BJA FY25 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program

Key Facts

Status: Forecasted

Posted date: March 27, 2026

Close date: April 20, 2026

Opportunity ID: 361697

Opportunity number: O-BJA-2025-172491

Opportunity category: Discretionary

Agency name: Bureau of Justice Assistance

Agency code: USDOJ-OJP-BJA

Award floor: $0

Award ceiling: $3,000,000

Cost sharing required: No

Funding Instrument Types
  • Grant
Category of Funding Activity
  • Law, Justice and Legal Services
Eligible Applicants
  • Others
Tools
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
  • agency_code:usdoj_ojp_bja
  • category_of_funding_activity:law_justice_and_legal_services
  • cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
  • eligible_applicants:others
  • funding_instrument_type:grant
  • opportunity_category:discretionary
  • status:forecasted
Description

This NOFO will support state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, prosecution agencies, and their partners in identifying, investigating, prosecuting, and preventing hate crimes. Funding may be used to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or any other form of assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of such crimes and can also be used to address serial violent hate crime offenses by the same person(s).

BJA FY25 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
This NOFO will support state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies, prosecution agencies, and their partners in identifying, investigating, prosecuting, and preventing hate crimes. Funding may be used to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or any other form of assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of such crimes and can also be used to address serial violent hate crime offenses by the same person(s).
[Forecasted] BJA FY25 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Program
Forecasted
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Law, Justice and Legal Services
Grant
Others
2026-03-27