Federal grant programs / Department of Justice

Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (16.571)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$22.4 million
• Grant awards4
• Typical award$5.8 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$12.0 million
• Size rank1275 of 1824
• Type of assistanceDirect payments with unrestricted use

Key findings

• It is the 1275th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• Awards went to recipients in 2 states and territories.

What the program funds

Program goal(s) name: Death, disability, and education benefits for eligible public safety officers Program goal(s) description: Provide death and education benefits to survivors of fallen law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders, and disability benefits to officers catastrophically injured in the line of duty. Program objective(s) name: Process claims and provide death, disability, and education benefits for eligible public safety officers and survivors. Program objective(s) description: To provide death benefits to the eligible survivors of public safety officers whose deaths are the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the line of duty; To provide disability benefits to public safety officers who have been permanently and totally disabled as the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the line of duty.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

The amount of the PSOB benefit is $437,503.00 for eligible deaths and disabilities occurring on or after October 1, 2023.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to nonprofits.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.