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U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs

Project Safe Neighborhoods

Federal program · program number 16.609 (the federal Assistance Listing number)

Key facts

Open now
None right now
Type of help
Project grant
Typical award
Prior awards have ranged from approximately $200,000 to $500,000.

What it pays for

Goal: Reduce violent crime throughout coordinated and targeted solutions. 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. Utilize data and existing infrastructure to prevent and intervene in violent crime and increase prosecutions of violent criminal organizations. 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.

How applications are judged

In each year's official notice

Match

None required (federal program listing).

Tennessee groups that got this money through Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration

This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. In Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration passes it on: watch that agency for applications, not the federal agency. 25 pass-through grants on file. Largest shown:

Tennessee pass-through grant winners
Past winnerWhereThroughAmountFiscal year
Tennessee Bureau of InvestigationNashville, Davidson CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$782K2023
Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson CountyNashville, Davidson CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$159K2024
Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson CountyNashville, Davidson CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$156K2026
Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson CountyNashville, Davidson CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$152K2023
Shelby County GovernmentMemphis, Shelby CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$135K2024
Shelby County GovernmentMemphis, Shelby CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$123K2026
Shelby County GovernmentMemphis, Shelby CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$121K2023
Shelby County GovernmentMemphis, Shelby CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$113K2024
Shelby County GovernmentMemphis, Shelby CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$110K2023
City of KnoxvilleKnoxville, Knox CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$53K2025
City of KnoxvilleKnoxville, Knox CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$51K2023
County of HamiltonChattanooga, Hamilton CountyTennessee Department of Finance and Administration$51K2023

Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).

Official program listing (SAM.gov) Program website