Veterans: Find Assistance In Your Area During This Health Emergency
Looking for assistance nearby? We’ve listed organizations that can help in the Grantee Assistance Directories. Click on the covers to find your region’s grantees.
Fund for Veterans’ Assistance
Coordinating Funding to Support Veterans and their Families Across Texas
The Texas Veterans Commission Fund for Veterans’ Assistance (FVA) grant program awards reimbursement grants to eligible charitable organizations, local government agencies, and Veterans Service Organizations that provide direct services to Texas Veterans and their families.
2021-2022 Applications Now Open
The Texas Veterans Commission released the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance Request for Applications for the 2021-2022 grant cycle on September 5, 2020. The deadline to submit all applications is November 5, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. (CDST). Award decisions will be made by the Commission in May 2021. Visit Apply Home for more information.
Assistance Available Today
2020-2021 grants were awarded by the Commission at the May 14, 2020 meeting. View the Grants Assistance Directories for more information on these organizations. Since 2009, the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance has awarded over $168 million to organizations across Texas to help over 300,000 Veterans and their families.
GA
General Assistance
These grants address the needs of Texas Veterans and their families. Such needs include, but are not limited to, the following: limited emergency assistance; family and child services; transportation services; legal services, excluding criminal defense; and employment, training, education, and job placement assistance.
H4TXH
Housing for Texas Heroes
These grants assist Texas Veterans and their families in obtaining, maintaining, or improving housing. Projects include homeless Veterans support, Veteran homelessness prevention, home modification assistance, and housing assistance for families of Veterans being treated at Texas medical facilities.
VCSO
Veterans County Service Office
SB 1679 (85th Legislature) created a 5% set-aside for VCSO applications for FVA grants. This funding is available for General Assistance, Housing for Texas Heroes, and Veterans Mental Health grant applications with the Veteran County Service Officer listed as the Project Coordinator.
HRT
Highly Rural Transportation
This Department of Veterans Affairs-funded grant addresses the lack of transportation resources Veterans face when trying to access medical care. The grant targets Veterans in highly rural counties where travel times are typically longer, or where arranging transportation to their VA medical appointments (or VA-arranged, non-VA appointments) may be difficult.
Upcoming Events
Sun 27
2021-2022 Grant Applications Accepted
September 5 @ 8:00 am - November 5 @ 5:00 pm
Tue 29
2021-2022 Grant Eligibility Webinar
September 29 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Oct 08
FVA 2021-2022 Grant Application Informational Webinar
October 8 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
FVA In The Media
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Caldwell County Veterans Service Officer expands services with Fund for Veterans’ Assistance grant
Caldwell’s Veterans County Service Officer (VCSO) Dr. Al Dos Santos is offering more services to veterans with the help of a Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) grant awarde...
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2021-2022 Fund for Veterans Assistance Request For Applications
Download the Request For Applications as a PDF Download the Program Requirements and Terms & Conditions as a PDF Table of Contents I. Purpose II Grant Programs and...
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The Fund for Veterans’ Assistance Announcement of the Release of the Grant Program’ Request for Applications for the 2021 – 2022 Grant Period
Visit the Apply Home page for more information on applying for this funding opportunity. Read the 2021-2022 Request for Applications text here. This post was originally publis...
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Home improvement in Amarillo, resources in Waco show FVA at work
Since 2009, the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance has distributed over $168 million in grants to organizations that profoundly impact the lives of Texas veterans and their f...