Kaufman C Courthouse

Kaufman C Courthouse, Kaufman County Division, is a U.S. local government entity based in Kaufman, Texas, that receives federal grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient to fund criminal justice prosecutions, emergency management, public health, and community digitization projects. The entity operates as a parent organization with County of Kaufman as a named subsidiary and does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; all federal engagement is grant-based, with 82% of awards flowing through sub-grants from state pass-through entities rather than direct prime awards.

Recent grant activity shows concentration in law-enforcement and emergency-response capacity building. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance funds the entity directly; a cooperative agreement awarded June 1, 2026, totaling $711,415 (CFDA 16.076, Law Enforcement Support for Combatting Criminal Aliens, Drug, and Human Trafficking) runs through May 31, 2029 and funds Kaufman County to hire or assign prosecutors to serve as special assistant United States attorneys coordinating fraud, alien crime, drug-trafficking, and human-trafficking investigations with federal authorities. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services account for five awards each across the last five years, covering disaster debris removal, road infrastructure repair, child protective services reimbursement, and emergency preparedness equipment (body-worn camera systems, three-dimensional crime scene scanners, and public-works emergency response trailers). A sub-grant from the Texas Office of the Governor dated November 3, 2025, funds a family-violence prosecutor and investigator project; another from the Texas Division of Emergency Management (October 6, 2025) covers a 3D crime-scene-scanning system for the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office. A June 6, 2025 digitization sub-grant supports the Kaufman County Library and Spellman Museum partnership with the University of North Texas Libraries to digitize thirty-thousand pages of historical Kaufman and Forney newspapers (1880–1992) for public online access.

Activity trajectory shows growth from two awards in 2022 to seven in 2025, with three awards to date in 2026. The top customer agencies by award count (Department of Justice, FEMA, CDC) represent 88% of the award portfolio. All five distinct customer agencies listed are federal funders; the entity receives no contract revenue and sits on no federal contract vehicles, making it a pure grant recipient in the federal footprint. The June 2026 DOJ cooperative agreement represents the largest single prime award in the source data.