Assistance Listing 16.738
Department of Justice · Office of Justice Programs
Assistance Listing 16.738, “Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program,” is a federal program administered by Department of Justice. It provides grant and cooperative agreement assistance. GrantsJunction currently tracks 1 open, 0 forecasted and 142 closed opportunities under this listing. The agency reported $298M in obligations for fiscal year 2025.
Program goal(s) name: Improve the functioning of the criminal justice system to prevent and reduce crime. Program goal(s) description: Provide critical funding to state, local, and tribal governments under nine statutorily required program areas to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and reduce crime. Program objective(s) name: Improve the administration of the criminal justice system. Program objective(s) description: Provide funding to states and eligible units of local government with additional personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical assistance, and information systems; and assist units of local government with their criminal justice needs.
As published in the SAM.gov Assistance Listing.
Program-level eligibility from SAM.gov. Each funding notice sets its own requirements.
Range and average of financial assistance (from the listing): JAG formula grants: Allocations for each fiscal year formula grants can be found at https://bja.ojp.gov/program/jag/overview. JAG project grants: Varies by NOFO, see https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities.
Source: SAM.gov Assistance Listing 16.738. Hatched bars are agency estimates. These totals do not indicate approval rates.16.738 is the Assistance Listing Number for “Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.” Assistance Listing Numbers (formerly CFDA numbers) identify federal assistance programs; individual grant opportunities reference the listing they are funded under.
The SAM.gov listing names these applicant types: Other. Each funding notice under the program sets its own eligibility, so check the specific opportunity.
The agency reported $297,894,408 in obligations for FY2025 in the SAM.gov Assistance Listing. These are program-wide totals reported by the agency, not a prediction of future awards.