Grant Funding for Crime Laboratories and Researchers

Congress has appropriated funding to meet the goals of the President's DNA Initiative. The funds are made available periodically through solicitations from the Initiative's Partners and announced on this page.

Select a program to the left under Grant Funding to learn more about programs to reduce the convicted offender and forensic evidence backlogs, solve cold cases using DNA, develop and implement training and perform research and development. 

Available Funding

There currently are no open solicitations under the Initiative. 

There currently are no DNA-related open funding opportunities. You may sign-up for an email alert from Grants.gov to be notified of future funding opportunities. Choose "Department of Justice" in the Select Agency box to receive notification of Initiative funding opportunities.

Lists of Awards

Select a program below to view lists of awards made by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the President's DNA Initiative.

• Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Funding
  Note: In 2007, NIJ combined the Forensic DNA Capacity Enhancement and Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction programs into the Forensic DNA Backlog Redcuction Program.
  • DNA Capacity Enhancement Program, 2004 – 2006
  • Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program, 2004 – 2006
    
• Convicted Offender DNA Backlog Reduction Program (In-House Analysis and Review)
  
• DNA Research and Development (from NIJ Web site), 2006 | 2005 | 2004 
• Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program, 2007
  
• Solving Cold Cases with DNA Evidence, 2005 and 2007 
  
• DNA Missing Persons (from NIJ Web site), 2005 | 2004