclusive survivor services, whether that means adapting facilities and policies at domestic violence shelters, creating partnerships with animal shelters or welfare groups, or developing coordinated approaches that keep survivors and their animals safe during emergency shelter stays and longer-term transitional housing. The central theme is expanding access to victim services by removing animal-related barriers and ensuring survivors do not have to choose between their own safety and the safety of the animals they care for.

• The Office for Victims of Crime in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVC FY25 Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.582.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-08-15. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others.

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