The Cliff Tracker
The funding-cliff tracker. Watching money *stop* arriving in American science. Federal research grants that are ending with no continuation award visible in the public record — counted, cited, and corrected in public.
437Open cliff watches
3248Confirmed cliffs
$1.6BAt latest-award value, open cliffs
121Cliffs averted (corrections)
New cliff events per month
| Month | New cliff events |
|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 |
| Jul 2026 | 2695 |
| Aug 2026 | 30798 |
Open cliffs by state
| State | Open cliffs | At latest-award value |
|---|---|---|
| California | 570 | $281M |
| Massachusetts | 351 | $162M |
| New York | 330 | $132M |
| Texas | 203 | $74.7M |
| Pennsylvania | 192 | $81.4M |
| North Carolina | 156 | $98.2M |
| Maryland | 141 | $70.3M |
| Illinois | 125 | $48.4M |
| Ohio | 125 | $44.7M |
| Michigan | 119 | $50.4M |
| Washington | 105 | $43.6M |
| Florida | 86 | $36.6M |
| Georgia | 82 | $33.7M |
| Colorado | 81 | $27.3M |
| Connecticut | 80 | $33.6M |
| Missouri | 76 | $36.0M |
| Virginia | 70 | $22.3M |
| Minnesota | 67 | $33.3M |
| New Jersey | 59 | $21.4M |
| Tennessee | 56 | $26.1M |
| Wisconsin | 50 | $22.8M |
| Oregon | 44 | $15.0M |
| Arizona | 40 | $16.7M |
| Utah | 39 | $15.9M |
| Alabama | 38 | $11.6M |
| South Carolina | 34 | $16.0M |
| Indiana | 31 | $9.2M |
| Iowa | 28 | $10.6M |
| Kentucky | 27 | $14.4M |
| Rhode Island | 27 | $10.1M |
| District of Columbia | 21 | $6.1M |
| New Mexico | 21 | $7.6M |
| Louisiana | 18 | $8.7M |
| New Hampshire | 16 | $6.9M |
| Kansas | 15 | $3.4M |
| Maine | 14 | $7.3M |
| Nebraska | 14 | $4.3M |
| Arkansas | 13 | $6.6M |
| Oklahoma | 13 | $3.7M |
| Delaware | 11 | $5.9M |
| Mississippi | 11 | $3.2M |
| Hawaii | 9 | $5.3M |
| West Virginia | 9 | $2.2M |
| Puerto Rico | 7 | $5.1M |
| Vermont | 6 | $2.0M |
| Alaska | 5 | $2.2M |
| Montana | 5 | $2.4M |
| South Dakota | 5 | $2.1M |
| Wyoming | 5 | $3.2M |
| Nevada | 4 | $1.7M |
| Guam | 1 | $325K |
| Idaho | 1 | $135K |
| North Dakota | 1 | $468K |
| ON | 1 | $496K |
27 open cliff event(s) have no state in the public record and are counted in the totals above only.
Institutions with the most open cliffs
| Institution | Open cliffs | At latest-award value |
|---|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | 82 | $27.3M |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR | 76 | $30.2M |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO | 75 | $35.8M |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | 71 | $26.4M |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | 62 | $25.3M |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | 60 | $20.4M |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | 59 | $30.2M |
| UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | 55 | $23.2M |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES | 55 | $18.6M |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | 54 | $43.6M |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | 53 | $26.8M |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | 53 | $22.3M |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | 48 | $21.2M |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER | 48 | $14.3M |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH | 47 | $17.6M |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | 46 | $17.1M |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | 44 | $20.3M |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | 43 | $25.1M |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | 41 | $13.0M |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | 37 | $10.4M |
A "cliff" here is a cited public-record observation: the project's end date is near or past and no continuation award has posted, with a model confidence attached. It is never an assertion about an institution's condition. Current-quarter project-level detail is free on each state page; the full historical stream, webhooks, and CSV are the paid product. The NEW_MONEY feed is free.