Federal grants to Orleans Parish District Attorney
Orleans Parish District Attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana received $13.0 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 13 awards. Its largest program was National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, with $5.8 million. It had no new grant money in fiscal 2025.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$13.0 million
- Awards13
- Awarded in FY 2025$0
- Largest award$2.5 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 2 | $2.3 million |
| FY 2022 | 6 | $4.4 million |
| FY 2023 | 4 | $4.8 million |
| FY 2024 | 3 | $1.5 million |
| FY 2025 | 0 | $0 |
Programs that fund Orleans Parish District Attorney
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative | 3 | $5.8 million |
| Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program | 2 | $2.0 million |
| Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program | 1 | $1.3 million |
| Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative | 1 | $1.0 million |
| Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence | 1 | $819,923 |
| Services for Trafficking Victims | 1 | $750,000 |
| Capital Case Litigation Initiative | 2 | $586,542 |
| Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Education, Investigation and Prosecution Program | 1 | $380,590 |
| Smart Prosecution Initiative | 1 | $320,629 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Justice | 13 | $13.0 million |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| This grant seeks funding to continue to improve the saki model in new orleans. Although new orleans has made strides in policy and practice, the orleans parish district attorneys office (OPDA) needs further support to continue and build upon the current program and vertical prosecution unit (VPU). M | National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative | September 25, 2023 | $2.5 million |
| Sexual assault kit initiative vertical prosecution unit and comprehensive saki approach | National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative | October 22, 2020 | $1.9 million |
| This grant seeks funding to continue to improve the saki model in new orleans. Although new orleans has made strides in policy and practice, the orleans parish district attorneys office (OPDA) needs further support to continue and build upon the current program and vertical prosecution unit (VPU). M | National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative | September 25, 2023 | $1.4 million |
| The orleans parish district attorney (OPDA)’s office is submitting this proposal to create a multidisciplinary coordinating body by consolidating existing anti-opioid committees into a singular body - the metropolitan overdose data to action program (MODTAP). The service area of this project is the | Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program | September 29, 2022 | $1.3 million |
| The new orleans emmett till project, undoing jim crow cold cases initiative (UJCCCI), has been working to identify, research and catalog cold case civil rights homicides and is now applying for a continuation grant to augment its existing project with the following elements. In addition to continuin | Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program | September 23, 2024 | $1.0 million |
| Undoing jim crowÂs cold cases initiative | Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program | November 4, 2021 | $1.0 million |
| Orleans parish collaborative innovations in re-entry | Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative | November 10, 2021 | $1.0 million |
| Postconviction testing of dna evidence in orleans parish | Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence | October 28, 2021 | $819,923 |
| The greater new orleans human trafficking task force (gnohttf) will expand operations and partnerships, implement a sustainability plan, and assist the office of justice (OJP) in building capacity in the field. The lead law enforcement applicant, orleans parish district attorney (OPDA), and the lead | Services for Trafficking Victims | September 29, 2022 | $750,000 |
| By their very nature, hate crimes strike at the heart of our democratic values and threaten to undermine the very tenets of our society. By helping our new orleans communities protect themselves against these cowardly acts of violence, the orleans parish district attorneys office continues to make p | Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Education, Investigation and Prosecution Program | September 28, 2023 | $380,590 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Orleans Parish District Attorney get?
$13.0 million in 13 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Orleans Parish District Attorney the most?
The Department of Justice, with $13.0 million in 13 awards.
What is Orleans Parish District Attorney's largest federal grant?
$2.5 million under National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, with its first action in the period on September 25, 2023. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Orleans Parish District Attorney?
Its largest are National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program and Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program.
Other grant recipients in New Orleans
- Louisiana Department of Health
- The Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund
- Regional Transit Authority
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
- National Network of Public Health Institutes Inc
- Xavier University of Louisiana
- Unity of Greater New Orleans, Inc.
- City of New Orleans
Largest federal grant recipients in Louisiana · Federal grants in Louisiana