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In Alaska

$2 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

142

tribal entities

24

nonprofits

20

state agencies

121

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Alaska

Last updated September 15

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How Alaska has been hit hardest

Here are three significant ways the state has felt the impact of federal funding disruptions.

Commerce

Funding for high-speed internet in Tribal communities selectively ended

$407M disrupted

What Happened NTIA's Tribal Broadband Money | Fierce Network

Transportation

Funding for critical ferries in rural areas stalled

$325M disrupted

Alaska’s ferry system could run out of funding this summer due to ‘federal chaos problem’ | Alaska Beacon | Alaska Beacon

Environment

Environmental justice program terminated

$131M disrupted

Nonprofits Tribes and Local Governments Sue Trump Administration for Terminating EPA Grant Programs | Earthjustice

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Commerce$407,421,773$407,146,743
  • tribal communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$406,208,497$334,120,172
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$594,432,504$325,037,551
  • ferry riders
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$147,699,743$187,193,412
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$650,390,900$182,971,427
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$151,186,759$130,998,895
  • underserved communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$271,510,002$95,628,778
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$100,746,913$95,181,548
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$30,483,130$26,756,099
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Transportation$22,408,174$22,408,174
  • ev drivers
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—$40,128,326
Food and Nutrition$13,947,507$13,972,954
  • farmers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$13,920,574$11,225,455
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Environment$9,492,276$8,574,659
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun——
Education$6,485,230$4,892,565
  • underrepresented students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$4,567,788$4,255,578
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Health$3,941,080$2,996,500
  • underrepresented communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Disaster Relief$3,057,575$2,807,712
  • wildfire communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Environment$2,646,049$2,646,049
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program———
Transportation$5,218,004$2,619,759
  • pedestrians
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Disaster Relief$2,490,738$2,432,447
  • public safety
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$2,105,586$2,105,586
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$3,341,600$2,099,931
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program———
Education$2,471,531$2,025,157
  • students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$3,261,706$1,984,579
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$1,014,266$1,014,266
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Natural Resources$839,808$728,439
  • boaters
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Housing$1,108,528$720,588
  • renters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$2,052,323$698,946
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$609,265$679,270
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$1,324,131$660,160
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$538,267$538,267
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Science and Technology$614,931$457,232
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$1,570,858$433,166
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$954,638$308,158
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Energy$669,892$138,138
  • rural communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Environment$75,000$30,196
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Employment and Labor$26,217$26,217
  • workers
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
37 impacts$2,870,833,763 total expected$1,878,514,773 total lost$40,128,326 total restored

How Alaska is fighting back

Across the country, states are going to court to force the administration to keep its promises and restore funding.

Alaska has not yet joined a lawsuit.

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

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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