Closed · O-BJS-2025-172527 · CFDA 16.554;16.813 · Discretionary

BJS FY25 Consolidated National Criminal History Improvement Program

Federal grant opportunity posted by Bureau of Justice Statistics, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $2.4M
Award range
Closed
Status
February 24, 2026
Close date
56
Expected awards

The verdict

BJS FY25 Consolidated National Criminal History Improvement Program is a closed discretionary listing from Bureau of Justice Statistics that offered Up to $2,410,714 across 56 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 233 other opportunities from Bureau of Justice Statistics.

up to $2.4M
award range
Closed
application status
56
expected awards
16.554;16.813
CFDA program

Recently closed NOFO

This listing closed on February 24, 2026. CFDA 16.554;16.813 may re-announce under a new opportunity number. Historical award band was Up to $2,410,714.

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

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed February 24, 2026

Posted Jan 15 Closes Feb 24

Est. Total Funding

$135,000,000

Expected Awards

56

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

1) NCHIP ($70,000,000)- This program aims to improve the nation’s safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information; and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and non-criminal justice background check systems. 2) NCHIP SF BSCA ($40,000,000) - This program furthers the DOJ’s mission to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal-history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) – Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Pub. L. 117-159). 3) NARIP ($25,000,000)- This program provides grants to assist states, state court systems and tribal governments in updating the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) with certain mental health, protection and restraining order, domestic violence conviction, and other criminal history record information which may disqualify individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms. BJS coordinates its work on the NICS program with the efforts of the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) to ensure that funded state and state court system programs are complementary and consistent with the overall goal of improving the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of state and national criminal records.

Multi-door applicant board · 3 Grants.gov types

Grants.gov prints 3 distinct applicant types for BJS FY25 Consolidated National Criminal Histo… (State governments; Federally recognized tribal governments; Others (see official listing text)). Filter fit against the official announcement before drafting. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Income Security and Social Services (IS). Only 4 other Bureau of Justice Statistics listings share this exact eligibility-code string (2% of 234).

Code 00
State governments
Code 07
Federally recognized tribal governments
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.

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What to do next

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