Crime Prevention
Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Awards
This program funds a provider of nationwide scenario-based training for officers and first responders to prepare for school active shooter situations.
School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP)
This competitive grant program provides funding to improve security at schools, including funding for metal detectors, lighting, locks, and other deterrent measures, training for law enforcement officers, and technology for expedited notification of law enforcement officers.
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research and Evaluation
This funding opportunity seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects that advance understanding of OJP Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiatives (CVIPI). The CVIPI program provides resources to support evidence-informed violence intervention and prevention programs in communities across the United States.
Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence and Mass Shootings
This competitive grant program supports research and program evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and reduce intentional, interpersonal firearm violence and mass shootings in the United States in two categories: (1) research or evaluation of Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws, and (2) research on the sources of the firearm used in the commission of a crime and the relationship of those sources to shootings and gun-related violence.
Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program, 2023–2026
This program provides national estimates on the total number of firearm purchase applications received and denied pursuant to the Brady Act and relevant state laws.
National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)
1) NCHIP ($70,000,000)- This program aims to improve the nation’s safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information; and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and non-criminal justice background check systems. 2) NCHIP SF BSCA ($40,000,000) – This program furthers the DOJ’s mission to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal-history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based… criminal history background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) – Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Pub. L. 117-159). 3) NARIP ($25,000,000)- This program provides grants to assist states, state court systems and tribal governments in updating the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) with certain mental health, protection and restraining order, domestic violence conviction, and other criminal history record information which may disqualify individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms. BJS coordinates its work on the NICS program with the efforts of the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) to ensure that funded state and state court system programs are complementary and consistent with the overall goal of improving the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of state and national criminal records.
National Criminal History Improvement Program Supplemental Funding
This competitive grant program provides funds to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal-history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history background checks.
National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Training and Technical Assistance Program
This program funds technical assistance to support state, territorial and tribal jurisdictions in insuring that their systems to implement the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP), the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP), and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act conform to FBI standards.
Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS)
This competitive grant program provides funding to federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. Purpose areas may allow for eligible school safety expenses including the hiring of School Resource Officers and the development of, or to enhance existing, school-involved Youth Healing to Wellness Courts.
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. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting and assisting state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions in improving the criminal justice system and enhancing efforts to prevent, investigate, and respond to crime.
Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation
This competitive grant program provides funding to prevent and reduce crime and enhance the criminal justice system through innovative approaches that accelerate justice by identifying, defining, and responding to emerging or chronic crime problems and systemic issues.
National Public Safety Partnership—Capacity Building Grant Limited Competition Grant Solicitation
This competitive grant program provides state/local prosecutors and local law enforcement agencies who have participated in the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) with funding to secure necessary resources identified in the PSP program assessments that will help reduce crime and increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.
Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative
This funding opportunity supports law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime and improve police-community relations through a range of cross-sector enforcement, prevention, and intervention strategies that leverage active collaboration with communities through sustained partnerships and engagement. Whereas the program was previously open to a range of eligible applicants, FY2025 funding is only made available for local governments and tribes.
Smart Policing Initiative Grant Program
This competitive grant program provides funding to support innovative and evidence-based policing practices, more effective information sharing, and multiagency collaboration under the Smart Policing Initiative Program.
Smart Prosecution – Innovative Prosecution Solutions
This competitive grant program provides state, local, and tribal prosecutors with funding for evidence-based prosecution strategies to reduce crime and increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.
Rural and Small Department Violent Crime Reduction Initiative (RVCRI)
This competitive grant program provides funding to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices to implement violent crime reduction strategies, improve investigations and services to victims, and enhance collaboration between local stakeholders.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) – research grants for preventing violence and violence related injury
The NCIPC funds research into gun violence prevention strategies. Funded research is detailed at this website.
STOP School Violence Program
This competitive grant program 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.
Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative (CGIC)
This competitive grant program provides funds to areas experiencing increases in gun-related violent crime to help them work with ATF to utilize intelligence, technology, and community engagement to swiftly identify unlawfully used firearms and their sources and effectively prosecute perpetrators engaged in violent crime.
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN)
PSN formula grants are awarded to U.S. Attorney’s Offices to fund collaborative teams to address violent crime problems through community engagement, prevention and intervention, focused enforcement, and accountability. Teams can include federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement as well as community organizations and representatives.
Byrne Discretionary Grants Program
This program provides Congressionally-earmarked funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and to combat juvenile delinquency.
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – Local Awards
The JAG Program is the leading source of federal criminal justice grant funding to state and local jurisdictions, providing providing formula-based funding for a broad range of program areas.
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – State Awards
The JAG Program is the leading source of federal criminal justice grant funding for state and local jurisdictions, providing formula-based funding for a broad range of program areas.