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In Illinois

$10 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

145

local governments

123

nonprofits

47

school districts

630

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Illinois

Last updated September 15

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How Illinois has been hit hardest

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

Food and Nutrition

SNAP funding slowed

$4B disrupted

Millions lose food stamps under Trump cuts. Arizona is hardest hit | Reuters

Health

Biomedical education grants cancelled and frozen

$967M disrupted

Northwestern and UChicago hit hard as NIH slashes research funding | Axios Chicago

Justice and Legal

Law enforcement equipment and training support selectively discontinued

$44M disrupted

Bay Area Jurisdictions Expand Legal Fight Against Trump Sanctuary Crackdown | Local News Matters

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Food and Nutrition$11,993,692,903$4,233,724,997
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Disaster Relief$1,804,122,590$1,506,071,530
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$2,025,390,968$966,528,701
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$2,483,483,094$922,042,849
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Health$744,331,396$780,167,469
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Environment$619,870,074$594,491,259
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Environment$108,843,992$112,528,792
  • k-12 students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$107,585,620$86,642,014
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Transportation$106,014,738$85,839,239
  • ev drivers
  • +3
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
—
Education$127,646,750$83,697,644
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$90,019,294$56,085,717
  • pedestrians
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Commerce$52,959,052$52,422,743
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Justice and Legal$47,348,967$43,766,428
  • local communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
—
Environment$52,805,460$41,039,110
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Social Services$132,091,548$34,191,664
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Environment$31,635,472$31,585,472
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
——
Energy$22,314,415$21,126,245
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$194,016,170$20,193,535
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
  • temporarily restored
—
Education$26,872,211$18,264,063
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$33,891,523$17,936,802
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Employment and Labor$292,063,387$17,748,955
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$71,484,400$17,697,928
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Education$29,827,234$17,159,225
  • students
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$27,225,788$16,995,332
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
—
Disaster Relief$46,768,530$16,627,734
  • emergency responders
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
—
Health$58,641,273$15,799,681
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Education$9,516,751$15,308,777
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$13,369,018$13,369,018
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$12,747,496$11,885,400
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
$0
Science and Technology$16,052,322$11,314,310
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$10,925,322$10,925,322
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$12,981,446$8,841,446
  • consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Energy$17,171,931$7,904,106
  • rural communities
Funding slowdown——
Health$10,154,942$6,281,342
  • medical researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$4,572,487$6,134,465
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$4,950,869$4,950,869
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
—
Justice and Legal$3,889,920$3,959,913
  • crime victims
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$10,975,040$3,649,604
  • mothers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$4,715,695$2,848,716
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Culture$4,187,687$2,690,602
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Housing$7,401,908$2,415,566
  • renters
  • +4
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
—
Transportation$8,000,000$2,000,000
  • ferry riders
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Economic Development$2,662,069$1,612,069
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$5,223,446$1,320,956
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$1,222,848$852,227
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$35,528,793$377,540
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Natural Resources$404,173$359,700
  • boaters
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
47 impacts$21,527,601,012 total expected$9,929,377,076 total lost$0 total restored

How Illinois is fighting back

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

Illinois has joined14 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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