NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on School Safety

Summary

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is soliciting research and evaluation projects focused on school safety under its FY2025 funding program. The opportunity is posted on Grants.gov as a federal grant/cooperative agreement synopsis. Full scope details are not provided in the synopsis text, but the program targets research-based inquiry and evaluation methodologies applied to school safety topics. This is a federal funding opportunity issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice.

What they want

How they evaluate

Risks & flags

• Synopsis provides minimal scope detail — full solicitation must be retrieved separately to assess true requirements
• Open date of 05/01/2026 with close date of 06/03/2026 yields only ~33 days to respond, which is a relatively short window for a federal research grant
• No award value, eligibility criteria, or technical requirements disclosed in the synopsis text