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BJA grants

The Bureau of Justice Assistance funds local and state criminal justice work: policing, courts, corrections, reentry, and substance use and mental health programs in the justice system. Its largest program, Byrne JAG, goes to states and localities by formula.

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Open and forecast BJA opportunities

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  1. Closes21 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Invited to Apply- Medicaid and Corrections Program

    DOJ · Others

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY 26 Invited to Apply – Medicaid and Corrections Program. This opportunity seeks to support the delivery of highly specialized technical assistance and training to sheriffs, jail administrators, state departments of correction, and correctional leaders and staff in order to support understanding and imp

    Closes todayUp to $800,000
  2. Closes21 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Tribal Justice Training and Technical Assistance Program

    DOJ · Public colleges, Nonprofits (not 501(c)(3)), Small businesses, +4 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 26 Tribal Justice Training and Technical Assistance Program. This opportunity strengthens Tribal justice systems by providing specialized technical experts to assist federally recognized Indian Tribes in developing, implementing, and enhancing justice systems. The program addresses violent crime,

    Closes todayUp to $1.9 million
  3. Closes28 OCT

    OJP FY 2026 Special Attorneys Program Round 10

    DOJ · Tribes, States, Others, +2 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJP FY 2026 Special Attorneys Program. This program will support state, local, Tribal, and territorial prosecuting agencies to assign or hire qualified prosecutors to serve full-time or part-time (on a case-by-case basis) as Special Attorneys under the direction of the National Fraud Enforcement Division

    Closes in 7 daysUp to $3 million
  4. Closes29 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Capital Case Litigation Initiative: Improving the Quality of Legal Representation in State Capital Cases

    DOJ · Others

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Capital Case Litigation Initiative: Improving the Quality of Legal Representation in State Capital Cases. This opportunity will enhance the ability of prosecutors to effectively represent the public in state capital cases and to improve the quality of legal representation for defense attorney

    Closes in 8 daysUp to $450,000
  5. Closes29 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program

    DOJ · Cities and towns, States, Special districts, +3 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program. This opportunity will support states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to process, and/or to increase the capacity to process, more DNA samples for entry into t

    Closes in 8 daysUp to $3.5 million
  6. Closes29 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement- Competitive Grants Program

    DOJ · States, Counties, Cities and towns, +3 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY26 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement—Competitive Grants Program. This opportunity funds improvements to forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government.

    Closes in 8 daysUp to $500,000
  7. Closes29 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

    DOJ · Cities and towns, Special districts, Tribal organizations, +4 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA (COLD) Program. This opportunity supports prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of violent cold case crimes where a DNA profile from a suspect is already developed. This initiative aims to enhance public safety, hold violent offenders accountable, a

    Closes in 8 daysUp to $750,000
  8. Closes29 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Veterans Treatment Court Program

    DOJ · Tribes, Cities and towns, Counties, +4 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY2026 Veterans Treatment Court Program. This opportunity supports the implementation and enhancement of veterans’ treatment court (VTC) operations to reduce the use of opioids, stimulants, and other substances, including alcohol, by high-risk/high-need veterans in the criminal justice system. VTCs e

    Closes in 8 daysUp to $2.5 million
  9. Closes30 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Adult Treatment Court Program

    DOJ · Tribes, Others, Counties, +2 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY2026 Adult Treatment Court Program. This opportunity supports the implementation and enhancement of Adult Treatment Court (ATC) operations to prevent overdoses and reduce the use of opioids, stimulants, and other substances by high-risk/high-need adults in the criminal justice system. Adult Treatme

    Closes in 9 daysUp to $2.5 million
  10. Closes30 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 National Center for Veterans Justice

    DOJ · For-profits, Nonprofits, Nonprofits (not 501(c)(3)), +3 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 National Center for Veterans Justice. This opportunity will establish a national center to provide specialized support to state, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies; treatment and service providers; courts; corrections systems; and community supervision agencies to effectively support

    Closes in 9 daysUp to $4 million
  11. Closes30 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative

    DOJ · States, Tribes, Special districts, +4 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative. This opportunity supports local law enforcement in rural jurisdictions to prevent, respond to, and reduce violent crime. The goal is to equip rural law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices with the resources necessary to implement a violent c

    Closes in 9 daysUp to $2.6 million
  12. Closes30 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program

    DOJ · Tribes, Nonprofits (not 501(c)(3)), Nonprofits

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program. This opportunity will support community-based organizations and tribal governments to provide mentoring and transitional services for people returning to communities from adult correctional facilities and who are assessed as moderate to high

    Closes in 9 daysUp to $1 million
  13. Closes30 OCT

    BJA FY 2026 Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program

    DOJ · Counties, Public colleges, Tribes, +8 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Students, Teachers, and Officers Prevention (STOP) School Violence Program. This opportunity supports programs to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introducing technologies like

    Closes in 9 daysUp to $2 million
  14. Closes30 OCT

    BJA FY26 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement - Formula Grants Program

    DOJ · States

    Under the Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvements Grant Program, state administering agencies (SAAs) may be eligible and apply for both formula and competitive funds. This NOFO is ONLY for formula funds. An applicant seeking to apply for Coverdell competitive funds (consistent with 34 U.S.C. § 10563(a)(2)) that are available to eligible states and units

    Closes in 9 daysUp to $24 million
  15. Closes02 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)

