Updates – Grant Witness

New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report!

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National Science Foundation

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After the mass terminations of science and health grants at NSF and NIH in 2025, and then CDC and SAMHSA in early 2026, terminations of science grants have been quiet, even…

Updates to NSF Funding Curves

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We made some adjustments to the NSF funding curves over the past week to address inconsistencies in how we combine research.gov and USAspending data. The methodology…

Update to handling of NIH supplements

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Previously, we had treated NIH supplements with the same suffix, but different support years as the same “subgrant”. Today, we made a change to treat them separately. For…

Funding Curves Updates

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We have updated our NIH funding curves and NSF funding curves to reflect the updates that were made in the data we use for creating the NIH and NSF funding curves. We also…

NIH data overhaul

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Today we release a major overhaul of our NIH grants data that includes some big improvements to how we track and display disruptions to NIH funding. Briefly, we now track…

Refining our criteria for ‘frozen’ NIH grants

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Detecting “frozen” grants is one of the most difficult data science challenges we face at Grant Witness and we’ve made a number of updates to our methods in the past.¹²³ Toda…

How forward funding is being used to gut the NSF GRFP

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National Science Foundation

Accounting tricks are part of a year-long assault on the 74-year old program supporting the next generation of scientists and engineers.

$600M in CDC grants to CA, MN, CO, and IL targeted for termination: Full list

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Grant Witness is publishing the list of CDC grants the Trump administration has ordered to be terminated in California, Minnesota, Colorado, and Illinois.

Analyzing Disrupted SAMHSA Programs and Funding Opportunities

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In a previous update, we shared the launch of a new tracker to provide details on every grant that received a termination letter by SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse and Mental…

Removal of court-reported reinstatments with no termination

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Today we update our NIH grant tracker to remove 362 grants that appeared in court documents as court-ordered reinstatements, but were never detected as terminated by our…

Updated list of reinstated EPA grants

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Following up on our previous blog post regarding updates to Grant Witness’s EPA data, we wanted to share that reinstated grants are now being tracked in both the EPA data…

Mally Shan, Eric R. Scott

Added NIH spending category predictions for recent grants

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We have added predicted NIH spending categories to grants in the Grant Witness database that do not yet have official categorizations from NIH.

Grant Witness is tracking SAMHSA Grant Terminations

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Late in the evening on January 13th, 2026, with no warning or prior notice, the Trump Administration had cancelled $2 billion in funds to 2,700 separate mental health programs…

Another update to frozen grant data

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Today we have another update to frozen grants (follow-up to the last update). There are a few parts to this, but the result is a more reliable and complete list of frozen…

Fixes for frozen grants

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Today we applied a fix to the NIH grants data relating to frozen funding. Previously, a bug resulted in us incorrectly filtering out some candidates to be considered…

Updated list of terminated EPA grants

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Today we are releasing a new iteration of our EPA data with new methods and data sources for detecting terminated grants. Previously, we had relied on NGGS data alone, but…

Eric R. Scott, Mally Shan

Updated tracking of frozen (and unfrozen) funding

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Back in June, we added indicators for frozen grants in response to a wave of funding freezes at targeted institutions. This list of frozen grants was created carefully by…

Fix for NSF “current loss” value

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The “current loss from impacted grants” (i.e. sum of total budget - estimated outlays of all terminated grants) for NSF grants was corrected today. Previously it was…

NSF Grant Suspensions at UCLA total $90M lost in value

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The Trump administration suspended¹ 280 active² National Science Foundation grants to the University of California - Los Angeles this week. The total grant value from these…

Added indicators for reinstated grants

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Grant Witness is now incorporating restored NIH grants from court cases, starting with Massachusetts v. RFK Jr and American Public Health Association vs. NIH. (Thakur v. Trump…

Added indicators for frozen grants

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We have added frozen grants – those that are not receiving payments – to the Grant Witness database.

Updated estimates for NIH award outlays

We have updated our methods for estimating NIH award size and outlays in the Grant Witness database. The new approach provides better estimates of actual outlays and…

Trends in NIH outlays: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern funding drops to $0

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With the goal of following the money, we at Grant Witness are tracking trends in NIH outlays.¹ Because outlays represent the funds actually drawn down by grantees from NIH…

Tracking Overdue Funding

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The Grant Witness team has begun to track overdue funding in the RePORTER database. Normally, yearly grant renewals are fairly timely, especially for non-competive renewals.…

Anthony Barente

Over 700 and $1.7 billion in previously undisclosed grant terminations published by NIH

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726 additional additional terminated grants were reported by NIH this week, amounting to over $1.70 billion in total grant value, with $780 million remaining unspent. This…

Updates, May 12, 2025

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We have updated our terminated NIH grant tracker to reflect developments in NIH’s grant termination activities. Specifically, some previously terminated grants have…

Noam Ross, Scott Delaney, and Anthony Barente