2025 Federal Law Enforcement Grants
Grants are beginning to be released!
Although a bit behind schedule, federal law enforcement grants are beginning to be released, particularly from the Office of Community Policing and the Office of Violence Against Women. We have begun updating the links to available funding below.
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2025 Federal Law Enforcement Grants
| Grant Name | Description | Grants.Gov Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| FY25 Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Support for Law Enforcement Agencies | The Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement program seeks to promote safe outcomes during police encounters with persons in crisis through relevant training. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Curriculum Integration for Law Enforcement Academies and State-Level Training Commissions | The Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement program seeks to promote safe outcomes during police encounters with persons in crisis through relevant training. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Implementation Projects | LEMHWA funds are used to improve the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services for law enforcement officers through the implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, and other promising practices for wellness programs. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 Community Policing Development Microgrants | Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 Community Policing Development: Supporting Agencies Seeking Accreditation | The Enhancing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities funding opportunity is for the support and enhancement of law enforcement accreditation bodies to facilitate the ability of agencies to become accredited. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 Community Policing Development (CPD) Accreditation: Enhancing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities | The Enhancing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities funding opportunity is for the support and enhancement of law enforcement accreditation bodies to facilitate the ability of agencies to become accredited. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 Collaborative Reform Initiative: Organizational Assessment and Critical Response | Collaborative Reform Initiative (CRI) program funds are used to highlight best practices of law enforcement agencies and the many ways they are protecting Americans; enhance officer safety and wellness; build agencies’ capacity for self-improvement; and promote community policing practices nationwide. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 Community Policing Development: Law Enforcement Products and Resources | FY25 CPD Law Enforcement Products and Resources program funding supports the development of products and resources on law enforcement topics, specifically designed for national distribution that offer creative ideas to advance crime fighting, community engagement, problem solving, or organizational changes in support of community policing. | 06/24/2025 |
| FY25 COPS Blue Alert Program | The primary objectives of the cooperative agreement to be funded under this notice of funding opportunity are to support states participating in the National Blue Alert Network and to raise awareness, educate, and inform non-Blue Alert states of the Blue Alert Network (e.g., production of an educational video, factsheets, newsletters, presentations, etc.), provide monthly summaries of Blue Alert activations throughout the country, including detailed accounts of heroism involving Blue Alert events, and research, gather, and compile accurate and timely information, from credible sources, about all reported incidents where on duty law enforcement throughout the United States, territories, and tribal lands are shot in the line of duty. | 6/24/2025 |
| COPS Office Anti-Methamphetamine Program | The Fiscal Year 2025 COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program (CAMP) is a competitive award program designed to advance public safety by providing funds directly to state law enforcement agencies in states with high seizures of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and laboratory dump seizures for the purpose of locating or investigating illicit activities such as precursor diversion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers. | 06/25/2025 |
| COPS Office Anti-Heroin Task Force Program | The Fiscal Year 2025 COPS Anti-Heroin Task Force (AHTF) program is a competitive award program designed to advance public safety by providing funds directly to state law enforcement agencies in states with high per capita rates of primary treatment admissions for the purpose of locating or investigating illicit activities through statewide collaboration relating to the distribution of heroin, fentanyl, or carfentanil, or to the unlawful distribution of prescription opioids. | 06/25/2025 |
| COPS Office School Violence Prevention Program | The Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (STOP School Violence Act of 2018) gave the COPS Office authority to provide awards directly to States, units of local government, or Indian tribes to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the jurisdiction of the grantee through evidence-based school safety programs and technology. | 06/18/2025 |
| COPS Hiring Program | The Fiscal Year 2025 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is a competitive award program designed to provide funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. | 06/25/2023 |
| BJA FY25 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions | This funding opportunity seeks to support wrongful conviction review (WCR) entities and conviction integrity units (CIU). WCR entities represent and review individual cases of post-conviction claims of innocence. CIUs enhance criminal justice system integrity. The goal of this program is to enhance the ability of WCR entities and CIUs and their criminal justice and victims’ services partners to better identify, assess, and manage post-conviction claims of innocence while preventing future error and bring justice for victims. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy | This funding opportunity seeks to support law enforcement agencies that have an intellectual property (IP) enforcement task force or plan to create one. The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program assists state, local, and tribal jurisdictions in preventing and reducing IP theft and related crime as well as supporting law enforcement in investigating and prosecuting IP crimes and reducing violent crime associated with IP cases and investigations. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative | This funding opportunity seeks to address firearm-related crime through the establishment and expansion of Crime Gun Intelligence Centers (CGICs). This initiative is a partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to assist local law enforcement in utilizing intelligence, technology, and community engagement to swiftly identify crime guns and their sources and effectively prosecute perpetrators. