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In North Carolina

$7 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

122

local governments

60

nonprofits

31

colleges and universities

250

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting North Carolina

Last updated September 15

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How North Carolina has been hit hardest

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

Health

Funding for minority health research cut

$240M 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

Environment

Four regional climate centers funding slowed

$235K 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$4,357,776,592
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$561,190,954$548,333,734
  • children
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Health$1,007,895,526$522,390,420
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$560,511,687$490,338,282
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Health$1,678,288,778$392,255,383
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
—
Health$282,881,026$239,530,690
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Environment$136,593,855$156,428,757
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$206,446,809$152,278,485
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Environment$76,592,142$86,714,194
  • k-12 students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$84,060,565$58,962,564
  • unaccompanied migrant children
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Environment$47,530,942$46,171,021
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Environment$30,545,537$30,545,537
  • urban communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$36,399,053$29,268,020
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Education$22,576,764$29,233,774
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$29,230,704$29,230,704
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Commerce$28,166,673$28,166,673
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$17,365,932$27,245,213
  • public safety
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Commerce$46,625,301$24,169,204
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Education$26,341,772$15,095,953
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$30,018,007$14,974,049
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Food and Nutrition$13,418,769$13,418,769
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Employment and Labor$175,193,903$13,219,374
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Energy$13,532,796$10,683,606
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Education$21,132,327$9,326,952
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$11,067,906$8,173,970
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program
  • permanently restored
$22,500,000
Justice and Legal$14,451,635$7,440,067
  • local communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program———
Transportation$7,100,301$6,287,426
  • travelers
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Health$5,667,511$5,795,025
  • mothers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Science and Technology$8,462,344$5,658,330
  • researchers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Economic Development$5,488,877$4,215,877
  • small businesses
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$8,735,094$4,160,989
  • teenagers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Justice and Legal$3,673,889$3,884,871
  • crime victims
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Culture$5,792,770$3,633,248
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Agriculture$5,336,992$3,492,618
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
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——
Education$1,689,865$965,848
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown———
Housing$2,018,063$850,253
  • renters
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$1,133,544$751,175
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Natural Resources$346,920$346,920
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Employment and Labor$231,878$239,778
  • workers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Environment$145,621$235,127
  • farmers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$293,540$177,112
  • veterans
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
45 impacts$15,002,271,596 total expected$7,418,609,474 total lost$22,500,000 total restored

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 has joined3 lawsuitsand restored$23Min 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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