    DOJ · For-profits, Small businesses, Nonprofits, +3 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the Comprehensive Opioid Stimulant and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA). This opportunity will provide training and technical assistance to BJA COSSUP grantees to address technical operational challenges to improve responses to overdose deaths, illicit opioids, stimulant

    Closes in 12 daysUp to $2 million
  16. Closes02 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program

    DOJ · Nonprofits (not 501(c)(3)), Cities and towns, Others, +8 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions Program. This opportunity strengthens the capacity of wrongful conviction review (WCR) entities and their criminal justice and victims’ services partners to more effectively and efficiently identify, assess, and manage post-convict

    Closes in 12 daysUp to $600,000
  17. Closes03 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program—Local Formula

    DOJ · Counties, Cities and towns, Tribes, +2 more

    The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is committed to advancing work that furthers the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) mission to keep our country safe and secure and uphold the rule of law and protect the rights of American citizens. OJP provides federal leadership, funding, and other critical resources to directly support law enforcement, combat violent

    Closes in 13 daysUp to $5 million
  18. Closes03 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 John R. Justice (JRJ) Formula Grant Program

    DOJ · States

    This opportunity provides loan repayment assistance for local and state prosecutors and local, state, and federal public defenders who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years. States receiving funding will administer statewide programs through state agencies designated by the governor by soliciting applicat

    Closes in 13 daysUp to $120,000
  19. Closes03 NOV

    BJA FY26 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Competitive Grants Program

    DOJ · Special districts, Others, Cities and towns, +2 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) — Competitive Grants Program. This opportunity will increase capacity of states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories to process DNA samples for entry into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). The purpose of the

    Closes in 13 daysUp to $4.9 million
  20. Closes06 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance

    DOJ · Others

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Program. This opportunity will support legal assistance to eligible tribal members, federally recognized Indian tribes, and tribal justice systems that provide legal aid and indigent defense services to tribal communities located in rural and remote

    OpenUp to $600,000
  21. Closes13 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act Program

    DOJ · Others

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act Program. This opportunity supports state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, including prosecution agencies, in investigating and prosecuting criminal offenses involving civil rights that occurred no later than December 31,1979, and result

    OpenUp to $645,000
  22. Closes20 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Strengthening State and Local Operations to Reduce Crime and Recidivism

    DOJ · States, Others, Counties, +3 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Strengthening State and Local Operations to Reduce Crime and Recidivism. This opportunity will support state, local, and tribal government efforts to reduce wasteful spending and inefficient uses of funds across justice system operations and redirect that fund

    OpenUp to $4 million
  23. Closes20 NOV

    BJA FY 2026 Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners – Formula Grants Program

    DOJ · States

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY2026 Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Formula Grants Program. This opportunity provides formula grant funding to enhance the capabilities of state, local, and tribal governments to support residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to adult and juvenile popul

    OpenUp to $2.2 million
  24. Closes01 DEC

    OJP FY 2026 Integrity in American Elections Grant Program

    DOJ · Tribes, Special districts, Counties, +3 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJP FY 2026 Integrity in American Elections Grant Program. This opportunity will support state and local prosecutors and other justice professionals to prevent, investigate, and prosecute criminal offenses pertaining to voter roll integrity and voter fraud, including illegal voting and registration crime

    OpenUp to $5 million
  25. Closes02 DEC

    BJA FY 2026 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program

    DOJ · Counties, Cities and towns, Nonprofits, +5 more

    This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program. This opportunity supports efforts to improve reporting, transportation, forensic processing, and identification of missing persons (MP) and unidentified human remains (UHR) cases, including those involving migrants as authorized by Public

    OpenUp to $1 million

Where BJA grant money went in 2025

Awards from October 2024 to September 2025, from USAspending.gov.

Largest programs
Program (Assistance Listing)Awarded
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program 16.738$289 million
Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative 16.812$28 million
Body Worn Camera Policy and Implementation 16.835$16 million
Justice Reinvestment Initiative 16.827$3 million
Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program 16.754$3 million
PREA Program: Strategic Support for PREA Implementation 16.735$2.3 million
Capital Case Litigation Initiative 16.746$1.9 million
Largest nonprofit recipients
RecipientAwarded
The Council of State Governments Ltd.$12 million
The Cna Corporation$5.4 million
The Institute for Intergovernmental Research, INC.$5.1 million
Impact Justice$2.9 million
Center for Effective Public Policy, Incorporated$2.5 million
International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Training, INC. the$2.1 million
National Legal Aid and Defender Association$2 million
The National Judicial College$1.9 million

Questions

When is the next BJA grant deadline?

The next deadline is October 21, 2026 for BJA FY 2026 Invited to Apply- Medicaid and Corrections Program.

How do I apply for a BJA grant?

Register your organization in SAM.gov to get a Unique Entity ID, create a Grants.gov account, then find the opportunity and submit before its deadline. Some agencies finish the application in their own system, such as JustGrants, eRA Commons or Research.gov.

Can individuals get BJA grants?

Rarely. Federal grants go mostly to organizations: nonprofits, local governments, tribes, schools, colleges and, in research programs, small businesses. Help for individuals usually comes through state and local agencies.

Do I have to pay to apply for a grant?

No. Real grant programs never charge to apply or to receive an award. Anyone asking for a fee before you get grant money is running a scam.

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  3. NIH grants
  4. SBIR grants
  5. NSF grants
  6. USDA grants
  7. SAMHSA grants
  8. USDA Rural Development grants