This page highlights current funding opportunities and provides links to additional grant providers and resources where you can explore and learn more about available funding.

2026 Grants

Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative

The FY 2026 Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative supports rural law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices implementing strategies to prevent, respond to, and reduce violent crime. Funding may support personnel, tactics, training, equipment, technology, data analytics, and other approaches connected to a specific violent-crime challenge. Approximately 10 awards of up to $250,000 are anticipated, with no matching funds required.

The program is administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).

Where MILO Fits:
MILO simulation training systems may fit the program’s provisions for increased police training, updated technology, tools, firearms, and equipment. MILO can help rural agencies prepare officers for violent encounters through realistic training focused on threat assessment, communication, tactical decision-making, firearms proficiency, and appropriate response options. Applicants must connect the requested system to a documented violent-crime challenge and explain how the training supports measurable improvements in their reduction strategy.

 

The Grants.gov application is due October 30, 2026, and the full JustGrants application is due November 6, 2026.
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Additional Funding Resources

Private Foundation Funding

Private foundations offer funding opportunities to support innovative public safety, mental health, and community-based initiatives. These grants can help agencies pilot new programs or expand existing training efforts.

Deadlines and eligibility vary by organization.

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Federal Government Grant Programs

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that will have an unparalleled impact on the grant community.

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United States Department of Justice

The Department of Justice offers funding opportunities for research, supporting law enforcement activities in state and local jurisdictions, providing training and technical assistance, and implementing programs to improve the criminal justice system.

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Community (non-government) foundations listed by state:

http://www.tgci.com/funding/community.asp

Community Foundations are non-profit, tax-exempt, publicly supported grant-making organizations. The foundations are public charities, since they develop broad support from many unrelated donors with a wide range of charitable interests in a specific community.

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Technology Grant

http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=65

The COPS Office has distributed over $ 8 billion to advance community policing since its creation in 1994. This funding supports a wide range of activities. COPS funding helps local law enforcement agencies hire, equip, and train new community policing professionals. COPS funding helps redeploy existing officers into their communities and studies ways to maximize the impact they have on the people who live there. COPS funds a wide variety of strategies to advance community policing through innovative techniques and technologies.

Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/byrne.html

The Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant Program (Byrne Formula Grant Program) is a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities. Grants may be used to provide personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance, and information systems for more widespread apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, detention, and rehabilitation of offenders who violate such state and local laws.