Updates

Termination of AHRQ grants is the latest assault on health equity and the rule of law.

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The agency charged with finding ways to make American health care more effective has been gutted. Last week’s terminations are just the latest blow.

Jul 22, 2026
Noam Ross

Four-panel figure of images from the the House Science Commitee hearing, showing Rep. Whitesides (D-CA) displaying a Grant Witness plot of NSF award-making, and Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) displaying a Grant Witness plot of NSF cumulative obligations.

A Tale of Two Funding Charts

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National Science Foundation
Congress

NSF is spending money faster than it makes awards, but it is not investing in the future of U.S. science.

Jun 30, 2026
Noam Ross

Overdue Grant Renewals at NIH and AHRQ

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National Institutes of Health
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
funding delays

The government’s delays renewing in-progress research are leaving researchers in limbo.

Jun 23, 2026
Eric Scott, Noam Ross
 

NIH data updates

Newly-identified disruptions and updated financial data
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We’ve done a major overhaul on our back-end which identified a number of additional grants that had been disrupted. We held these until we could adequately review them and…
Jun 22, 2026
Eric Scott, Noam Ross

The NSF is on Track for its Worst Year in Generations

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National Science Foundation
funding

Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.

Jun 19, 2026
Noam Ross

NSF’s Halts in Grantmaking are Unprecedented

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National Science Foundation
funding

The National Science Foundation’s pause breaks decades of consistency and continuity.

Jun 16, 2026
Noam Ross

A screenshot from https://grant-witness.us/nsf-data.html showing the table of disrupted grants.

NSF grant data update

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We’ve taken lessons learned from revamping our NIH data and applied them to our NSF data pipeline. This brings a few important improvements.
Jun 16, 2026
Eric R. Scott

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

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National Science Foundation
terminations
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…
May 27, 2026
Noam Ross

Updates to NSF Funding Curves

data update
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…
May 19, 2026
Noam Ross
 

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…
Apr 29, 2026
Eric R. Scott
 

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…
Apr 23, 2026

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…
Mar 29, 2026
Eric R. Scott
 

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…
Feb 27, 2026
 

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.

Feb 24, 2026
 

$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.

Feb 10, 2026

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…
Feb 2, 2026
Mally Shan
 

Removal of court-reported reinstatments with no termination

data update
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…
Jan 30, 2026
 

Added NIH spending category predictions for recent grants

data update
We have added predicted NIH spending categories to grants in the Grant Witness database that do not yet have official categorizations from NIH.
Jan 23, 2026
Noam Ross
 

Updated list of reinstated EPA grants

data update
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…
Jan 23, 2026
Mally Shan, Eric R. Scott

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…
Jan 21, 2026
 

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…
Dec 12, 2025
 

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…
Dec 5, 2025
 

Updated list of terminated EPA grants

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data update
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…
Dec 3, 2025
Eric R. Scott, Mally Shan
 

Updated tracking of frozen (and unfrozen) funding

data update
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…
Oct 13, 2025
 

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…
Oct 8, 2025

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…
Aug 1, 2025
Mally Shan
 

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…
Jul 1, 2025
Noam Ross
 

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.
Jun 30, 2025
Emma Mairson
 

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…
Jun 9, 2025

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…
Jun 8, 2025

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.…
May 23, 2025
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…
May 20, 2025
Noam Ross
 

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…
May 12, 2025
Noam Ross, Scott Delaney, and Anthony Barente
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