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O-BJA-2026-172778: DOJ FY 2026 Assisting Neighborhoods and Governments with Enforcement of Laws (ANGEL) Grant Program

Closed Closed October 20, 2026 Opportunity O-BJA-2026-172778 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: OJP FY 2026 Special Attorneys Program Round 11 (O-BJA-2026-172812). Status: Closes November 17, 2026 (10 days left). It is in our archive of Bureau of Justice Assistance notices from 2026.

• Award ceiling$500,000
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to state and local governments and tribes.

State agencies with law enforcement responsibilities; Other Units of Local Government: For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, other units of local government include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state.

More grants for state and local governments, tribes.

Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

This initiative seeks to protect American citizens from being victimized, harmed, or killed by criminal illegal aliens, and ensure that no additional families endure the trauma and life altering devastation experienced by our Angel Families. This funding opportunity will support state, local, and tribal government’s activities to identify, disrupt, and prevent violent crime committed by criminal illegal aliens and enhance public safety through coordinated, intelligence-led law enforcement operations. Awards from this program should be used to support significant participation in and support of Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) activities and other DOJ efforts to combat gangs, cartels, and other violent crime. Within the context described above, examples of permissible activities include but are not limited to the following: • Sworn and Non-Sworn Law Enforcement Personnel—Funding can be used to hire or rehire full-time sworn career law enforcement officers/deputies and civilian/non-sworn personnel as outlined below: o Hire new full-time officers/deputies and full-time civilian/non-sworn personnel, including by filling existing officer/deputy vacancies that are no longer funded in your agency’s budget. o Rehire full-time officers/deputies and full-time civilian/non-sworn personnel who have been laid off by any jurisdiction as a result of state, local, or Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) budget reductions. o Rehire full-time officers/deputies and full-time civilian/non-sworn personnel who are (at the time of application) currently scheduled to be laid off by your jurisdiction on a specific future date as a result of state, local, or BIA budget reductions. • Non-Law Enforcement Personnel—Funding can be used for the hiring, retention, and training of critical personnel for the purposes cited above. Examples of personnel could include but need not be limited to the following: forensic, investigative, analytical; prosecution and legal support. Funding may not be used for co-responders, interpreters, or translators. Funding will support salaries for up to three years of eligible positions to be expended within a five-year period of performance to accommodate time needed for recruitment and hiring.

Category: Law, Justice and Legal Services.

We found no grant awards under Assistance Listing 16.076 in fiscal 2021 to 2025, which usually means the program is new or very small.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, O-BJA-2026-172812, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.