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program | This funding opportunity seeks to assist states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of veterans treatment courts (VTC) including service coordination, fidelity to the VTC model, and recovery support services. VTCs effectively integrate evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment; mental health disorder (MHD) treatment; treatment for co-occurring disorders, including those with a history of violence; and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of their military service. VTCs integrate mandatory drug testing, incentives and sanctions, and transitional services in judicially supervised criminal court settings that have jurisdiction over veterans with treatment needs in order to reduce recidivism, increase access to treatment and recovery support, and prevent overdose. Please see the Eligible Applicants section for the eligibility criteria. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program | This funding opportunity seeks to support efforts by state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution agencies and their partners in conducting outreach, educating practitioners and the public, enhancing victim reporting tools, and investigating and prosecuting hate crimes committed on the basis of a victim’s perceived or actual race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance | This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for eight national initiatives to support law enforcement and criminal justice stakeholders in key criminal justice areas. Delivered TTA will be site-based, program-specific TTA and broader TTA for the field. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Project Safe Neighborhoods- Formula Grants Program | The Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. The PSN program aims to create safer communities by developing data-driven and community-based strategies to reduce violent crime, particularly gun violenc | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Justice Counts State Partnership Grants and Training and Technical Implementation Assistance Program | This opportunity seeks applications for funding to support Justice Counts adoption and implementation. Justice Counts is part of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative strategy to help states achieve fairer, effective, and efficient justice systems. Funding will support states to adopt and utilize metrics through state agency and/or state-local partnerships. It will also support a training and technical assistance provider to help state grantees and more broadly spur jurisdictional adoption and the use of system metrics across the nation. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 National Initiatives: Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Program | This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for three national initiatives supporting justice and mental health programs. Delivered TTA will be site-based, program-specific TTA and broader TTA for the field. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 National Initiatives: Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Program | This funding opportunity seeks to enhance corrections and community supervision systems and community-based providers’ capacity to address the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support needs of people during incarceration and upon reentry. The goals of this program are to support the implementation or expansion of evidence-based and trauma-informed SUD treatment programming, as well as to promote the implementation of deflection as part of the treatment and recovery safety net, which helps persons in treatment stay in treatment, and prevents further and unnecessary contact with the criminal justice system. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 STOP School Violence Program | This funding opportunity aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence. The goal is to equip K–12 students, teachers, and staff with tools to recognize, respond to, and prevent acts of violence. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program | This funding opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program | This funding opportunity seeks to support organizations and tribal governments providing comprehensive reentry services to individuals who have been incarcerated. Prior to their release from incarceration, individuals will be screened, assessed, and identified for program participation. Following release from incarceration, participants will receive intensive case management services and will be connected to evidence-based programming designed to assist with a safe and seamless transition to their communities. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Program | This funding opportunity seeks to provide training and technical assistance to grantees and practitioners to support the use of state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs to detect and prevent the diversion and misuse of pharmaceutically controlled substances such as opioids and other prescription drugs. | 3/18/2025 |
| BJA FY25 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based | With this funding opportunity, the Office of Justice Programs seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime through comprehensive, evidence-informed violence intervention programs focused on those at highest risk. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence using community violence intervention strategies based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use, Site-Based Program | This funding opportunity seeks to support state, territorial, local, and tribal governments to reduce overdose deaths and the impact of illicit substance use and misuse on individuals and communities. Through this program, state, territorial, local, and tribal governments can increase access to prevention services, enhance harm reduction initiatives, expand treatment and recovery services, and develop and increase other resources and supports in the community and justice system. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Adult Treatment Court Program | This funding opportunity seeks to assist states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, and enhance the operations of adult treatment courts including management and service coordination for treatment court participants, fidelity to the adult treatment court model, and recovery support services. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Virtual Reality De-escalation Site-Based Initiative | This funding opportunity seeks to assist law enforcement agencies in adopting virtual reality technology for training purposes. The program supports innovative tools that allow for multi-participant engagement and can be integrated into training focused on improving law enforcement responses to individuals in crisis. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation | This funding opportunity seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes. The Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to accomplish this by promoting collaborations with the field to identify, define, and respond to emerging or chronic crime problems or justice system challenges. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 DOJ Jails and Justice Support Center | This funding opportunity seeks a training and technical assistance provider to operate the Department of Justice Jails and Justice Support Center (JJSC), which assists state and local leaders in creating and sustaining safe and effective environments for people who visit, live, and work in jails. The JJSC provides the nation’s jails with information, resources, training, and technical assistance focused on core topics such as screening and assessment, medical and behavioral health, use of force, leadership and culture, human capital, operations, programming, and reentry. