Skip to main content

In Virginia

$3 Billion Gone.

That money was funding

93

local governments

78

nonprofits

28

state agencies

229

other recipients

How funding disruptions are hurting Virginia

Last updated September 15

Click to explore impacts

How Virginia has been hit hardest

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

Environment

Environmental project grants cancelled

$500M disrupted

EPA workers silenced as agency cancels hundreds of grants | ABC News

Employment and Labor

Clean energy job training funding prevented

$5M disrupted

SCEP Programs were Intended to Help Communities Save Energy and Money: Here’s What We Know About the Status of Funding | DOE Alumni Network

Culture

Historic preservation awards stalled

$3M disrupted

Explore the data

Take a closer look at the impact of funding disruptions, in this state or every state.

Download Virginia data Download full dataset

Tap for details

Disrupted funding impacts. Select a row to see full details.
Food and Nutrition$3,851,524,544$766,437,047
  • low-income households
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Health$788,946,751$753,833,642
  • children
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$1,529,065,883$543,859,327
  • patients
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$500,740,000$500,191,696
  • general public
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$608,087,304$105,375,034
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Environment$76,048,333$84,100,012
  • urban communities
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program
  • temporarily restored
——
Transportation$62,848,660$61,848,660
  • pedestrians
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Environment$46,630,514$49,835,514
  • k-12 students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$792,653,068$48,001,141
  • disaster survivors
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$74,387,944$44,352,554
  • ev drivers
  • +4
Never meaningfully begun—$82,925,882
Health$52,323,408$39,985,519
  • underrepresented communities
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Environment$40,043,058$39,849,210
  • underserved communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$39,493,986$38,720,574
  • low-income households
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun
  • temporarily lost
—
Energy$32,074,279$32,074,279
  • energy consumers
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Transportation$31,933,577$31,933,577
  • travelers
Never meaningfully begun——
Disaster Relief$17,523,351$29,717,586
  • public safety
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$43,774,415$27,505,136
  • patients
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Employment and Labor$120,340,664$24,667,682
  • job seekers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Health$32,078,239$24,376,885
  • students
  • +1
Funding slowdown——
Education$40,539,372$21,526,859
  • students
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Commerce$22,068,495$20,354,516
  • tribal communities
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$19,448,302$19,448,302
  • consumers
  • +2
Funding slowdown———
Energy$33,404,562$19,296,745
  • low-income households
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Commerce$36,974,356$18,643,624
  • rural communities
  • +2
Never meaningfully begun——
Justice and Legal$73,335,129$16,627,688
  • crime victims
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Education$10,252,426$14,105,656
  • students
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Justice and Legal$31,717,634$12,204,031
  • local communities
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program
  • in litigation
——
Education$13,541,907$11,437,682
  • underrepresented students
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Education$18,415,726$10,469,988
  • graduate students
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Science and Technology$12,477,976$7,106,174
  • researchers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Food and Nutrition$6,809,101$6,809,101
  • farmers
  • +3
Cut-off mid-program——
Transportation$5,048,650$5,048,650
  • ferry riders
  • +1
Funding slowdown———
Employment and Labor$4,935,417$4,935,417
  • workers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Environment$6,707,559$4,453,225
  • researchers
  • +2
Cut-off mid-program——
Social Services$3,968,720$3,968,720
  • teenagers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program——
Disaster Relief$3,485,305$3,485,305
  • wildfire communities
  • +2
Funding slowdown
  • temporarily restored
$0
Health$4,399,268$3,386,249
  • mothers
  • +4
Cut-off mid-program——
Culture$5,959,843$3,366,722
  • local communities
  • +3
Funding slowdown———
Transportation$3,361,956$3,361,956
  • travelers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Agriculture$4,292,082$3,116,440
  • underrepresented farmers
  • +1
Cut-off mid-program———
Justice and Legal$2,741,359$2,791,370
  • crime victims
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Housing$2,879,177$1,837,842
  • renters
  • +4
Funding slowdown——
Economic Development$3,221,576$1,721,576
  • small businesses
  • +3
Funding slowdown——
Social Services$935,332$552,925
  • survivors of domestic violence
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Natural Resources$327,784$327,784
  • boaters
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
Employment and Labor$236,954$7,508
  • workers
  • +2
Funding slowdown——
46 impacts$9,112,003,946 total expected$3,467,057,130 total lost$82,925,882 total restored

How Virginia is fighting back

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

Virginia has joined3 lawsuitsand restored$83Min 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

Download full dataset

Share the facts

The administration’s federal funding disruptions affect Americans in every state. Spread the word and help others learn more.