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BJA FY 2026 The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities

Award ceiling: up to $150,000
Closes: Oct 6, 2026
Last verified: 2026-09-04

Awards up to $150,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, independent school districts, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, special district governments, state governments, closing Oct 6, 2026.

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City or township governmentsCounty governmentsIndependent school districtsNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educationNonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educationOthers (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Private institutions of higher educationPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationSpecial district governmentsState governmentsLaw, Justice & Legal Services

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BJA FY 2026 The Kevin and Avonte Program: Reducing Injury and Death of Missing Individuals with Dementia and Developmental Disabilities awards up to $150,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, independent school districts, native american tribal governments…

Record fields

Program pool (total): Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): $150,000
Award floor: $0
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Oct 6, 2026
Deadline type: Fixed date
Opens: Aug 17, 2026
Status: Closing soon
Eligible entities: City or township governments · County governments · Independent school districts · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · Private institutions of higher education · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education · Special district governments · State governments
Geography: Not stated
Matching funds: Not confirmed
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Application effort: Not confirmed
Use of funds: implement locative technologies that track missing individuals · develop programs to prevent wandering · operate programs to prevent wandering · increase safety for vulnerable individuals · facilitate rescues
Currency: USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle

Not stated

Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive

$150,000

Who can apply?

level

federal

Derived from the source that published this record

entity

City or township governments, County governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Special district governments

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, State governments

Source field: entity types

industry

Law, Justice & Legal Services

Source field: industries

use

develop programs to prevent wandering, facilitate rescues, implement locative technologies that track missing individuals, increase safety for vulnerable individuals, operate programs to prevent wandering

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.; Health care agencies: For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, this includes state, local, or tribal government-operated health departments, hospitals, and medical centers as well as non-profit health clinics, behavioral health providers, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) working with individuals with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or developmental disabilities, such as autism.

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Oct 6, 202629 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

5 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.

implement locative technologies that track missing individualsdevelop programs to prevent wanderingoperate programs to prevent wanderingincrease safety for vulnerable individualsfacilitate rescues

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

What comparable notices state

29 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Law, Justice & Legal Services, 29 of 30 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

25th percentile$650,000
Median$1,460,000
75th percentile$3,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

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How much can one applicant receive?: Up to $150,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?: Oct 6, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?: City or township governments, County governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Special district governments, State governments.
What can the funding be used for?: implement locative technologies that track missing individuals, develop programs to prevent wandering, operate programs to prevent wandering, increase safety for vulnerable individuals, facilitate rescues, as classified by the source.

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Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-09-04

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-09-03

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