The Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Fund for Veterans’ Assistance (FVA) grant program awards reimbursement grants to eligible charitable organizations, local government agencies, and veterans service organizations that provide direct services to Texas veterans and their dependents.
Donor Name: Texas Veterans Commission
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant | Reimbursement
Deadline: 11/12/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Funding Goals
The goals of the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance are to:
- Provide support, services, and resources to veterans, dependents, and surviving spouses where they live to improve their quality of life and strengthen their connections and integration with their communities.
- Responsively serve eligible beneficiaries to meet acute and chronic needs.
- Provide grant-funded services and resources that have measurable, positive outcomes.
- Ensure grant-funded projects are available to veterans, dependents, and surviving spouses across the state.
- Ensure a diversity of grant-funded services are available within geographic regions.
- Fund grant projects that support the needs identified in the Needs Assessment and specific program goals approved by the Commission.
Types of Grants
This RFA announces funding opportunities for four (4) different grant programs:
- General Assistance: The General Assistance (GA) Grant Program includes service categories that collectively support veterans, dependents, and surviving spouses who live in Texas.
- Financial Assistance: This service category is temporary and intended to provide limited emergency assistance and financial relief to clients who can demonstrate financial need.
- Supportive Services: This service category is for services identified through case management that provide support for low-income clients to enable stability and promote family integration with the community. Service areas include:
- Meal Services: prepared and delivered meals, conduct safety and wellness checks of the client and their home.
- Elder Care Services: supports the clients’ ability to age in place with dignity and live independently.
- Family Support Services: supports clients in stabilizing relationships, reducing family stress, and promoting integration with their communities.
- Homeless Veterans Support: This service category is for clients who are homeless or have transitioned out of a homeless status and are identified in the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). Services are identified through case management to address acute and chronic conditions underlying the homeless status.
- Skill-based Training Support: This service category is for skill-based resources that support clients to prepare, secure, and maintain employment. Soft skills training is provided by the Texas Veterans’ Commission’s Veteran Employment Services Department, therefore is unallowable.
- Pro Bono Legal Services: This service category is for civil legal services.
- Referral Services: This service category includes programs that provide contact information of organization(s) that provide services needed by the client.
- Organizational Transportation Fleet: This service category is to provide a transportation service to clients in the local area, county, or region with the use of the organization’s fleet.
- Veteran Small Business Support: This service category is for stabilizing or growing 100% veteran-owned businesses for the purpose of maintaining self-employment.
- Housing for Texas Heroes: The Housing for Texas Heroes (H4TXH) Grant Program provides necessary home modifications, repair, and weatherization for low-income veterans and surviving spouses who live in Texas.
- Veterans Mental Health: The Veterans Mental Health (VMH) Grant Program includes three service categories that collectively provide counseling and support to veterans, dependents, and surviving spouses who live in Texas to improve their quality of life, relationships, outlook, and successful integration with their communities.
- Clinical Counseling Services: This service category includes services and treatment that include Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) for diagnosed conditions or co-occurring conditions provided by a Texas Licensed Mental Health Professional (LMHP).
- Peer Support Services: This service category is for services provided by a Certified Peer Support Specialist that contribute to the client’s rehabilitation and recovery. Peer Support Services are provided in a non-clinical environment consisting of retreats, field trips, off-sites, seminars, and/or similar gatherings.
- Service Dog Pilot Program: This pilot program is for organizations accredited by the Assistance Dogs International (ADI) to provide trained service dogs to veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, or military sexual trauma.
- Veterans Treatment Court: The Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) Grant Program supports eligible units of local government in providing services through Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) programs established under Texas Government Code §124.001-.006. Grant funding is intended to support rehabilitation for justice involved veterans who live in Texas to best prepare them for reintegration with their communities.
- Veteran County Service Office Funding Opportunity: The Veteran County Service Office (VCSO) funding opportunity includes all the service categories listed in the General Assistance, Housing for Texas Heroes, and Veterans Mental Health Grant Program. Veteran County Service Officers are eligible to submit one application per grant program and be awarded up to 3 grants per grant period. The Veteran County Service Officer must serve as the Project Manager for the grants awarded. The Texas Government Code §434.017(c-3) directs TVC to set aside at least 5% of FVA funding to be available only to VCSOs who apply for FVA grants. Therefore, County Governments may have 4 grants awarded, including a VTC grant.
Funding Information
The anticipated amount available for awards in 2025-2026 for all four FVA grant programs including the Service Dog Program, VCSO Funding, and grant renewals is $31,000,000.
Grant Period
Grants awarded under this RFA will be for 14 months beginning on July 1, 2025, and ending on August 31, 2026. Reimbursement will only be made for allowable expenses that occur within this grant term.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible to Apply are:
- Organizations providing services under a renewed grant are not eligible for a second renewal and must apply under this RFA for the 2025-2026 grant period.
- Units of local government.
- IRS Code §501(c)(19) Posts or organizations of past or present members of the Armed Forces.
- IRS Code §501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations authorized to do business in Texas; or
- Texas chapters of IRS Code §501(c)(4) Veteran’s service organizations.
For more information, visit TVC.
