tensorust/federal-grant-terminations-sample

Federal Grant Termination Ledger: free sample (Tensorust LLC)

Every grant HHS and NSF list as terminated, with the dollars obligated and the dollars left unpaid when the money stopped.

Headline: When a federal grant is terminated, the obligated money that was not yet paid out is what the recipient loses or must fight for in closeout.

This repository is a free teaser, not the dataset. It holds 25 example rows and a summary table with no names in it. The full file has 3,483 rows and is sold by Tensorust LLC: https://tensorust.com/datasets/federal-grant-terminations/.

Files here

file	what it is
sample.csv	25 rows of the full file (the same sample shown on tensorust.com)
summary_by_recipient_state.csv	row counts and totals by recipient state across the full file, no entity names (groups with fewer than 3 rows are folded into "Other")

Summary by recipient state (largest groups)

Recipient state	rows	Obligated (USD)
(blank)	1,667	1,345,131,506
TEXAS	171	5,704,431,219
NEW YORK	144	235,927,189
MASSACHUSETTS	119	172,764,549
PENNSYLVANIA	78	166,775,434
FLORIDA	77	2,496,399,495
NORTH CAROLINA	76	298,234,347
GEORGIA	71	1,162,959,024
CALIFORNIA	68	115,804,305
VIRGINIA	49	1,015,822,388
MISSOURI	47	768,873,456
OHIO	45	1,330,360,898
TOTAL	3,483	24,033,726,162

Full table: summary_by_recipient_state.csv.

What the full file has

• 3,483 rows
• Key fields: agency, opdiv, directorate, award_id, obligation_document, recipient_name, recipient_state, country, award_title, termination_date
• Parquet and CSV, a README with sources, method and limits, and the build script
• Free 25-row sample (no personal contact data)

Coverage: 1,816 HHS grants across 6 operating divisions (NIH, CDC, SAMHSA, ACF, FDA, CMS/CMMI), terminations dated 2025-01-28 to 2025-12-08; 1,667 NSF awards; 964 recipients. HHS list as generated Nov 6 2026; NSF list export 6/5/2025; built Nov 6 2026

Columns in the full file

column	meaning
agency	HHS or NSF
opdiv	HHS operating division (NIH, CDC, SAMHSA, ACF and so on); NSF for NSF rows
directorate	NSF directorate (NSF rows)
award_id	FAIN (HHS) or NSF award id
obligation_document	HHS obligation document number
recipient_name	Recipient organization, upper case
recipient_state	Recipient state (HHS rows)
country	Recipient country (HHS rows)
award_title	Award title
termination_date	Action date of the termination (HHS rows)
termination_basis	HHS stated basis: Presidential Action, Departmental Authority, Termination for Cause and so on
for_cause	HHS marked the termination as for cause
total_obligated	Total amount obligated on the award, USD
total_expended	Total expended as of termination, USD (HHS)
total_paid	Total paid as of termination, USD (HHS)
unliquidated_at_termination	Obligated money not yet paid out when the grant was terminated, USD (HHS)
pct_unpaid_at_termination	unliquidated_at_termination / total_obligated
source_list	Which official list the row comes from
award_url	Award page (TAGGS or NSF award search)

Get the full file

tier	price	includes
Termination file	$750	All 3,483 terminated HHS and NSF awards with obligated, paid and unliquidated dollars, basis, dates, and the recipient rollup. CSV and Parquet.
Closeout watch	$3,500 a year	Monthly refresh from both lists, new and removed terminations flagged (removals often mean reinstatement), per-recipient alerts for up to 25 institutions.
Portfolio license	$12,000 a year	Weekly refresh, joins to USAspending award history on request, internal use across research finance, legal and audit teams of a university system or funder.

Email mattbusel@tensorust.com with the tier and a billing contact, and we will send a proper invoice (ACH or card). The file is delivered once the invoice is paid. Details and the live sample: https://tensorust.com/datasets/federal-grant-terminations/. All datasets: https://tensorust.com/datasets/

Method and limits

The HHS PDF is parsed table by table (14 columns, header rows dropped); dollar strings are parsed, a dash is zero. The NSF CSV is read as published. Both are stacked into one table; recipient names are upper-cased for the rollup, so a recipient spelled two ways appears twice.

Not every terminated federal grant: only HHS and NSF publish lists, and these are the agencies' own lists (grants later reinstated by court order may still appear or may have been removed). NSF does not publish paid or unliquidated amounts, so those are blank for NSF rows. Not a legal finding about any termination and not a list of people.

Sources

• HHS TAGGS, HHS Grants Terminated list (PDF, generated Nov 6 2026), https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf
• NSF terminated awards list (CSV, export date 6/5/2025), https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/NSF-Terminated-Awards.csv, linked from https://www.nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities

License

The sample and summary here are free to view, analyze and cite with attribution to "Tensorust LLC, https://tensorust.com/datasets/federal-grant-terminations/". The full dataset is licensed separately per tier. No resale or redistribution of Tensorust data without a written license.

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