Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Elder Abuse Prevention Interventions Program (93.747)

Also known as Elder Abuse Prevention Intervention Projects

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$394 million
• Grant awards259
• Typical award$611,785
• Awarded in FY 2025-$1.8 million
• Size rank427 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements (discretionary grants)

Key findings

• It is the 427th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 63% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 56 states and territories.

What the program funds

To develop, implement, and evaluate successful or promising interventions, practices, and programs to prevent elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including adult protective services programs. Through this program, ACL hopes to demonstrate how existing research can be used to craft new, useful programs to address elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation and improve and enhance adult protective services programming.

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

Forecast opportunities

• FY2027 Grants to Highest State Courts to Improve Guardianship
  Forecast · Expected deadline May 17, 2027 · up to $500,000
• Elder Justice Innovation Grants FY2027
  Forecast · Expected deadline May 17, 2027 · up to $500,000
• National Adult Protective Services Training Center
  Forecast · Expected deadline May 17, 2027 · up to $1.3 million

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Eligible entities for grants authorized under Section 411 of the Older Americans Act are: domestic public or private non-profit entities including state and local governments, Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American), faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and institutions of higher education, are eligible. For grants authorized under Section 2042 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, state government entities are eligible to apply.

What the money can and cannot pay for

The use of these funds is to support primary, secondary, and/or tertiary elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation activities, interventions, and programs. (a) state and tribal efforts to develop successful prevention interventions using existing research in order to prevent and detect elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (b) building on the scientific and programmatic knowledge base by developing and evaluating new elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation interventions; (c) enhance the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of adult protective services secondary and tertiary prevention activities. The following activities are not fundable: Construction and/or major rehabilitation of buildings, Basic research (e.g. scientific or medical experiments), Continuation of existing projects without expansion, and Pre-award costs.;

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

Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)) FY 20 $12,000,000.00; FY 21 $12,000,000.00; (COVID-19 Funds (CARES ACT round 1 funding $93,880,000, ARPA round 2 funding $86,060,000)) FY 22 $19,000,000.00 (est)

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

State and local governments received 93% of the money, nonprofits 2.1% and colleges and universities 1.5%.

By state

52 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

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