Closed · O-OJJDP-2025-172474 · CFDA 16.543 · Discretionary

OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Invited to Apply

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

up to $43.0M
Award range
Closed
Status
October 1, 2025
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Invited to Apply is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention that offered Up to $42,976,147 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 638 other opportunities from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.

up to $43.0M
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
16.543
CFDA program

Recently closed NOFO

This listing closed on October 1, 2025. Watch CFDA 16.543 (Missing Children's Assistance) for the next funding cycle. Historical award band was Up to $42,976,147.

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

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed October 1, 2025

Posted Sep 25 Closes Oct 1

Est. Total Funding

$42,976,147

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

This NOFO seeks to support the activities of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) program. The purpose of the National Resource Center and Clearinghouse—operated by NCMEC, a nonprofit organization founded in 1984—is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation, find missing children, and provide technical assistance/training to victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · O-OJJDP-2025-172474

Grants.gov marks OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Ex… 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: Cooperative Agreement. 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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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 16.543

Missing Children's Assistance

U.S. Department of Justice

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Agency Contact

Email Lou.Ann.Holland@usdoj.gov

What to do next

OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Ex… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 16.543 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Missing Children's Assistance indexes 0 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention lists 638 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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