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Opportunities & Awards

Current Funding Opportunities

See below for a list of all currently open OJP funding opportunities, with links to the full text of the solicitation where you can locate information on how to apply. We encourage you to check out the Applicant Resources section of the site for information and training on writing and submitting an application. If you are looking for funding opportunities released in previous years or that closed during the current fiscal year, go to the Past Funding Opportunities page.

  • Open Funding Opportunities: Funding Opportunities are OJP's competitive and formula/block grant funding opportunity announcements.
  • Open Challenges: Challenges are technical, scientific, ideation, and creative competitions where the U.S. government seeks innovative solutions from the public, bringing the best ideas and talent together to solve mission-centric problems.
  • JustGrants Resource Website Application Submission Training Webpage: Contains e-Learning videos, reference guides and other resources to assist application submitters and entity administrators successfully complete an application. (April 14, 2022)

Open Funding Opportunities

Department of Justice

Deadline Grants.gov 3/18/2025 and JustGrants 3/25/2025
FY25 U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation

Bureau of Justice Assistance

Deadline Grants.gov 1/22/2025 and JustGrants 1/29/2025
FY24 Invited to Apply – Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)

Deadline Grants.gov 1/23/2025 and JustGrants 1/30/2025
FY25 Invited to Apply – Administrative Funding Adjustment

Deadline Grants.gov 1/29/2025 and JustGrants 2/3/2025
FY25 Invited to Apply – National Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center

Deadline Grants.gov 2/24/2025 and JustGrants 3/3/2025
FY25 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program
FY25 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Training Curriculum for New Corrections Staff

Deadline Grants.gov 3/4/2025 and JustGrants 3/11/2025
FY25 DOJ Jails and Justice Support Center
FY25 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Incubator Initiative
FY25 Smart Reentry: Housing Demonstration Program
FY25 Staff-Led Restrictive Housing Reform Program

Deadline Grants.gov 3/12/2025 and JustGrants 3/19/2025
FY25 Advancing Data in Corrections Initiative
FY25 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Program
FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program
FY25 Virtual Reality De-escalation Site-Based Initiative

Deadline Grants.gov 3/18/2025 and JustGrants 3/25/2025
FY25 Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training Program
FY25 Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Program

Deadline Grants.gov 3/27/2025 and JustGrants 4/3/2025
FY25 Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Outcomes for Adults in Reentry
FY25 Justice Counts State Partnership Grants and Training and Technical Implementation Assistance Program
FY25 National Initiatives: Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Program
FY25 STOP School Violence Program

Deadline Grants.gov 4/3/2025 and JustGrants 4/10/2025
FY25 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
FY25 Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy
FY25 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
FY25 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program
FY25 Upholding the Rule of Law and Preventing Wrongful Convictions

Deadline Grants.gov 4/7/2025 and JustGrants 4/14/2025
FY25 Adult Treatment Court Program

Deadline Grants.gov 4/8/2025 and JustGrants 4/15/2025
FY25 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based
FY25 National Initiatives: Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance

Deadline Grants.gov 4/10/2025 and JustGrants 4/17/2025
FY25 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation

Deadline Grants.gov 4/17/2025 and JustGrants 4/24/2025
FY25 Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative
FY25 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
FY25 Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program

Bureau of Justice Statistics

  • No open funding opportunities at this time

National Institute of Justice

Deadline Grants.gov 3/04/2025 and JustGrants 6/26/2025
FY25 Research and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence for Criminal Justice Purposes

Deadline Grants.gov 3/20/2025 and JustGrants 4/03/2025
FY25 Research and Evaluation of Policing Practices
FY25 Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics 

Deadline Grants.gov 3/24/2025 and JustGrants 4/07/2025
FY25 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
FY25 Social Science Research and Evaluation on Forensic Science Systems Funding Opportunity

Deadline Grants.gov 3/27/2025 and JustGrants 4/10/2025
FY25 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes
FY25 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research and Evaluation

Deadline Grants.gov 3/31/2025 and JustGrants 4/14/2025
FY25 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Nexus with Firearms and Violence

Deadline Grants.gov 4/01/2025 and JustGrants 4/15/2025
FY25 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories

Deadline Grants.gov 4/02/2025 and JustGrants 4/16/2025
FY25 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes

Deadline Grants.gov 4/03/2025 and JustGrants 4/17/2025
FY25 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women

Deadline Grants.gov 4/15/2025 and JustGrants 4/22/2025
FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship

Deadline Grants.gov 4/15/2025 and JustGrants 4/29/2025
FY25 Research and Evaluation on Corrections

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Deadline Grants.gov 3/12/2025 and JustGrants 3/26/2025
FY25 Regional Children's Advocacy Centers Program

Deadline Grants.gov 3/10/2025 and JustGrants 3/24/2025
FY25 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence

Deadline Grants.gov 3/6/2025 and JustGrants 3/20/2025
FY25 Family Treatment Court Training and Technical Assistance

Deadline Grants.gov 3/5/2025 and JustGrants 3/19/2025
FY25 National Mentoring Programs

Deadline Grants.gov 3/3/2025 and JustGrants 3/17/2025
FY25 Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative
FY25 National Mentoring Resource Center

Deadline Grants.gov 2/24/2025 and JustGrants 3/10/2025
FY25 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success
FY25 Multistate Mentoring Programs Initiative

Deadline Grants.gov 2/5/2025 and JustGrants 2/19/2025
FY25 Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program

Deadline Grants.gov 2/6/2025 and JustGrants 2/19/2025
FY25 Enhancing Youth Defense

Deadline Grants.gov 2/6/2025 and JustGrants 2/20/2025
FY25 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children

Deadline Grants.gov 2/4/2025 and JustGrants 2/18/2025
FY25 Enhancing Youth Defense Training and Technical Assistance

Office for Victims of Crime

Deadline 01/31/2025
Child Victims and Witnesses Support Materials

Deadline Grants.gov 05/09/2025 and JustGrants 06/06/2025
FY25 Invited to Apply Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Formula Program

Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking

Deadline Grants.gov 2/24/2025 and JustGrants 3/10/2025
FY25 SMART Maintenance and Operation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website

Deadline Grants.gov 3/3/2025 and JustGrants 3/17/2025
SMART FY25 Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program

Open Challenges

  • No open challenges at this time
Date Modified: January 22, 2025
Date Created: January 21, 2020