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

Crisis Response Training Program

The FY 2026 Crisis Response Training Program offers two funding categories. Category 1 supports crisis response and intervention training for sworn law enforcement personnel, including police, sheriff’s office, field probation and parole, and campus police officers. Applicants may request funding for crisis response training, VR training systems that allow multiple participants to train simultaneously and integrate with existing programs, or both. Category 2 supports training for facility-based personnel in jails, prisons, and correctional agencies.

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

Where MILO Fits:
MILO VR’s multi-trainee capability fits Category 1’s specific VR provision.  MILO’s instructor-led scenarios can give officers opportunities to practice communication, de-escalation, assessment, and decision-making as part of a broader crisis response training program.

The Grants.gov application is due October 5, 2026, and the full JustGrants application is due October 13, 2026.
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Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program — Local Formula

The FY 2026 Local JAG program provides formula funding to eligible local governments for criminal justice needs. Funding can support equipment, supplies, training, personnel, and other eligible costs. Relevant program areas include law enforcement, corrections, and community corrections, and mental health programs, including crisis intervention teams.

Eligible jurisdictions must be listed in BJA’s FY 2026 local allocations to apply directly. Award amounts vary by jurisdiction, and no local match is required.

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

Where MILO Fits:
JAG funding can support eligible equipment and training projects. Agencies may consider MILO’s virtual training simulators and MILO Live shooting range equipment as part of a project that meets their jurisdiction’s law enforcement, corrections, or crisis intervention needs.

The Grants.gov application is due October 9, 2026, and the full JustGrants application is due October 16, 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.