OVW Fiscal Year 2026 Local Law Enforcement Grants for Enforcement of Cybercrimes Program
Opportunity number: O-OVW-2026-172629
Program owner: U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women
Summary: Federal grants for states, Indian Tribes, and units of local government to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals.
The Office on Violence Against Women supports governmental efforts to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals. Covered conduct includes computer-facilitated harassment, threats, stalking, extortion, coercion, fear, intimidation, and nonconsensual distribution of an adult's intimate images.
Estimated program-wide funding is $6,750,000 for approximately 10 awards ranging from $350,000 to $750,000. Cost sharing is not required.
Who is eligible?
Applicant types: State governments; county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; federally recognized Native American tribal governments
Eligible applicants are limited to states, Indian Tribes, and units of local government. Police departments, sheriff's offices, prosecutors, corrections agencies, and other criminal-justice agencies are not separately identified as direct applicants in the supplied source.
What can the funding be used for?
Efforts to prevent, enforce, and prosecute cybercrimes against individuals, including offenses involving use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear, or intimidate an individual, or to distribute an adult's intimate images without consent.
How to apply
Electronic submission is required. Applicants should use the Grants.gov opportunity package and review the full announcement for all submission requirements and any separate or later-stage deadline. The supplied source establishes a Grants.gov response/closing date of September 1, 2026 but does not independently establish whether that is the final deadline stated in the full NOFO.
Program contact
Office on Violence Against Women
[email protected]
202-307-6026
Official sources
- Grants.gov Public API checked August 31, 2026
Grant details can change. Confirm all requirements on the official source before applying.