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Smart Reentry: Housing Demonstration Program | This funding opportunity seeks to support state, local, and tribal governments to improve reentry and reduce recidivism by expanding and/or increasing access to housing for people who are currently or formerly involved in the criminal justice system. Prior to release from incarceration, people will be screened, assessed, and identified for program participation. The program will help jurisdictions assess their reentry systems, identify strengths and gaps, and then build capacity for improved housing options for adults released from prison or jail. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program | This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations between law enforcement and behavioral health agencies to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people who qualify with behavioral health needs. The goal is to implement deflection and diversion programs at first contact, such as crisis response and intervention teams, co-responders and other collaborative model approaches. The program focuses on improving safety and well-being for people with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Eligible entities can prepare, create, or expand collaborative projects. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Staff-Led Restrictive Housing Reform Program | This opportunity seeks to fund a training and technical assistance provider to help correctional agencies implement meaningful policies, trainings, and practice changes to reduce the use of restrictive housing while maintaining institutional safety. The award recipient will select six sites to work with during the program period and also support the field at large by responding to requests for ad hoc training and subject matter expertise and disseminating best practices and lessons learned on this topic. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program | This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). The goal is to improve safety and well-being for adults with MHDs (including people with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder) or MHSUDs who come into contact with the criminal justice system. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Incubator Initiative | This funding opportunity seeks organizations to serve as financial intermediaries to community-based reentry programs (subawardees) and provide support to them via an incubator model in order to increase capability and capacity within the subawardees’ organizations. | Paused via Executive Order |
| BJA FY25 Advancing Data in Corrections Initiative | This funding opportunity seeks a training and technical assistance provider to bolster state correctional agencies’ capacity to use data to inform policy and operational decisionmaking through a combination of direct assistance, resources, and training. This initiative will provide both dedicated, agency-specific assistance via a cohort of embedded data analysts in up to ten correctional agencies for one year, as well as in-depth training and other resources for corrections analysts nationwide. | 3/12/2025 |
| BJA FY25 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Program | This funding opportunity seeks to support training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to support grantees funded through the FY22–23 and FY24 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) Formula opportunities as well as future Byrne SCIP Formula opportunities. | 3/12/2025 |
| BJA FY25 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Training Curriculum for New Corrections Staff | This opportunity will identify a cooperative agreement recipient to develop and deliver educational courses to provide new correctional staff an understanding of their requirements under the PREA Standards about how to prevent, detect, and respond to allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment of people in confinement settings. This program will provide a high quality base training for agencies to customize from which portions (e.g., modules) can be used for training refreshers as needed. | 2/24/2025 |
| BJA FY25 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program | The goal of this program is to improve clinical stabilization pretrial, during confinement, and support continuity of care and recovery during the transition to the community through clinical and other evidence-based activities or services for individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. In addition, this funding seeks to minimize the potential for experiencing crisis and improve recovery outcomes for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders who are currently involved with the criminal or juvenile justice systems or reentering the community from these systems. | Paused via Executive Order |
| FY25 U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation | This Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. CTAS provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety. Many of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) existing tribal government-specific programs are included in and available through this single coordinated funding opportunity. | 03/25/2025 |
| OJJDP FY25 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence | This funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to help children and their families who are exposed to violence (CEV) build resilience, restore their safety, heal their social and emotional wounds, and prevent future violence and delinquency. Funding can be used to: (1) develop and/or enhance direct support services for children exposed to violence to reduce the adverse impact of violence on youth, families, and communities, and to help family-serving organizations better recognize and help families at risk for exposure to violence; and (2) support multidisciplinary or coalition-building efforts to enhance communities’ responses to CEV. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers Program | This funding opportunity seeks applications for funding for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers program. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting and strengthening four regional children’s advocacy centers (CACs) that will deliver coordinated training and technical assistance within and across the regions to CACs, members of multidisciplinary teams, programs, and organizations to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect and the provision of children’s advocacy center services to child victims and their families. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Family Treatment Court Training and Technical Assistance | This funding opportunity seeks to support training and technical assistance to state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments that will build their capacity to develop, maintain, and enhance family treatment courts to more effectively address the needs of parents, children, and families affected by a substance use and/or co-occurring mental health disorder. Additionally, the funding aims to enhance access to evidence-based prevention and treatment services as communities develop and implement coordinated substance use intervention programs. