Project Safe Neighborhoods (16.609)
Project Safe Neighborhoods (Assistance Listing 16.609) is run by the Office of Justice Programs, part of the Department of Justice. It awarded $84.5 million in 454 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $186,134 per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.
The typical award was $155,071. Half of the 454 awards fell between $104,808 and $246,195, and they ranged from $5,614 to $2.0 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$84.5 million
- Grant awards454
- Typical award$155,071
- Awarded in FY 2025-$2.4 million
- Size rank856 of 1,823
- Type of assistanceProject grants
Key findings
- It is the 856th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- The 20 largest recipients received 59% of the money.
- Awards went to recipients in 52 states and territories.
What the program funds
Program goal(s) name: Reduce violent crime throughout coordinated and targeted solutions. Program goal(s) description: Identify and address the most pressing violent crime problems in a community by developing comprehensive solutions, building partnerships, and employing a data-driven problem-solving approach. Program objective(s) name: Utilize data and existing infrastructure to prevent and intervene in violent crime and increase prosecutions of violent criminal organizations. Program objective(s) description: Create and implement sustainable collaborations and comprehensive violent crime reduction strategies to address the most pressing violent crime problems in a community; Use intelligence and data to identify violent crime drivers and individuals at risk of violence victimization or perpetration to intervene, prevent, and improve outcomes; Support the implementation of specific crime reduction activities and resource requirements in collaboration with all relevant partners and stakeholders; Leverage existing task force structures and increase prosecutions of violent criminal organizations.
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
Prior awards have ranged from approximately $200,000 to $500,000.
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Project Safe Neighborhoods (16.609) awarded $84.5 million across 454 grant awards, an average of $186,134 per award.
Who usually wins
State and local governments received 75% of the money, nonprofits 23% and colleges and universities 1.6%.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| State and local governments | 353 | $63.2 million | 75% |
| Nonprofits | 89 | $19.4 million | 23% |
| Colleges and universities | 9 | $1.3 million | 1.6% |
| Other | 3 | $596,268 | 0.7% |
By state
30 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.
| State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| California | 22 | $9.2 million |
| Texas | 20 | $6.7 million |
| New York | 27 | $6.2 million |
| Virginia | 12 | $3.8 million |
| Florida | 15 | $3.5 million |
| North Carolina | 19 | $3.4 million |
| Illinois | 15 | $3.2 million |
| Georgia | 15 | $2.7 million |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | $2.6 million |
| Ohio | 10 | $2.5 million |
| Tennessee | 15 | $2.5 million |
| Arizona | 7 | $2.4 million |
| Michigan | 7 | $2.0 million |
| Louisiana | 17 | $2.0 million |
| Missouri | 10 | $1.9 million |
| Washington | 10 | $1.8 million |
| Indiana | 10 | $1.7 million |
| Wisconsin | 10 | $1.5 million |
| Oklahoma | 15 | $1.5 million |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $1.5 million |
| Maryland | 5 | $1.5 million |
| South Carolina | 5 | $1.5 million |
| Alabama | 15 | $1.4 million |
| Colorado | 5 | $1.3 million |
| Arkansas | 10 | $1.3 million |
| Kentucky | 10 | $1.2 million |
| Minnesota | 5 | $1.2 million |
| Iowa | 10 | $979,709 |
| Nevada | 5 | $976,824 |
| Oregon | 4 | $804,102 |
| West Virginia | 10 | $780,883 |
| Utah | 5 | $780,189 |
| Kansas | 5 | $777,603 |
| Mississippi | 10 | $768,183 |
| New Mexico | 4 | $684,428 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | $585,770 |
| Nebraska | 5 | $584,975 |
| Connecticut | 5 | $582,144 |
| Alaska | 5 | $477,660 |
| South Dakota | 5 | $430,208 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | $419,011 |
| Maine | 5 | $414,496 |
| Montana | 5 | $406,937 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | $391,427 |
| North Dakota | 5 | $374,753 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $308,075 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 5 | $265,342 |
| Delaware | 5 | $263,451 |
| Idaho | 2 | $222,805 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $168,943 |
| Guam | 2 | $114,073 |
| Wyoming | 2 | $109,947 |