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In North Carolina

At Least $7.3B Gone.

That money was funding

105

local governments

61

nonprofits

32

colleges and universities

252

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting North Carolina

Last updated October 30

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How North Carolina has been hit hardest

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

Health

Funding for minority health research cut

$214M disrupted

Trump’s Dangerous Retreat from Minority Health Research | Community Service Society of New York | Community Service Society of New York

Justice and Legal

Funds to help communities and law enforcement prevent violence cut

$152M disrupted

DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence and addiction prevention, victim advocacy | Washington Post

Environment

Four regional climate centers funding slowed

$241K disrupted

Regional Climate Centers Shut Down Abruptly this Week. Here's Why it Matters | KCUR

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Food and Nutrition$9,740,696,225$4,137,843,894
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown
  • restored outside of litigation
  • permanently restored
Health$556,404,271$619,817,741
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Health$1,007,832,495$525,419,521
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Environment$558,852,781$488,561,248
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Health$1,678,288,778$399,399,790
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily lost
Health$299,015,618$213,625,719
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Environment$136,593,855$156,428,757
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$206,126,792$152,014,972
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
Environment$76,265,980$86,628,032
  • k-12 students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Social Services$84,229,708$59,131,707
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$47,532,530$46,172,609
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Food and Nutrition$31,581,016$31,581,016
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$30,552,966$30,552,966
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Agriculture$30,407,624$29,827,256
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$36,366,695$29,235,662
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$22,574,784$29,231,793
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$17,368,953$28,216,849
  • general public
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$28,173,574$28,173,574
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$46,630,555$24,174,458
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Education$32,931,956$22,944,824
  • students
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$16,856,470$16,856,470
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$30,018,007$14,991,258
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Employment and Labor$175,341,085$11,650,704
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$13,506,797$10,657,607
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Education$18,726,237$9,502,664
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$21,143,407$9,338,031
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$11,067,906$8,173,970
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
Transportation$7,099,981$6,287,105
  • travelers
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Science and Technology$8,462,344$5,658,330
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$4,936,889$4,987,924
  • educators, students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$5,589,584$4,939,597
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$102,487,239$4,183,514
  • students
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$8,726,219$4,152,114
  • teenagers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Economic Development$5,191,951$3,918,951
  • small businesses
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Justice and Legal$3,674,130$3,885,112
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$5,336,833$3,492,460
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$1,859,671$2,210,678
  • underrepresented businesses owners
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$3,524,881$1,571,286
  • general public
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$1,568,704$1,568,704
  • wildfire communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Environment$10,371,637$1,469,323
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Housing$2,017,912$850,102
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Education$1,694,408$446,898
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$1,176,475$430,712
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Natural Resources$327,199$327,199
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Environment$151,957$241,464
  • farmers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Employment and Labor$231,888$239,789
  • workers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Agriculture$306,318$189,890
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
48 impacts$15,161,756,862 total expected$7,303,137,821 total lost

How North Carolina is fighting back

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

North Carolina 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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