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Programs | This funding opportunity seeks to enhance and expand mentoring services for youth who are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. The program’s goal is to improve outcomes for at-risk and high-risk youth, and reduce negative outcomes through mentoring. The program objectives are to increase the number of at-risk or high-risk youth receiving mentoring services; increase the number of screened and well-trained mentors; and develop and implement program design enhancements that align with research and evidence on effective mentoring approaches. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative | This funding opportunity seeks to support states’ implementation of innovative and/or research-based, data-informed policies to improve juvenile justice system outcomes and sustainable strategies for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into effective juvenile justice prevention and intervention programs. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Resource Center | This funding opportunity seeks to build on OJJDP’s history and leadership in mentoring by providing the mentoring field and practitioners with comprehensive resources and training materials on the OJJDP National Mentoring Resource Center website; convening an expert Research Board that reviews the evidence base for specific program models, populations, and outcomes; and providing training and technical assistance for OJJDP grantees to support youth mentoring programs in implementing safe, quality, and effective practices. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success | This funding opportunity seeks to assist jurisdictions in planning and assessing promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of care for youth at risk of becoming involved or are already involved in the juvenile justice system. The long-term goal of this effort is to support sustainable, research-based, and data-informed recidivism-reduction policies, practices, and programming, and the strategic reinvestment of cost savings realized through accompanying reforms into effective prevention and intervention programs for our nation’s youth | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Multistate Mentoring Programs Initiative | This funding opportunity seeks to support mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Enhancing Youth Defense | This funding opportunity seeks to implement youth defense system efforts that strengthen and improve the representation of youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This program supports organizations providing public defense services through a combination of direct grants and national training and technical assistance to implement sustainable system improvements that result in improved youth outcomes, reduced recidivism, safer communities, cost savings, and increased public confidence in the juvenile justice system. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program | This funding opportunity seeks to build the capacity of states, state and local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to implement new and innovative approaches to enhance existing juvenile drug treatment courts (JDTC) and improve outcomes for youth with substance use disorder or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, including those with histories of trauma. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children | This funding opportunity seeks to support states, units of local government, Tribal communities, and community-based organizations to implement, develop, or expand programs within detention or correctional facilities to respond to the needs of incarcerated parents (juvenile or adult) who have children younger than age 18 to prevent violent crime, reduce recidivism, and provide support for minor children. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Enhancing Youth Defense Training and Technical Assistance | This funding opportunity seeks to improve the quality of representation and breadth of services available from defense practitioners for justice-involved youth through specialized training, tools, resources, and intensive technical assistance. | Paused via Executive Order |
| OJJDP FY25 Enhancing Youth Defense Training and Technical Assistance | The OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grant Program) funds transitional housing and support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance as a result of a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Eligible applicants are Tribal, state, and local governments and organizations with a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. | 03/1/2025 |
| OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program | The Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program (Abuse in Later Life Program) (Assistance Listing # 16.528) supports a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, abandonment, economic abuse, or willful harm committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older (hereinafter “older victims”). Applicants eligible to apply for this program are States; Units of local government; Tribal governments or Tribal organizations; Population specific organizations; Victim service providers; and State, Tribal, or territorial domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions. | 03/04/2025 |
| SMART FY25 Maintenance and Operation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website | General Purpose of the Funding: The Office of Justice Programs has supported NSOPW since 2005. In FY 2008, the SMART Office assumed management responsibility for this program as NSOPW is closely aligned with SMART’s mission, and jurisdiction participation (including states, the District of Columbia, principal U.S. territories and certain federally recognized Indian Tribes) is required by SORNA. Since 2008, Congress has specifically appropriated funds for NSOPW. At present, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the territories of American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and 151 Tribes participate in NSOPW. NSOPW operates similarly to a search engine and uses web services to access registered sex offender information directly from individual jurisdictions. NSOPW links to state, territory, the District of Columbia, and Tribal public sex offender registries and allows users to conduct nationwide searches for registered sex offenders with one query rather than searching jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Since its inception, NSOPW has been heavily queried by the public and has had over 735 million searches and over 2 billion page views. In 2016, the SMART Office launched the NSOPW mobile application, allowing users to search from any mobile device. Available on Android and iOS, users have used the application to conduct over 11 million searches. In addition to the maintenance and support of NSOPW, this award supports the maintenance and enhancement of the SORNA Exchange Portal, a secure information-sharing system for jurisdictions as required under SORNA. This internet-based system provides a venue to streamline communication and coordination among jurisdictions’ sex offender registry officials, as well as federal agencies. The