BJA FY 2025/2026 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-BJA-2026-172654
- Agency
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Bureau of Justice Assistance
Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $1,187,963
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
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- 16.609 Project Safe Neighborhoods
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Law, Justice and Legal Services
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- OJP Response Center ojp.responsecenter@usdoj.gov (800) 851-3420
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance is soliciting applications for the FY 2025/2026 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Program, with an extended application deadline of September 10, 2026. The program funds comprehensive violent crime reduction strategies coordinated by the U.S. Attorney's Offices in the 94 federal judicial districts across the 50 states and U.S. territories.
Eligible applicants include state and local units of government, nonprofits, and tribal governments certified as fiscal agents by U.S. Attorneys' Offices. No cost share or matching requirement is stated.
Award amounts and the expected number of awards are not specified in the source. Period of performance extends up to 36 months. The program operates nationwide with coordinated implementation across all federal judicial districts.
PSN brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to address violent crime through targeted enforcement strategies. Priority areas include criminal organizations, dangerous offenders, threats to public safety, transnational criminal organizations, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and violent criminal aliens. The program supports coordinated enforcement, community-based prevention and intervention, gang task force operations, firearm trafficking investigations, and reentry services.
Review procedures include eligibility and responsiveness, merit, programmatic, budget, and risk reviews. The Assistant Attorney General makes final award decisions. Successful applicants must accept awards within 45 days of notification. All records must be retained for three years from the date of the final expenditure report.
The program operates under CFDA 16.609.
Synopsis
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY2025/2026 Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Formula Grant Program. This opportunity provides combined FY 2025 and FY 2026 appropriations to support comprehensive violent crime reduction strategies coordinated by the U.S. Attorney's Offices (USAOs) in the 94 federal judicial districts throughout the 50 states and the U.S. territories. PSN is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officials, prosecutors, community-based partners, and other stakeholders to address violent crime through coordinated enforcement strategies that target criminal organizations, dangerous offenders, and threats to public safety, including those posed by transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), drug trafficking, human trafficking, and violent criminal aliens. This program is a central element of the DOJ's efforts to empower prosecutors and law enforcement to protect their communities from ongoing threats and to implement the core policy objectives of "Operation Take Back America."
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