The Department offers funding opportunities to conduct research, to support law enforcement activities in state and local jurisdictions, to provide training and technical assistance, and to implement programs that improve the criminal justice system.

The Office of Justice Programs offers federal financial assistance to scholars, practitioners, experts, and state and local governments and agencies. Many of the program bureaus and offices award formula grants to state agencies, which, in turn, subgrant funds to units of state and local government. Discretionary grant funds are announced in the Federal Register or through program solicitations that can also be found through bureau and OJP Websites. Funding Opportunities at OJP provides links to application kits, current funding opportunities listed by source, the Grants Management System (GMS), and the GMS Application Procedures Handbook, a step-by-step guide to applying for grants online.

The Office on Violence Against Women administers 12 grant progams to help provide victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking with the protection and services they need to pursue safe and healthy lives and enable communities to hold offenders accountable for their violence.

The Community Oriented Policing Services Office (COPS) offers grants to help law enforcement agencies to hire more community policing officers, to acquire new technologies and equipment, to hire civilians for administrative tasks, and to promote innovative approaches to solving crime. Current funding opportunities.

The Department of Justice Response Center provides assistance and answers inquiries from the public, law enforcement agencies, institutions, and grantees about grants and programs, funding opportunities, and grant-management related questions. It provides application kits and assistance for grants available from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and from the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) – which includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). Person to person assistance is available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST) Monday – Friday. Messages may be left after hours and calls will be returned the next business day. A 24-hour fax-on-demand service is also available.