The Department of Justice offers funding opportunities to support law enforcement and public safety activities in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions; to assist victims of crime; to provide training and technical assistance; to conduct research; and to implement programs that improve the criminal, civil, and juvenile justice systems.
ADMINISTRATIVE RELIEF FOR DOJ GRANT RECIPIENTS AND APPLICANTS IMPACTED BY THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
The Department of Justice recognizes the many challenges that DOJ award recipients are experiencing during the COVID-19 national emergency. On March 19, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued OMB memorandum M-20-17, “Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) due to Loss of Operations,” affording Federal awarding agencies additional flexibilities to provide administrative relief to funding recipients affected by the loss of operational capacity and increased costs due to the COVID-19 national emergency. Relief for various administrative, financial management, and audit requirements under 2 CFR Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards can be found below for DOJ's three grant making agencies. In addition, these links provide other relevant information and answers to frequently asked questions by recipients and sub-recipients impacted by the COVID-19 national emergency and may be updated as new information becomes available:
Please keep in mind that in accordance with M-20-17, exceptions to 2 CFR Part 200 are time-limited and the flexibilities afforded to Federal awarding agencies will be reassessed by OMB within 90 days of the issuance of its memo
SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES AFTER MASS VIOLENCE INCIDENTS
Communities that have been affected by mass violence incidents may be able to apply for assistance through several DOJ grants. Learn more
NEW GRANTS AND PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS NOW AVAILABLE!
The Justice Grants System (JustGrants) is now available for all award management activities. Award recipients with the Department of Justice (DOJ) can login to JustGrants or visit the informational website for further resources and support. Additionally, the Department of the Treasury's Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP) is now available for enrolled DOJ award recipients to request funds. For more information on how to request funds in ASAP, please reference this user guide.
Use the table from the Program Plan Initiative to explore upcoming initiatives, funding amounts, and application deadlines.
OTHER DOJ GRANT AGENCY SITES
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation's state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. The COPS Office awards grants to hire community policing professionals, develop and test innovative policing strategies, and provide training and technical assistance to community members, local government leaders, and all levels of law enforcement.
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) provides innovative leadership to federal, state, local, and tribal justice systems, by disseminating state-of-the art knowledge and practices across America, and providing grants for the implementation of these crime fighting strategies. Because most of the responsibility for crime control and prevention falls to law enforcement officers in states, cities, and neighborhoods, the federal government can be effective in these areas only to the extent that it can enter into partnerships with these officers. Therefore, OJP does not directly carry out law enforcement and justice activities. Instead, OJP works in partnership with the justice community to identify the most pressing crime-related challenges confronting the justice system and to provide information, training, coordination, and innovative strategies and approaches for addressing these challenges. OJP's goals are to strengthen partnerships with state, local and tribal stakeholders; ensure integrity of, and respect for, science — including a focus on evidence-based, “smart on crime” approaches in criminal and juvenile justice; and administer OJP's grant awards process in a fair, accessible and transparent fashion — and, as good stewards of federal funds, manage the grants system in a manner that avoids waste, fraud and abuse. Visit the OJP bureaus and program offices listed below:
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), supported by OJP, offers a range of services and resources to meet the information needs of anyone interested in criminal and juvenile justice, victim assistance, and public safety.
The mission of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is to provide federal leadership in developing the national capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. OVW administers grant programs to help provide victims with the protection and services they need to pursue safe and healthy lives, while simultaneously enabling communities to hold offenders accountable for their violence. Funding is provided to local, state and tribal governments; courts; non-profit organizations; community-based organizations; secondary schools; institutions of higher education; and state and tribal coalitions. These entities work toward developing more effective responses to violence against women through activities that include direct services, crisis intervention, transitional housing, legal assistance to victims, court improvement, and training for law enforcement and courts. They also work with specific populations such as elder victims, persons with disabilities, college students, teens, and culturally and linguistically specific populations.
On October 15, 2020, the Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS Office), the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and the Office on Violence against Women (OVW) transitioned to the Department of Justice's Justice Grants System (JustGrants) for all grants management activities and to the Department of Treasury's Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP) system for grants payments. Learn more about these new systems on the Justice Grants Website.
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