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In Rhode Island

At Least $1.08B Gone.

That money was funding

25

local governments

19

nonprofits

16

state agencies

45

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Rhode Island

Last updated October 30

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How Rhode Island has been hit hardest

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

Health

Biomedical education grants cancelled and frozen

$334M disrupted

Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump | KFF Health News

Health

Student mental health services ended

$31M disrupted

Trump Ends 1 Billion in Mental Health Grants for Schools | Education Week

Natural Resources

Aquatic invasive species mitigation slowed

$458K disrupted

The Feds Who Kill Blood-Sucking Parasites | New Yorker

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Health$670,120,351$334,281,870
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
  • permanently restored
Health$148,413,645$151,285,068
  • children
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Food and Nutrition$757,410,925$142,733,859
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
  • permanently restored
Disaster Relief$197,736,524$139,541,476
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Health$410,982,001$94,150,388
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Environment$48,059,669$47,968,082
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$56,729,478$37,397,603
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Health$32,342,225$30,553,046
  • students
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Environment$6,598,640$6,509,821
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
Social Services$6,737,741$6,412,741
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$5,138,531$5,924,554
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$4,641,086$4,606,151
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Transportation$7,700,550$3,820,550
  • consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Environment$3,789,862$3,789,862
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Justice and Legal$4,408,163$3,561,345
  • local communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$3,503,494$3,503,494
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Energy$3,168,559$3,168,559
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Food and Nutrition$3,041,992$3,041,992
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Commerce$2,972,987$2,972,987
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$3,918,911$2,956,798
  • students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$9,031,737$2,755,924
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Disaster Relief$3,834,064$2,659,764
  • general public
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
Disaster Relief$2,234,252$2,234,252
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
  • in litigation
—
Energy$2,215,022$2,215,022
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$3,223,459$1,611,911
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • permanently lost
Agriculture$1,374,166$1,361,459
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$1,877,250$1,259,407
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Science and Technology$2,680,431$1,142,561
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$1,473,482$873,912
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Employment and Labor$32,246,818$804,390
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$18,710,533$778,069
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$3,463,061$617,774
  • educators
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Housing$745,868$521,358
  • renters
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
Natural Resources$187,476$457,894
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Health$12,728,286$455,634
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Economic Development$288,558$288,558
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$138,926$138,926
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
38 impacts$2,505,802,300 total expected$1,080,290,638 total lost

How Rhode Island is fighting back

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

Rhode Island 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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