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BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program

Award ceiling
up to $3,500,000
Closes
Nov 4, 2026
Last verified
2026-11-05

Awards up to $3,500,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), public and state controlled institutions of higher education, special district governments, state governments, closing Nov 4, 2026.

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BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program awards up to $3,500,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), public and state…

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)
$3,500,000
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Nov 4, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Sep 21, 2026
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
City or township governments · County governments · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education · Special district governments · State governments
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
process, and/or increase the capacity to process, more DNA samples for entry into CODIS · reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis · prevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples
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
$3,500,000

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
City or township governments, County governments, Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Special district governments, State governments
Source field: entity types
industry
Law, Justice & Legal Services
Source field: industries
use
prevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples, process, and/or increase the capacity to process, more DNA samples for entry into CODIS, reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis
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 NOFO, “other units of local government” include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.

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

When does it close?

Nov 4, 2026ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
process, and/or increase the capacity to process, more DNA samples for entry into CODISreduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysisprevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples

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.

How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

What comparable notices state

27 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Law, Justice & Legal Services, 27 of 28 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$700,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 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

5 questionsEvery 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 $3,500,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
Nov 4, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
City or township governments, County governments, Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Special district governments, State governments.
What can the funding be used for?
process, and/or increase the capacity to process, more DNA samples for entry into CODIS, reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis, prevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-11-05
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-22

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.

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GrantTrove. BJA FY 2026 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR)—Formula Grants Program. https://granttrove.com/grants/363889. Record last checked: 2026-11-05. Confirm the current application window and all requirements against the linked source notice.