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Child Abuse and Neglect State Grants

Program Information

Popular name

CAPTA State Grants

Program Number

93.669

Program objective

To assist States in the support and improvement of their child protective services systems.

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 anticipated that 56 grants will be awarded in FY 2016. 56 grants were awarded in FY 2016

  2. 2017

    56 grants were awarded in FY 2017.

  3. 2018

    56 grants were awarded in FY 2018.

  4. 2019

    56 grants were awarded in FY 2019.

  5. 2020

    56 grants were awarded in FY 2020.

  6. 2021

    Funds were awarded to 56 state and territorial grantees in FY 2021. Supplemental funding of $100 million was appropriated for the CAPTA program under Public Law (P.L) 117-2, The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, enacted on March 21, 2021. As with the regular appropriation, this additional funding may be used to improve the child protective services system of the state in a manner consistent with any of the 14 program purposes of CAPTA. These supplemental funds were awarded to the 56 grantees.

  7. 2023

    Funds were awarded to 56 state and territorial recipients in FY 2023.

  8. 2024

    It is anticipated that funds will be awarded to 56 state and territorial recipients in FY 2024.

  9. 2025

    It is anticipated that funds will be awarded to 56 state and territorial recipients in FY 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.

The following Program Instructions (PI) apply to this program: ACYF-CB-PI-21-07, and ACYF-CB-PI-24-02.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Child (6-15)
  • Individual/Family
  • Infant (0-5)
  • Youth (16-21)

Additional resources