Federal grant programs / Department of Justice

Keep Young Athletes Safe (16.840)

Also known as Kevin and Avonte's Law

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$9.0 million
• Grant awards2
• Typical award$4.5 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank1,519 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements, project grants

Key findings

• It is the 1519th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• Awards went to recipients in 1 states and territories.

What the program funds

Program goal(s) name: Safeguard athletes against abuse. Program goal(s) description: Support oversight of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and each national governing body to safeguard amateur athletes against sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in sports. Program objective(s) name: Implement training and protocols and conduct audits to oversee and ensure compliance with procedures to protect young athletes. Program objective(s) description: Establish effective oversight of sports organizations by providing comprehensive training programs, policies, and standards to prevent abuse; develop background screening policies for new and existing USOPC and NGB organizational staff, including coaches, instructors and volunteers; oversee audits to ensure policies and procedures are followed correctly; ensure mechanisms are in place to report to investigative and prosecutorial authorities all forms of abuse; and establish best practices to address and support victims of abuse.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Up to $2,500,000 annually for one award to support the Keep Young Athletes Safe grant program.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to nonprofits.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.