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In Colorado

At Least $3.06B Gone.

That money was funding

92

local governments

62

nonprofits

22

colleges and universities

140

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Colorado

Last updated October 30

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How Colorado has been hit hardest

Here are three significant ways Colorado 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

$11M 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$703,113,387$1,007,153,781
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Food and Nutrition$3,192,992,123$506,651,497
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
  • permanently restored
Health$358,077,343$378,457,608
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
—
Health$1,022,669,733$360,307,331
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Environment$270,026,552$254,021,714
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Environment$72,058,601$77,077,189
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$31,765,372$36,059,775
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$47,706,082$34,921,918
  • ev drivers
  • +4
Never meaningfully begun
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Environment$38,250,388$34,085,491
  • low-income households
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
Commerce$33,995,489$33,995,489
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$43,202,277$29,641,845
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Social Services$29,444,638$27,843,013
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Housing$35,362,894$27,043,451
  • migrants
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$25,773,503$25,773,503
  • urban communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Commerce$25,037,494$24,882,227
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Disaster Relief$10,451,832$19,342,045
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
  • in litigation
Education$30,798,290$16,368,186
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • permanently lost
Disaster Relief$10,408,470$15,112,248
  • general public
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
Energy$14,793,656$14,793,656
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Food and Nutrition$13,151,933$13,151,933
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Education$16,350,450$12,299,777
  • underrepresented students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Science and Technology$28,861,129$11,650,286
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$114,626,851$11,442,555
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
  • in litigation
—
Energy$9,911,022$9,569,592
  • rural communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Health$15,232,992$8,018,818
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
  • permanently restored
Energy$7,115,471$6,992,891
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Health$16,617,021$6,473,767
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Justice and Legal$31,102,656$5,853,024
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Justice and Legal$5,322,083$5,322,499
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Environment$9,357,964$5,317,243
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$7,790,398$5,236,344
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Energy$4,812,003$4,812,003
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$10,841,585$4,563,735
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$3,795,755$4,463,043
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
Social Services$2,722,667$2,764,911
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Transportation$31,933,577$2,734,255
  • travelers
  • +1
Never meaningfully begun—
Economic Development$3,912,278$2,539,278
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Health$2,515,194$2,302,938
  • medical researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Environment$6,603,471$2,184,558
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$5,740,402$2,101,171
  • local communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
Transportation$1,964,343$2,092,793
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$42,848,799$1,649,477
  • pedestrians
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Health$3,271,491$1,370,936
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$990,558$990,558
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$4,145,889$872,862
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Housing$2,085,133$650,372
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
Commerce$1,152,321$552,321
  • underrepresented businesses owners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Agriculture$159,027$159,027
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$14,840,777$94,187
  • students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$719,399$71,594
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Natural Resources$236,285$63,506
  • boaters
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Education$3,176,264$45,391
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
52 impacts$6,419,835,312 total expected$3,061,939,612 total lost

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 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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