OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Invited to Apply | O OJJDP 2025 172474

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OJJDP 2025 172474

The OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) - Invited to Apply opportunity is a discretionary federal funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It is designed to support the ongoing national work carried out through NCMECs National Resource Center and Clearinghouse. In practical terms, the funding is aimed at sustaining and strengthening a central, nationwide hub that helps prevent child abduction and child sexual exploitation, assists in the recovery and location of missing children, and provides specialized support services and capacity-building for the people and systems that respond to these cases.

The program being funded is operated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit organization established in 1984. The core purpose described in the notice focuses on three connected missions: prevention of child abduction and sexual exploitation, active efforts to find missing children, and the delivery of technical assistance and training. That assistance is intended not only for direct victims and their families, but also for the professionals who serve them, such as law enforcement, prosecutors, child protection practitioners, victim service providers, and other allied professionals who may be involved in investigation, recovery, case management, and aftercare.

This opportunity is offered as a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, which generally signals a closer working relationship with the federal agency during the project period. Under a cooperative agreement, OJJDP typically expects substantial involvement in coordinating, guiding, or collaborating on major elements of the work, including alignment with federal priorities and performance expectations. The funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, and the applicable CFDA number listed is 16.543.

Eligibility is shown as "Others," but the title and framing of the solicitation make clear it is an invited-to-apply announcement, meaning it is intended for a specific organization rather than an open competition among many applicants. The notice anticipates a single award, with an award ceiling of $42,976,147, reflecting the scale of national operations and the breadth of responsibilities tied to NCMECs resource center and clearinghouse functions.

Key administrative details included in the source data are: Funding Opportunity Number O-OJJDP-2025-172474; issuing agency Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention; instrument type Cooperative Agreement; opportunity category Discretionary; expected awards 1; creation date September 25, 2025; and an original closing date of October 1, 2025. Overall, the opportunity is structured to maintain a national-level capability for prevention, case support, technical assistance, and training related to missing children and child exploitation, anchored by NCMECs long-standing role as a central resource and clearinghouse for the field.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY25 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Invited to Apply" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.543.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-09-25.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-10-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $42,976,147.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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