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In Massachusetts

At Least $5.77B Gone.

That money was funding

81

nonprofits

59

local governments

39

colleges and universities

168

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Massachusetts

Last updated October 30

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How Massachusetts has been hit hardest

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

Science and Technology

Science research grants cancelled and frozen

$219M disrupted

Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation is in crisis | Washington Post

Education

Biomedical education grants cancelled and frozen

$157M disrupted

Cancellation of NIH summer internships disrupts ‘vital’ training program for U.S. scientists | STAT

Health

Health research grants cancelled and frozen

$41M disrupted

Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks | KFF Health News

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Food and Nutrition$6,357,793,648$1,663,240,035
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
  • permanently restored
Health$2,364,285,574$1,332,254,400
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
  • permanently restored
Health$809,265,567$803,352,375
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Disaster Relief$1,005,595,686$406,805,294
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Environment$309,731,867$309,113,765
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Health$1,422,437,361$269,606,388
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Science and Technology$345,459,745$219,218,249
  • researchers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$231,857,549$156,932,161
  • graduate students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Employment and Labor$152,625,998$47,375,313
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$49,281,170$46,920,220
  • general public
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$40,600,865$44,090,865
  • k-12 students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$50,983,916$42,472,132
  • pedestrians
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Energy$52,163,565$42,422,895
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$64,160,783$41,235,399
  • medical researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Social Services$39,944,621$38,580,302
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$33,509,049$32,609,810
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
  • permanently restored
Education$103,991,704$32,076,674
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • permanently lost
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Housing$27,460,355$29,284,382
  • migrants
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$21,559,649$21,059,649
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$51,675,382$19,286,158
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Environment$18,680,665$18,680,665
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Food and Nutrition$18,541,113$18,541,113
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Commerce$29,791,021$15,657,097
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Agriculture$17,869,472$13,697,467
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$7,432,903$9,223,533
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown
  • permanently restored
Energy$9,737,273$8,853,083
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Energy$7,844,941$7,844,941
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Health$8,172,396$7,401,566
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • in litigation
  • permanently restored
Education$6,774,318$7,119,590
  • underrepresented students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$5,543,423$5,590,441
  • crime victims
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Social Services$7,093,610$4,650,114
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
Transportation$15,063,380$4,224,246
  • ferry riders
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Environment$75,189,241$3,840,110
  • underserved communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$3,494,907$3,715,348
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Housing$6,084,976$3,090,792
  • renters
  • +4
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
Health$6,561,497$3,048,406
  • mothers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$6,359,329$3,012,464
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Agriculture$3,146,759$2,764,860
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Economic Development$2,852,308$1,952,308
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$10,595,345$1,833,285
  • consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$1,997,356$1,682,590
  • local communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
Transportation$3,400,440$473,573
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Environment$2,427,199$245,430
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Employment and Labor$179,268$229,068
  • workers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$227,289$227,289
  • wildfire communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Natural Resources$290,690$154,496
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Social Services$836,562$90,762
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$1,374,818$39,800
  • students
Cut-off mid-program—
49 impacts$13,843,880,130 total expected$5,777,754,480 total lost

How Massachusetts is fighting back

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

Massachusetts 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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