Closed · OJJDP-2020-16930 · CFDA 16.726 · Discretionary

OJJDP FY 20 Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative

Federal grant opportunity posted by Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$500K-$4M
Award range
Closed
Status
April 13, 2020
Close date
41
Expected awards

The verdict

OJJDP FY 20 Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention that offered $500,000 -- $4,000,000 across 41 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 638 other opportunities from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.

$500K-$4M
award range
Closed
application status
41
expected awards
16.726
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

OJJDP FY 20 Mentoring Opportunities for Youth… is closed (last close April 13, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention still indexes 638 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed April 13, 2020

Posted Feb 12 Closes Apr 13

Est. Total Funding

$81,087,535

Expected Awards

41

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) supports a wide range of mentoring initiatives aimed at preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency. This multi-category solicitation provides funding for applicant organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth. There are five categories under which organizations can apply.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · OJJDP-2020-16930

Grants.gov marks OJJDP FY 20 Mentoring Opportunities for Youth… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Law, Justice and Legal Services (LJL). This eligibility-code string dominates the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention book (234 peers, 37% of 639).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

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Agency Contact

For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support.html, or at support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. An applicant that experiences unforeseen Grants.gov technical issues beyond its control that prevent it from submitting its application by the deadline must email the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Response Center (Response Center) at grants@ncjrs.gov within 24 hours after the application deadline to request approval to submit its application after the deadline. Additional information on reporting technical issues appears under “Experiencing Unforeseen Grants.gov Technical Issues” in the How To Apply (Grants.gov) section in the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide. For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the Response Center by telephone at 800–851–3420 or TTY: 301–240–6310 (hearing impaired only) or by email at grants@ncjrs.gov. Response Center hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET on the solicitation close date. General information on applying for OJJDP awards can be found at https://www.ojjdp.gov/funding/funding.html. Answers to frequently asked questions that may assist applicants are posted at https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/media/document/ojjdp-2020-16930-faqs.pdf. A solicitation webinar will be held on March 4, 2020 at 2 p.m. ET. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the solicitation and allow an opportunity for interested applicants to ask questions. Preregistration is required for all participants. Register here: http://ojjdptta.adobeconnect.com/evsqwntldvwj/event/registration.html. After the webinar, you will find the webinar recording uploaded here: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/library/multimedia/list. grants@ncjrs.gov

What to do next

OJJDP FY 20 Mentoring Opportunities for Youth… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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