In South Dakota
At Least $512M Gone.
That money was funding
24
tribal entities
16
nonprofits
11
state agencies
105
other recipients
How funding disruptions are hurting South Dakota
Last updated October 30
All grant funding disruptions in South Dakota
How South Dakota has been hit hardest
Here are three significant ways South Dakota has felt the impact of federal funding disruptions.
Energy
Rural energy modernization funding slowed
$15M disrupted
USDA Keeps Freeze on REAP Grants | DTN
Education
Teacher training programs terminated
$10M disrupted
Trump slashed teacher training, citing DEI. Educators say the grants fought staff shortages | Associated Press
Energy
School building modernization programs gutted
$4M disrupted
Report Department of Energy Delays Funding for Energy Efficiency Work in Public Schools | SMART Union
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How South Dakota 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. South Dakota is not yet one of them.
Learn more about the work to restore promised federal funding. How states are fighting backMethodology
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:
- the formal cancellation of funding a federal agency has committed to deliver under a grant award or contract for procurement;
- the freezing of funds wherein a formal cancellation does not exist, but grant and contract recipients cannot draw down funds; or
- 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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