Grant Opportunity Roundup
USDOJ COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES GRANTS
The Fiscal Year 2025 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is a competitive award program designed to provide funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.
Anticipated outcomes of the CHP program awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of the agency to engage in community policing activities.
The application is due in grants.gov on June 25, 2025, and on July 1, 2025, in JUSTGRANTS. The maximum federal share per officer for a three year period is $125,000. A 25% match is required from the applicant.
More information can be found here.
FY25 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants Program
The FY25 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants program provides funding to local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to implement novel or innovative projects that work to solve problems in the agency or community, to advance crime fighting, community engagement, problem solving, or organizational changes in support of community policing.
Under this funding opportunity, the COPS Office will fund projects in the following subcategories:
Uplifting the Image of the Law Enforcement Profession,
Violent Crime Prevention,
Officer Recruitment,
Hiring and Retention,
Immigration and Border Security,
Opioid and Drug Market Interruption,
Homelessness and Squatting,
Proposed, locally identified community issues.
Awardees can receive up to $125,000 in funding. This grant program does not have a local match requirement. Grants.gov applications are due on June 24, 2025, and JUSTGRANTS applications are due on June 31, 2025.
More information is available here.
This grant enables the purchasing or leasing of low-emission buses, purchasing or leasing of zero-emission buses, acquiring low or no emissions buses with a leased power source, purchasing, leasing, or rehabilitating buses regardless of propulsion type or emissions, purchasing, leasing, rehabilitating, or constructing bus-related facilities and equipment, and other related activities.
In general, the maximum Federal share is 80%. There are two exceptions:
The Federal share is 85% for transit buses that are compliant with the Clean Air Act or are accessible to people with disabilities.
The Federal share is 90% for equipment and components of facilities related to low- or zero-emission buses or making the facility accessible to people with disabilities. Applicants must itemize the cost of specific, discrete equipment or facility components that perform these functions to be eligible for this higher Federal share.
Applications are due on July 14, 2025. More information can be found here.
NONPROFIT CORNER
The Lawrence Foundation is a private family foundation focused on making grants to support environmental, human services, disaster relief, and other causes. The organization makes both program and operating grants and does not have any geographical restrictions on its grants. Nonprofit organizations that qualify for public charity status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or other similar organizations are eligible for grants from The Lawrence Foundation.
Typical awards range from $5,000 to $10,000. Applications are due twice a year, with the next deadline on October 31.
More information can be found here.