Public Safety · Active
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) · DOJ · High-volume · mega band
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) (CFDA 16.738) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $50K–$10M
- 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, Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) ranks #232 of 504, #18 of 23 within DOJ, and #5 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 16.738 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.
- $50K–$10M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $20.1 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Public Safety
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#132/502)
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) clears 370 of 502 published ceilings (74th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$10,000,000 Top 26% higher than 74% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-07-06
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 16.738 · DOJ VOL-STEADY · #232/504
VOL-STEADY · MID-PACK · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- MID-PACK #232/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $50K–$10M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 16.738
VOL-STEADY · #232/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestJustice Assistance… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($50,000 to $10.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · DOJ
Formula grants for law enforcement, prosecution, prevention, corrections, drug treatment, and technology improvement.
Multi-door applicant board · 2 SAM.gov types
CFDA 16.738 prints 2 distinct applicant types (State or Local Government, Tribal Organization). Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) is a broad multi-door Assistance Listing, filter fit before reading NOFO volume as demand.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 16.738
62% of the 142 indexed listings under CFDA 16.738 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) typically uses to move money. 5% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $2.1 billion across 92 listings (avg $23.1 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 7,147 across 113 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 16.738, 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 16.738
None of the 142 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 16.738 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $16,000 to $75.0 million (4688×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. Listings span 8 funding-activity codes; the plurality is Law, Justice and Legal Services (LJL, 67%).
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 142 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $973,000 (136 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 16.738
BJA FY 2026 Invited to Apply – Pennington County, South Dakota Public Safety Support for the 250th Anniversary Celebration at Mount Rushmore
BJA FY25 Invited to Apply – Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Reallocation Funds Program
BJA FY25 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – Local Formula
BJA FY25 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Formula Program
OJJDP FY25 Family-Based Alternative Justice
BJA FY25 Invited to Apply—Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA)
BJA FY25 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – State Formula
BJA FY25 Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative
BJA FY25 Byrne State Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Program
BJA FY25 Invited to Apply – National Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 16.738: 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: One-Stop Career Center Grants (17.207). 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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| Sources | the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov |