The Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ) provides supplemental funding through state and federal grants to Utah agencies. This includes state, county, municipal and private criminal justice providers capable of administering programs and services which support and improve the criminal and juvenile justice ecosystem in Utah. State and federal grants can be distributed either by formula or competitively through a robust grant review process. The Grants team develops funding strategies for Commission approval and establishes projects throughout the State, while providing ongoing programmatic support, financial compliance monitoring, and training to grantees. This report provides a high-level overview of supplemental funding awarded in State Fiscal Year 2024. For information on available funding opportunities, please visit here.
In State Fiscal Year 2024, CCJJ awarded a total of $34,181,172 to over 200 different state, county, municipal and local organizations across the state of Utah.
Specifically, $20,664,186 grant dollars through the Utah Office of Victims of Crime (UOVC) was awarded to 117 organizations composed of nonprofits, state/local governments, hospitals, and universities. To learn more about UOVC grants, please see here.
$7,139,523 grant dollars through the Indigent Defense Commission (IDC) was awarded to 26 different counties and 2 cities. To learn more about IDC grants, please see here.
The available funding that CCJJ awarded came from 21 different grant sources. State and federal funding sources were nearly equal in awarded grants with $17,191,535 in state grant sources and $16,989,637 in federal grant sources.
Further, based on the funding sources, there is usually a guideline/restriction for distribution. We see that in 2024, the majority, $23,483,370 of the awarded funding was based on a competitive application review process and $10,697,802 was based on formula. All potential funding awards are approved at the commission level.
In terms of population served, we see that the majority of grant funding, $29,650,660 were aimed at serving both adults and youth, $3,616,621 serving adults only, and $913,891 serving youth only.
When broken down by topic area, we can see the two largest topic areas include Victim Services and Indigent Defense. Other major topic areas include law enforcement, court/system diversion, corrections, substance use/mental health/treatment, research/data, technology improvement and crime/delinquency prevention. It is also important to note some Grant funding sources serve more than one topic areas. For example, STOP VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) Grants are awarded to law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, victim services.
Looking at funding awarded by geography, the below figure shows for the most part, the majority of the awardees are serving the entire state of Utah, so you can see a similar percentage share for the regions shaded in light blue. We also see Salt Lake, Uintah, Washington, Davis, Sanpete, Weber, Cache, and Box Elder as the counties with a higher share of the funding awards.