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In Colorado

$3 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

96

local governments

61

nonprofits

22

colleges and universities

139

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Colorado

Last updated September 15

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How Colorado has been hit hardest

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

Disaster Relief

Emergency planning funding slowed

$19M disrupted

More than $36 million in FEMA funds for Colorado and counter-terrorism programs on hold, court challenges continue | CPR

Health

Public health funding selectively discontinued in CA, CO, IL, and MN

$12M disrupted

Energy

Rural energy modernization funding slowed

$10M disrupted

USDA Keeps Freeze on REAP Grants | DTN

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Disaster Relief$770,035,521$1,114,651,172
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$3,192,992,123$620,147,064
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$1,022,269,733$351,431,151
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Health$360,698,735$351,132,862
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Environment$269,981,801$256,991,487
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Environment$72,058,601$77,077,189
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$68,377,980$55,593,816
  • ev drivers
  • +4
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
—
Environment$31,898,440$35,318,440
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$38,254,135$34,089,239
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Commerce$33,996,408$33,996,408
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$43,240,717$29,680,285
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$29,381,729$27,780,105
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Environment$25,770,689$25,770,689
  • urban communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
—
Commerce$25,034,673$24,879,406
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Disaster Relief$10,451,832$19,342,045
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
  • in litigation
—
Education$30,798,290$16,368,186
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Disaster Relief$10,407,114$15,110,892
  • public safety
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
—
Education$16,343,102$12,292,429
  • underrepresented students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$92,770,741$11,972,315
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
  • temporarily restored
——
Science and Technology$28,861,129$11,650,286
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$9,911,892$9,570,462
  • rural communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$18,011,232$8,276,843
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$17,457,342$7,795,740
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Energy$7,128,867$7,006,287
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$6,003,250$6,174,749
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$31,146,575$5,896,944
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Health$7,884,136$5,682,249
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
—
Justice and Legal$5,322,751$5,323,167
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Environment$9,357,964$5,317,243
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$4,812,003$4,812,003
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$3,794,843$4,462,131
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$10,134,895$3,997,925
  • graduate students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$8,085,205$3,456,991
  • local communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
—
Economic Development$4,187,919$2,814,919
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$2,724,792$2,767,035
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
—
Transportation$31,933,577$2,734,255
  • travelers
  • +1
Never meaningfully begun——
Education$17,306,382$2,559,792
  • students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$3,327,258$2,296,703
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$6,603,471$2,184,579
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$1,964,140$2,092,590
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$1,765,194$1,588,060
  • medical researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$3,197,640$1,438,061
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown———
Transportation$42,553,699$1,354,377
  • pedestrians
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Disaster Relief$4,145,889$872,862
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
$13,819,346
Housing$2,085,288$650,527
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
—
Social Services$693,177$408,766
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$152,392$152,392
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Natural Resources$251,069$78,289
  • boaters
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
48 impacts$6,435,566,335 total expected$3,227,041,407 total lost$13,819,346 total restored

How Colorado is fighting back

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

Colorado has joined14 lawsuitsand restored$14Min grant disruptions.

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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