BJA FY 2026 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA
- Award ceiling
- up to $750,000
- Closes
- Oct 29, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-09-22
Awards up to $750,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), native american tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), special district governments, state governments, closing Oct 29, 2026.
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BJA FY 2026 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA awards up to $750,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), native american tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), others…
- Program pool (total)
- Not confirmedTotal across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $750,000
- Award floor
- Not confirmed
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Oct 29, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Sep 21, 2026
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · Special district governments · State governments
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- investigative and prosecutorial activities · crime and forensic analysis
- 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.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitFor the purposes of this NOFO, eligible applicants are state and local prosecuting agencies or law enforcement agencies with an engaged prosecutorial entity. For the purposes of this NOFO, “other units of local government” include towns,…
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
What can the money be used for?
2 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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
44 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Law, Justice & Legal Services, 44 of 44 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$737,500
- Median$1,500,000
- 75th percentile$3,625,000
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 $750,000 per recipient.
- When is the application deadline?
- Oct 29, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), Special district governments, State governments.
- What can the funding be used for?
- investigative and prosecutorial activities, crime and forensic analysis, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
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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.