Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Grants - FORGE Fatherhood, HEART, READY4Life
HHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance
Discretionary grants plus research and evaluation activities on responsible fatherhood, healthy relationships for adults, and relationship education for youth. Awards carry evaluation and performance-measurement requirements that researchers commonly partner on.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)OFA states the HMRF programs provide $150 million per year across discretionary grants, contracts, research and evaluation, and other activities. That is the annual program total, not a per-award amount; no per-award figure is published on this page.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.NOT currently open. OFA states a new five-year cohort of 109 awards was made on September 29, 2025, running to September 29, 2030, so the next open competition is expected toward the end of that cycle. Listed here because the evaluation and partnership work under the current cohort is live.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- Community, tribal, faith-based and other organisations delivering healthy marriage or responsible fatherhood activities; authorised under 42 U.S.C. sec. 603(a)(2). Researchers generally participate as evaluation partners to a grantee organisation rather than as direct applicants.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- responsible fatherhood · healthy relationships · youth relationship education · family economic stability
- Apply at
- https://acf.gov/ofa/programs/healthy-marriage-responsible-fatherhood
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
Also on the Social Work Practice shelf
- Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21)National Institutes of Healthup to $275k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Faculty grant programLois and Samuel Silberman Fundup to $50k · Annual cycle
- Scholarships, fellowships and research awardsNASW Foundation$1k–$10k · Annual cycle · Feb, Mar
- Feedback and listening grantsFund for Shared Insight$10k–$100k · Periodic calls
- Crowdfunding for research projectsExperiment$1k–$25k · Rolling / open