The Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive (HEART) program funds projects that support activities to promote healthy marriages, including marriage and relationship education skills and marriage mentoring.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/29/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive (HEART) program will provide funding for projects that support activities to promote healthy marriages and/or relationships to ultimately strengthen families. This funding will be designed for adult individuals or couples (age 18 and older). Projects will provide a broad array of healthy marriage and relationship promotion activities and services designed to integrate skills-based healthy marriage education, along with additional services to address relationship skills and job and career advancement opportunities. Projects will provide curriculum based skills development and services designed to support seven family-strengthening activities:
- Marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES).
- Premarital education.
- Marriage enhancement.
- Divorce reduction activities.
- Marriage mentoring.
- Public advertising campaigns.
- Activities to reduce disincentives to marriage.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $34,650,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,250,000
- Award Floor: $400,000.
Grant Period
The project period has five one-year budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- County governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
