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In Kentucky

$1 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

48

local governments

29

nonprofits

22

state agencies

214

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Kentucky

Last updated September 15

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How Kentucky has been hit hardest

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

Energy

School building modernization programs gutted

$7M disrupted

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

Natural Resources

Aquatic invasive species mitigation slowed

$326K disrupted

Trump Cuts Could Hinder Efforts to Stop Climate-Fueled Spread of Invasive Species | Inside Climate News

Agriculture

Agriculture job training assistance for veterans slowed

$210K 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$362,355,199$361,056,245
  • children
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Environment$210,678,602$210,455,234
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$814,644,745$204,987,638
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Disaster Relief$750,216,898$51,678,983
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Environment$23,142,796$23,832,796
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$22,527,369$21,641,790
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program———
Environment$19,441,782$19,401,076
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Commerce$19,181,732$19,080,078
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Environment$12,531,132$12,531,132
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program———
Education$8,900,327$8,485,037
  • students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$10,663,651$8,285,945
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Disaster Relief$7,683,596$7,589,721
  • public safety
  • +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$6,329,167$5,309,057
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$4,990,990$5,178,766
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$7,463,475$5,166,702
  • rural communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$13,048,047$3,839,537
  • consumers
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Education$4,925,393$3,391,653
  • underrepresented students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$31,933,577$3,193,205
  • travelers
  • +1
Never meaningfully begun——
Health$11,456,850$2,769,798
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$2,338,166$2,338,166
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$1,793,316$1,793,333
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$4,811,035$1,679,629
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program———
Justice and Legal$25,085,977$1,647,983
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Health$2,332,461$1,628,351
  • mothers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Housing$1,963,332$1,573,965
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Economic Development$1,332,330$1,182,330
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$12,527,937$469,079
  • farmers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$894,905$422,705
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown———
Culture$2,276,420$384,957
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Environment$0$335,098
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program———
Natural Resources$370,568$325,568
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$638,990$256,583
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$152,882$210,332
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Science and Technology$1,143,889$206,467
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$550,928$118,885
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Employment and Labor$85,760$98,115
  • 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——
40 impacts$2,418,406,261 total expected$1,004,529,598 total lost$0 total restored

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 has joined2 lawsuitsand restored$0in 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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