Grant Watch

Grant Watch is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025. We currently are tracking terminations of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Our data on terminated NIH and NSF grants are collected from submissions from affected researchers as well as government websites and databases. We encourage researchers, program officers, and grant administrators to submit information via the forms here (NIH) and here (NSF) to help us keep our data up to date.

Grant Watch is a project of Noam Ross, Scott Delaney, Anthony Barente, and Emma Mairson, with input and support from additional volunteers.

For tips, questions, corrections, or press inquiries, contact us at info@grant-watch.us. You may also reach us on Signal at sdelaney.84.

Resources

Methods

NIH Methods

Data in our database of terminated NIH grants come from several sources. Among them are affected Principal Investigators (i.e., scientists), who we encourage to submit information on their terminated grants using a Google Form, which we have designed and published specifically for this purpose. We also aggregate data from news reports, social media, Doge.gov, USASpending.gov, NIH’s X feed, NIH RePORTER, and the HHS TAGGS system. The HHS TAGGS system provides data in two ways. First, it details grant-based financial transactions with information that is updated at least daily. Second, TAGGS administrators periodically (~1/week) release a PDF list of terminated grants. The TAGGS PDF list is one source of information in our database among several. Because we aggregate from multiple sources, our database includes grants not yet listed on federal government websites, including the HHS TAGGS PDF of terminated grants, and we believe it is the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource currently available that quantifies and characterizes terminated NIH grants.

NSF Methods

We currently aggregate terminated NSF grant information from Principal Investigators and other affected scientists, as well as from other user-submitted lists of terminated grants. We augment this data with information from NSF’s Award Search and USAspending.gov. At this time, however, no official government source provides information on which specific NSF grants have been terminated.

Transparency

To ensure each reader can objectively verify all details of our database, we list NIH- and NSF-issued grant serial numbers, which are unique to each grant, website hyperlinks to federal databases describing each grant, and many other details for each terminated grant. These efforts to ensure transparency are critical for multiple reasons. Foremost is that the NIH and NSF grant termination processes have been extraordinarily chaotic—far more so than is often reported in news articles. In many cases, the government has often provided incorrect and shifting information (knowingly or not) about exactly which grants were terminated, when, and why. Their estimates of the dollar value of grants terminated are even more unreliable. We also believe the government has restored a limited number of NIH grants that it previously terminated, often without providing public notice. As a result, our database may contain a small number of minor inaccuracies. To report corrections or ask questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal at sdelaney.84.