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In Tennessee

$2 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

81

local governments

38

nonprofits

26

colleges and universities

176

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Tennessee

Last updated September 15

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How Tennessee 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

$6M disrupted

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

Culture

Historic preservation awards stalled

$2M disrupted

Agriculture

Agriculture job training assistance for veterans slowed

$571K 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$671,362,572$798,046,677
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$1,213,736,412$332,142,438
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$316,403,268$316,255,700
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$3,266,044,249$188,548,074
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$68,850,047$67,223,249
  • ev drivers
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—$68,881,518
Transportation$51,772,205$47,079,045
  • pedestrians
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Social Services$43,683,797$42,995,797
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Health$63,255,672$41,947,647
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$41,831,973$40,104,684
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$33,864,445$35,144,445
  • k-12 students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$34,067,394$33,784,094
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Disaster Relief$11,419,205$18,718,048
  • public safety
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$17,683,530$17,683,530
  • urban communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program———
Commerce$30,457,992$14,643,704
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Health$36,288,225$14,306,868
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Employment and Labor$97,082,045$12,584,506
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$11,785,061$11,785,061
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$11,820,710$8,563,977
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
—
Justice and Legal$42,253,579$7,524,065
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Disaster Relief$6,663,539$6,663,539
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$6,635,693$6,637,205
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$6,314,855$6,314,855
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$5,800,729$5,800,729
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Education$19,788,912$5,313,148
  • students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$8,571,677$4,709,749
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$10,550,107$3,614,946
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program———
Education$9,302,092$3,127,419
  • graduate students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$4,070,942$3,084,551
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Science and Technology$5,797,320$3,056,710
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$2,971,567$2,971,567
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$19,799,173$2,798,068
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Housing$3,250,720$2,370,520
  • renters
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$1,982,191$2,007,191
  • crime victims
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Culture$3,139,763$1,984,191
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Transportation$2,820,874$869,629
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Economic Development$1,843,001$743,001
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$687,355$570,926
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$808,694$490,243
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Natural Resources$413,329$207,577
  • boaters
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Employment and Labor$131,142$131,142
  • workers
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$865,352$39,670
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
42 impacts$6,217,804,985 total expected$2,144,521,762 total lost$68,881,518 total restored

How Tennessee is fighting back

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

Tennessee has joined1 lawsuitsand restored$69Min 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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