Law enforcement agencies across the country receive money from the federal government every year through grant programs. They use these funds for a wide range of policing activities, such as hiring new officers and purchasing body-worn cameras.

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Program descriptions are paraphrased from state and federal government departmental websites. These descriptions do not represent the positions of LDF or its Thurgood Marshall Institute.

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Before receiving federal grant funds, law enforcement agencies must verify that they will comply with civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

Local law enforcement agencies can receive funding from a variety of federal departments, including the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Transportation. Each department provides funding via programs defined as Assistance Listings (formerly the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, or CFDA). Each program is identified by a five-digit number. Learn more about Assistance Listings at SAM.gov.

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The data and information included on this site are gathered using application programming interfaces (APIs) or are obtained from publicly available sources. The APIs retrieve data from the websites of government-operated agencies and publish it on this database unaltered. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) cannot verify the accuracy of any reported data. The data and information provided herein are solely intended to be educational tools and do not constitute the provision of legal advice, nor do they establish any attorney-client relationship with LDF or TMI.

All federal grants data presented on this site are provided via the USASpending API. The description of each grant links directly to the grant detail page on USASpending.gov. For this database, we have chosen to monitor a subset of funding sources (identified by CFDA numbers) that commonly fund law enforcement agencies, in order to reduce the amount of manual review needed and allow us to present data for more cities and counties. As a result, the grant totals shown for a city or county likely do not represent the entirety of federal grant funding to that jurisdiction’s law enforcement agencies.

Grant data are updated on an ad hoc basis, generally once per quarter as our resources permit. The list of federal grant programs was last published on Jan 10, 2023.