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BJA FY 2026 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program—Local Formula

Award ceiling
up to $4,964,030
Closes
Oct 9, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-04

Awards up to $4,964,030 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), special district governments, closing Oct 9, 2026.

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BJA FY 2026 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program—Local Formula awards up to $4,964,030 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional…

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)
$4,964,030
Award floor
$0
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Oct 9, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Aug 25, 2026
Status
Open
Eligible entities
City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · Special district governments
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
hiring additional personnel · purchase equipment · supplies · contractual support · training · technical assistance · information systems for criminal justice or civil proceedings
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
$4,964,030

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Special district governments
Source field: entity types
industry
Source field: industries
use
contractual support, hiring additional personnel, information systems for criminal justice or civil proceedings, purchase equipment, supplies, technical assistance, training
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Other units of local government

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

When does it close?

Oct 9, 202632 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

7 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
hiring additional personnelpurchase equipmentsuppliescontractual supporttrainingtechnical assistanceinformation systems for criminal justice or civil proceedings

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 records
Stated 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

4 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $4,964,030 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
Oct 9, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Special district governments.
What can the funding be used for?
hiring additional personnel, purchase equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical assistance, information systems for criminal justice or civil proceedings, as classified by the source.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-04
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-03

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.