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Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants

Program Information

Popular name

(HMRF)

Program Number

93.086

Program objective

Under the Family, Relationship, and Marriage Education Works opportunity, the purpose is to fund projects that provide healthy marriage activities and integrate career advancement opportunities for adults. Under the Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life opportunity, the purpose is to provide healthy marriage promotion services to support youth in late adolescence to early adulthood. Under the Fatherhood - Family-focused, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential opportunity, the purpose is to fund Responsible Fatherhood promotion projects to promote healthy relationships, strengthen positive father-child engagement, and improve economic stability opportunities for adult fathers. For the Child Welfare Services to Tribal Families at Risk of Child Abuse or Neglect Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Child Welfare (TTCW) opportunity, the purpose is to fund projects to test the effectiveness of tribal governments in the provision to tribal families at risk of child abuse or neglect.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    It is projected that 90 continuation awards will be awarded in FY 2016. In FY 2016, 100 continuations grants were awarded in FY 2016.

  2. 2017

    99 continuation grants were awarded in FY 2017.

  3. 2018

    94 continuation grants were awarded in FY 2018.

  4. 2019

    In FY 2019, 86 continuation grants were awarded to HMRF grantee organizations. This cohort of HMRF grants is in the 5th and final year of the project period and will conclude September 30, 2020.

    In FY 2019, 8 TTCW grants were awarded to tribes or tribal consortia. This cohort of TTCW grants are in the 5th and final year of the project period and will conclude September 30, 2020.

  5. 2020

    Awarded 113 new grants under the new HMRF grant competition.

    TTCW projects awarded 8 new grants under the TTCW grant competition for FY 2020.

  6. 2021

    112 noncompetitive continuation awards were awarded under the HMRF grant and 8 noncompetitive continuation awards were awarded under the TTCW program.

  7. 2022

    110 noncompetitive continuation awards were made in the HMRF program and 8 continuation awards were made in the TTCW program.

  8. 2023

    110 noncompetitive continuation awards were made in the HMRF program and 8 continuation awards were made in the TTCW program.

  9. 2024

    110 noncompetitive continuation awards were made under the HMRF awards and 8 noncompetitive continuation awards were made under the TTCW program.

  10. 2025

    With continued appropriation of funds, ACF expects to award new grants under the new HMRF grant competition to be awarded by September 29, 2025. With continued appropriation of funds, ACF expects to award new grants under the TTCW grant competition for FY 2025. Funds to be awarded by September 29, 2025

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

  1. IV, A, 403(a)(2); 42 USC 603(a)(2), Social Security Act.
  2. The Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (CRA). Pub. L. 111, 291.