Executive Office Of The State Of Kansas

The Executive Office of the State of Kansas Governor's Grants Program Division, doing business as Governor's Grants Program, is a U.S. state government entity that serves as a federal grant recipient and pass-through administrator for the State of Kansas, distributing federal funds to sub-recipients across criminal justice, victim services, family violence prevention, and substance abuse treatment programs. The organization operates exclusively as a prime recipient of federal grants, with no federal contracting activity and no subcontract awards in the source data.

Governor's Grants Program holds 200 prime federal grant awards across 17 customer agencies, with concentrated activity in the Department of Justice ecosystem. The top five customer agencies account for 80% of awards: the Bureau of Justice Assistance (59 awards, the largest single customer), the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (38 awards), the Office on Violence Against Women (34 awards), the Administration for Children and Families (15 awards), and the Victims of Crime program (14 awards). The combined potential value across all 201 awards in the source is $247 million, with $614.9 million in obligated dollars.

Recent grant activity spans criminal history record improvement, domestic violence and sexual assault victim services, substance abuse treatment for incarcerated individuals, forensic laboratory enhancement, and crisis intervention court proceedings. Representative awards include a $4.25 million cooperative agreement from the Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554, effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029) funding criminal history database improvements and cloud migration through sub-awards to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Kansas Judicial Branch; a $1.552 million formula grant from the Administration for Children and Families under Family Violence Prevention and Services (CFDA 93.671, October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027) distributed as pass-through funding to local and regional victim service providers; and a $156,184 formula grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners program (CFDA 16.593, October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2029) supporting substance use disorder treatment at three Kansas Department of Corrections facilities. Governor's Grants Program also administers the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program and the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) for Kansas, coordinating multi-agency criminal justice initiatives aligned with the Kansas Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.

Award activity declined significantly from 2022 to 2026 (13 awards in 2022 to 1 award in 2026 year-to-date), a trend that may reflect portfolio maturation or recompete cycling. Seventeen awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing renewal and recompete opportunity. Governor's Grants Program is a child entity within the State of Kansas Office of Accounts and Reports and operates as the administrative hub for federal grant distribution within Kansas state government, with no direct contracting footprint or vendor relationships.