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In Kentucky

At Least $992M Gone.

That money was funding

47

local governments

30

nonprofits

22

state agencies

214

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Kentucky

Last updated October 30

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How Kentucky has been hit hardest

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

Education

Community school services selectively discontinued

$20M disrupted

Federal Funds for Community Schools Fall Victim to a New Round of Trump Cuts | Education Week

Energy

School building modernization programs gutted

$7M disrupted

Report Department of Energy Delays Funding for Energy Efficiency Work in Public Schools | SMART Union

Agriculture

Agriculture job training assistance for veterans slowed

$217K disrupted

USDA's AgVets Program Puts $2.85M in Reach of Veteran-Focused Rural Nonprofits — Deadline July 31 | Granted AI

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Health$362,780,079$361,341,199
  • children
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Environment$210,275,613$210,052,245
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Health$814,644,745$209,670,924
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Environment$23,046,756$24,081,756
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$22,575,692$21,690,113
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$60,584,413$19,989,698
  • students
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$19,442,476$19,401,770
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
Commerce$19,183,893$19,082,240
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Food and Nutrition$16,092,694$16,092,694
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$12,534,193$12,534,193
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$10,961,837$10,961,837
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Health$10,061,638$7,683,932
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$7,684,719$7,590,844
  • general public
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$6,501,396$6,501,396
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$10,451,243$5,420,093
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Energy$6,316,818$5,296,708
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Energy$7,461,543$5,250,782
  • rural communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$5,475,974$5,060,684
  • students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$13,048,047$3,839,537
  • consumers
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Education$4,928,446$3,394,705
  • underrepresented students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$31,933,577$3,193,205
  • travelers
  • +1
Never meaningfully begun—
Health$11,406,850$2,816,968
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$2,336,045$2,336,045
  • teenagers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$1,793,351$1,793,367
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Justice and Legal$25,049,955$1,611,961
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Economic Development$1,326,683$1,176,683
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Housing$1,963,185$1,148,819
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Commerce$782,787$782,787
  • underrepresented businesses owners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$2,292,599$718,489
  • mothers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$896,658$424,458
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$0$335,098
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Natural Resources$349,288$217,023
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$159,530$216,980
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Science and Technology$1,143,889$206,467
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$155,852$155,852
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$550,928$118,885
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Employment and Labor$85,767$98,122
  • workers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$1,014,427$61,967
  • wildfire communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Environment$24,971$203
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
39 impacts$1,727,318,557 total expected$992,350,729 total lost

How Kentucky is fighting back

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

Kentucky is one of 27 states that have joined lawsuits against the administration.

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 each jurisdiction’s expected share 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.

Note: For the purposes of this site, states are defined as the 50 states and the District of Columbia. We also track funding disruptions in the U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands) and in the freely associated states (the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau), which receive federal funding under Compacts of Free Association with the United States.

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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