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In Montana

At Least $596M Gone.

That money was funding

33

local governments

19

nonprofits

14

tribal entities

108

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Montana

Last updated October 30

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How Montana has been hit hardest

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

Energy

Rural energy modernization funding slowed

$20M disrupted

USDA Keeps Freeze on REAP Grants | DTN

Disaster Relief

Funding for combatting wildfires eliminated

$8M disrupted

Community Wildfire Defense Grants Fill a Critical Gap for Rural Communities | Headwaters Economics

Agriculture

Agriculture job training assistance for veterans slowed

$359K 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$132,963,132$159,393,833
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$157,043,013$78,279,288
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Health$296,887,009$71,145,526
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$54,170,736$53,398,681
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Food and Nutrition$347,929,765$44,210,959
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$34,694,832$34,643,008
  • ev drivers
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Energy$21,261,491$20,306,126
  • rural communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Energy$19,186,286$16,012,088
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Energy$15,119,742$15,119,742
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Commerce$30,872,156$8,029,234
  • tribal communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Employment and Labor$19,225,311$7,907,474
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$8,822,512$7,553,964
  • wildfire communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$8,026,943$7,224,637
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Food and Nutrition$6,755,467$6,755,467
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$4,099,009$6,419,229
  • general public
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$4,766,732$4,766,732
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Environment$2,870,944$3,846,616
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$8,732,959$3,519,324
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$4,557,946$2,715,156
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$2,172,484$2,018,906
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Economic Development$1,965,120$1,665,120
  • small businesses
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$1,588,590$1,334,132
  • students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$1,305,782$1,333,870
  • students
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Health$1,483,165$1,140,309
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$1,087,550$1,088,058
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Commerce$728,572$959,559
  • underrepresented businesses owners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$1,220,403$747,539
  • graduate students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$1,390,242$620,234
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Justice and Legal$473,507$534,850
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Social Services$2,533,677$525,562
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$1,723,453$412,769
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Agriculture$373,739$358,812
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$185,945$185,945
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Natural Resources$383,769$153,319
  • boaters
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Housing$355,259$95,259
  • renters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Science and Technology$58,000$4,105
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
37 impacts$1,228,948,819 total expected$596,359,009 total lost

How Montana is fighting back

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

27 states have joined lawsuits against the administration. Montana is not yet one of them.

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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