BJA FY25 Rural Law Enforcement Violent Crime Reduction Initiative
Key Facts
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: April 15, 2026
Close date: May 27, 2026
Opportunity ID: 361906
Opportunity number: O-BJA-2025-172495
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Agency code: USDOJ-OJP-BJA
Award floor: $0
Award ceiling: $400,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Law, Justice and Legal Services
Eligible Applicants
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Others
- Special district governments
- State governments
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:city_or_township_governments
- eligible_applicants:county_governments
- eligible_applicants:native_american_tribal_governments_federally_recognized
- eligible_applicants:others
- eligible_applicants:special_district_governments
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
Description
This funding opportunity seeks to support 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 crime reduction strategy to solve a specific violent crime challenge.