cooperative agreement also supports the Tribe and Territory Sex Offender Registry System (TTSORS) and the Sex Offender Registry Tool (SORT). TTSORS is a web-based sex offender registry system that is free of charge to U.S territories and Indian Tribes that have elected to implement SORNA. TTSORS functions as both the administrative registry system and the public sex offender registry website for jurisdictions, which allows for participation in NSOPW. TTSORS also streamlines data sharing for Tribes participating in DOJ’s Tribal Access Program (TAP) by automatically sending registry information to the FBI’s National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) and ensuring data synchronization between TTSORS and NSOR. In partnership with TAP, this cooperative agreement supports the development and enhancement of the TTSORS-NSOR interconnection tool, enabling over 100 Tribal sex offender registry databases to directly connect to NSOR and significantly increasing the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of Tribal data shared with law enforcement nationwide. SORT is a similar tool that may be used by registration agencies in states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia, and provides a free customizable administrative registry system and public sex offender registry website. It is designed to enhance information-sharing capabilities and maximize efficiency and cost effectiveness of registry system setup and ongoing maintenance. The award also supports training for each of the technology tools and related resource development for jurisdictions, as well as the monitoring, maintenance, and updating of the NSOPW mobile applications for Android and iOS and NSOPW’s social media page. Applicants should refer to Application Contents, Submission Requirements, and Deadlines: Budget Detail Form for information on allowable and unallowable costs that may inform the development of their project design. | 02/24/2025 |
| Fiscal Year 2025 Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation Revolving Loan Fund Program | The objective of the Safeguarding Tomorrow RLF program is to capitalize or recapitalize entity-established revolving loan funds that will provide low-interest loans to local governments most in need of financing assistance to complete hazard mitigation projects and activities. The program aims to reduce risks from natural hazards for homeowners, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and communities in order to decrease the loss of life and property, the cost of insurance, and federal disaster payments. FEMA’s primary priority for the Safeguarding Tomorrow RLF program is to capitalize entity revolving loan funds that will provide local governments most in need of financing assistance with low-interest loans to finance hazard mitigation projects in their entirety, or the non-federal cost share requirement for other FEMA HMA or Stafford Act mitigation grants. Other priorities include collaborating with participating entities to understand programmatic capacity and capability needs; supporting community-driven decision-making; promoting equity in the distribution of loan funds; and supporting the delivery of innovative and transformational hazard mitigation projects addressing the priorities established in 42 U.S.C. § 5135(d)(3). | 9/30/2025 |
| Nonprofit Security Grant Program National Security Supplemental | The objective of the Safeguarding Tomorrow RLF program is to capitalize or recapitalize entity-established revolving loan funds that will provide low-interest loans to local governments most in need of financing assistance to complete hazard mitigation projects and activities. The program aims to reduce risks from natural hazards for homeowners, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and communities in order to decrease the loss of life and property, the cost of insurance, and federal disaster payments. FEMA’s primary priority for the Safeguarding Tomorrow RLF program is to capitalize entity revolving loan funds that will provide local governments most in need of financing assistance with low-interest loans to finance hazard mitigation projects in their entirety, or the non-federal cost share requirement for other FEMA HMA or Stafford Act mitigation grants. Other priorities include collaborating with participating entities to understand programmatic capacity and capability needs; supporting community-driven decision-making; promoting equity in the distribution of loan funds; and supporting the delivery of innovative and transformational hazard mitigation projects addressing the priorities established in 42 U.S.C. § 5135(d)(3). | 1/24/2025 |
| OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program | The OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grant Program) funds transitional housing and support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance as a result of a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Eligible applicants are Tribal, state, and local governments and organizations with a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. | 6/9/2025 |
| OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program | The Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (Rural Program) enhances the safety of rural victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking by supporting projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas. This program supports cooperative efforts among law enforcement officers, prosecutors, victim service providers, and other related parties to investigate and prosecute sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; treatment, advocacy, counseling, legal assistance, or other victim services for victims in rural communities; or programs addressing sexual assault. Eligible entities applicants are states and territories, Indian Tribes, local governments, and nonprofit (public or private) entities, including Tribal nonprofit organizations. | 07/08/2025 |
| OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program | The Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program (Children and Youth Program) supports comprehensive, community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth (ages 0-24) impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking. | 06/30/2025 |
| OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Hiring and Training Program | The Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program (Children and Youth Program) supports comprehensive, community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth (ages 0-24) impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking. | 06/24/2025 |
| OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program | The Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program (ICJR Program) assists state, local, and Tribal governments, and courts to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law, and to seek safety and autonomy for victims. | 06/16/2025 |
| OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Sexual Assault Services Formula Program | The Sexual Assault Services Formula Program (SAS Formula Program) provides grant dollars to states and territories to assist them in supporting rape crisis centers and other nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, or tribal programs that provide direct intervention and related assistance to victims of sexual assault, without regard to age. | 06/10/2025 |