NIH Weekly Report — Jul 27, 2026 • Grant Witness

This Week’s Snapshot

Grant Witness has picked up on the following changes to the NIH grants, since the last report published:

Disrupted (terminated, frozen, and non-renewals): 2
Restored (reinstated, unfrozen, renewed after a delay): 2

If you want to compare the reported disruptions to cumulative weekly trends, Table 1 provides more context on which NIH grants have been terminated and reinstated since Feb 3, 2025.

With this week’s disruptions, the following is the total lost funding for NIH grants, based on the latest obligation data available from May 31, 2026: $506.56 Million

The states with the largest disruption of NIH grants are: New York, California, and Massachusetts

If you want to explore this topic further, Table 2 breaks down terminated, reinstated, and lost funding for NIH grants by state, specifically affected on and before Jul 27, 2026.

Additionally, for a breakdown of NIH grant disruptions across institutions, see Table 4, Table 5, and Table 6, which list the number of grants that were ever disrupted, are currently terminated, and are currently reinstated across grant recipients, respectively.

Weekly Terminations vs Reinstatements

The following visualization shows the weekly number of terminated and reinstated grants since Feb 3, 2025. For more information about how the statuses “termination” and “reinstatement” are determined along with their dates, see our methods.

To calculate the weekly change in grant disruptions, we calculate the total number of reinstatements (+) for that week and subtract the total number of terminations (-) from it.

The cumulative net terminated grants, which represents how many grants have been terminated since Feb 3, 2025, is calculated as the sum of the weekly changes. When this value is equal to zero that means all terminated grants have been reinstated.

Column chart of weekly grant disruptions since February 2025. Columns below the axis are that week's terminations, columns above it are reinstatements, and a line tracks the cumulative net number of grants still terminated. — Figure 1: Weekly grant terminations and reinstatements, with the running net total of terminated grants.

Table 1: Disrupted grants by week till the present day

Grants by State

Total disruption includes all grants that have been ever terminated. Even if a grant is currently reinstated, it is included in this total, since the grant had been previously terminated.
Currently terminated grants exclude any grants that have been reinstated.
Currently reinstated grants exclude any grants that have been terminated.
“Lost funding” is the amount of funding awarded to grants that was not paid out because of terminations, excluding reinstated grants.

Table 2: Terminated and reinstated grants by state

Grants by Type

In this report, we distinguish between the following grant types:

R Series: These grants fund independent research projects led by a principal investigator. These are the most common types of NIH grants. Funding goes towards research aims rather than training or career development.
T Series: These grants go to institutions to support training programs for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers. A single T grant will support multiple trainees. These grants fund stipends, tuition, and training activities (e.g. courses, workshops, conferences).
Individual Training / Fellowships (F Series): These are research training grants for individuals, rather than institutions. The goal of these grants is to help predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees gain skills needed for a successful research career.
Early Career (K Series): These are grants for individual researchers (usually postdocs or early-career faculty) to help them become independent scientists. They provide salary support and research funding.

The table below lists the number of currently terminated grants for each grant type from every state.

Table 3: Currently terminated grants by state and grant type

Grants by Recipients

Each table below lists the top 50 institutions. The export buttons cover only what is in the table — to work with every affected grant, download the full data for this report (CSV).

All Disruptions

The following table is ordered by which institutions had the most number of disrupted grants, which includes grants that are currently reinstated, since at one point that grant had been terminated.

Table 4: All disrupted grants by institution

Current Terminations

The following table is ordered by which institutions, as of Jul 27, 2026, currently have the most number of terminated grants.

Table 5: Terminated grants by institution

Current Reinstatements

The following table is ordered by which institutions, as of Jul 27, 2026, currently have the most number of reinstated grants.

Table 6: Reinstated grants by institution