Public Safety · Active
Missing Children's Assistance · DOJ · High-volume · mid band
Missing Children's Assistance (CFDA 16.543) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$3M
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- DOJ
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Missing Children's Assistance ranks #225 of 504, #11 of 23 within DOJ, and #16 of 38 among Public Safety programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 16.543 is an active Public Safety program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $500K–$3M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $43.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Public Safety
Missing Children's Assistance · midpack ceiling on a busy book (#293/502)
Missing Children's Assistance lands midpack on published ceilings (42nd percentile; rank #293 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.
Missing Children's Assistance vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$3,000,000 Top 58% higher than 42% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2025-12-01
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 16.543 · DOJ VOL-STEADY · #225/504
VOL-STEADY · MID-PACK · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- MID-PACK #225/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $500K–$3M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 16.543
VOL-STEADY · #225/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestMissing Children's… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($500,000 to $3.0 million) with a hot opportunity book (20 indexed rows) under CFDA 16.543. Missing Children's Assistance is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 0%.
Assistance Listing text · DOJ
Grants to develop and implement programs for missing children including AMBER Alert and NCMEC.
Civic applicant mix · government + nonprofit doors
Missing Children's Assistance combines government/tribal and nonprofit applicant types (2 doors). The listing is a civic funding corridor spanning public and nonprofit operators.
Predominantly cooperative agreements (CA) · CFDA 16.543
88% of the 102 indexed listings under CFDA 16.543 are cooperative agreements (CA), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Missing Children's Assistance typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $548.4 million across 84 listings (avg $6.5 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 513 across 92 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 16.543, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 16.543
None of the 102 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 16.543 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $150,000 to $43.0 million (287×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 97% of listings carry the Law, Justice and Legal Services (LJL) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 102 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.0 million (102 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Law, Justice and Legal Services (LJL)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
DOJ · administering agency
U.S. Department of Justice
Law enforcement, crime prevention, victim services, and criminal justice system grants.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 16.543
OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children On-Line Child Protection System (ICACCOPS) – Invited to Apply
OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program – Invited To Apply
OJJDP FY25 AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program – Invited to Apply
OJJDP FY25 Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program – Invited to Apply
OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program Support – Invited to Apply
OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children Data System Enhancements
OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force National Training Program
OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Invited to Apply
OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing & Exploited Children – IAA USSS Invited to Apply
OJJDP FY24 Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces – Invited to Apply
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 16.543: 20 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) administers 23 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Reintegration of Ex-Offenders (17.270). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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