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$177 Billion Gone.

The Trump administration has disrupted the work of

3,494

local governments

753

school districts

437

businesses

15,424

other recipients

Some funding was cut off with no warning.

In Michigan
Researchers studying birth outcomes for Black women in Michigan fear efforts to close the maternal mortality gap will come to a halt because grants were suddenly frozen.
In Mississippi
Teachers piloting a remarkable turnaround in statewide reading achievement were stripped of support with the cancellation of federal funding for 10 Regional Education Laboratories.
In Iowa
Aspiring farmers lost paid, hands-on training and land when the USDA scrapped their fellowship, leaving participants without a job and threatening the future of Iowa farming.

Other funding slowed to a trickle.

In Idaho
Individuals facing housing discrimination and unsafe living conditions no longer have the support to fight back, after millions in sudden cuts to fair housing groups.
In Texas
Sexual assault survivors may never get justice after the administration canceled a $1.2 million grant to process DNA evidence needed to prosecute the crimes.
In Alaska
Remote coastal communities lost access to medical care after an almost year-long freeze in hundreds of millions of federal dollars for the state’s rural ferry system.

And some projects never got off the ground.

In Ohio
Despite nearly a million residents lacking high-speed internet at home, the state’s $23.3 million award for devices, skills training, and local programs was canceled before payout.
In Nevada
Low-income households were denied a promised 20% cut in electricity bills when the EPA canceled a $156 million grant for community and multi-family solar projects.
In Rhode Island
Fixes to roads and bridges stalled and greenhouse gas reductions were canceled after the administration cut $32 million promised for low-carbon transportation project materials.

That money made a difference in real lives.

Funding disruptions harmed children, farmers, parents, teachers, drivers, doctors, and millions of Americans trying to make ends meet.

Learn about the impacts in your state

Funding cuts and freezes are causing chaos and harm across the country. Find out more about the effects where you live.

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This isn’t business as usual.

It’s the largest disruption of federal funding in the record—and Americans never had a say.

States have joined23 lawsuitsand restored$35Bin grant disruptions.

Learn more about the work to restore promised federal funding. How states are fighting back

About this project

This is a joint project between States United and Grant Witness.

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Methodology

All content on Lost Funds is based on publicly available data.

The primary source for grant award amounts is USAspending. Litigation information is pulled directly from court documents available via CourtListener. Expected funding figures are drawn from the strongest evidence available. We rely on award announcements when we can, falling back to agency budgets, Congressional appropriations, and historical trends. If we have only national funding levels for an impact, we estimate states’ expected shares using historical spending when possible, supplemented by program-specific allocation factors like population or highway miles.

We catalog a disruption when one of the following has occurred:

  1. the formal cancellation of funding a federal agency has committed to deliver under a grant award or contract for procurement;
  2. the freezing of funds wherein a formal cancellation does not exist, but grant and contract recipients cannot draw down funds; or
  3. a slowdown in the pace of grantmaking as measured by the number of new awards issued or fewer dollars obligated or outlaid under awards compared to previous years.

We identify funding disruptions using a variety of signals, including agency communications, directives from the administration, media coverage, litigation filings, and direct submissions.

We also track litigation arising from disruptions where the attorney general or governor of a state brings an action against President Trump, federal departments or agencies, or executive branch officials. In cases where plaintiff states seek nonmonetary relief such as an injunction, we calculate the amount under dispute for a given impact area as the aggregate of disrupted funds among plaintiff states. Where plaintiff states have specified loss amounts in their pleadings, we use those figures to calculate the amount of funding restored from litigation, otherwise we derive them from state-level estimates of funding disruptions.

Note: For the purposes of this site, states are defined as the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

How to cite the data:
Clawson, J., Kaczmarek, U., Ross, N., Scott, E. R., Shan, M., Mairson, E. & Delaney, S. (2026). Lost Funds: A States United and Grant Witness Project Tracking Funding Disruptions under the Trump Administration [Dataset]. Accessed {access date}. https://lostfunds.org

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