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In Puerto Rico

At Least $8.28B Gone.

That money was funding

46

nonprofits

36

local governments

16

colleges and universities

162

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Puerto Rico

Last updated October 16

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How Puerto Rico has been hit hardest

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

Disaster Relief

Disaster relief to states slashed

$7B disrupted

FEMA Delays 11 Billion State Disaster Reimbursements | National Association of Counties

Energy

Puerto Rico resilient solar projects terminated

$365M disrupted

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico | Latitude Media

Energy

Solar power projects cancelled

$315M disrupted

The End of DoE's Grid Work in Puerto Rico | Latitude Media

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Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Disaster Relief$9,587,816,748$6,635,031,225
  • disaster survivors
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Energy$365,010,821$365,010,821
  • puerto rico residents
Never meaningfully begun—
Energy$405,992,660$314,742,660
  • energy consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Energy$215,263,646$211,004,693
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Health$171,167,338$203,012,381
  • children
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$527,030,868$145,743,809
  • patients
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$125,049,650$125,043,676
  • local communities
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Environment$52,011,699$51,684,982
  • underserved communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$40,575,388$31,357,841
  • underrepresented students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Employment and Labor$62,206,489$29,289,955
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Transportation$24,760,570$24,760,570
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun—
Environment$19,744,390$19,646,012
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Environment$14,683,772$14,862,433
  • k-12 students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Commerce$13,262,283$13,262,283
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Education$15,457,853$8,881,162
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Environment$8,697,601$8,697,601
  • urban communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$23,266,768$8,256,580
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown—
Food and Nutrition$8,243,001$8,243,001
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Education$14,660,779$7,119,113
  • graduate students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$6,937,644$6,937,644
  • electricity customers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Disaster Relief$6,144,640$6,082,136
  • general public
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Disaster Relief$6,801,831$5,481,991
  • rural communities
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Agriculture$7,892,153$4,874,515
  • farmers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Energy$5,550,152$4,867,172
  • local communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Transportation$9,026,742$4,801,598
  • ev drivers
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun—
Justice and Legal$15,673,329$4,171,829
  • crime survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown—
Health$4,890,706$3,788,026
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$3,847,093$3,604,013
  • students
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$4,029,813$3,573,885
  • mothers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Health$4,687,583$1,836,084
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Justice and Legal$1,570,961$1,570,961
  • crime victims
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Social Services$3,974,902$1,014,102
  • teenagers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Science and Technology$891,553$879,588
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program—
Environment$1,349,990$728,234
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program—
Culture$3,758,061$456,055
  • families, adult learners
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$7,322,353$450,612
  • students
Cut-off mid-program—
Housing$420,355$295,355
  • renters
  • +2
Funding slowdown—
Employment and Labor$95,273$177,435
  • workers
  • +1
Funding slowdown—
Education$2,303,289$48,504
  • migrant students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
39 impacts$11,792,070,747 total expected$8,281,290,537 total lost

How Puerto Rico 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. Puerto Rico has not yet.

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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