UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
$75M in claimed savings from 35 terminated grants
Total grant value: $123M
Agencies involved: Department of Energy, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Department of Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security, National Endowment for the Humanities, Department of Defense, USAID
Total Grants
35
Terminated by DOGE
Total Grant Value
$122.844M
Originally awarded
Total Claimed Savings
$75.293M
From terminations
Showing 35 of 35 grants
Terminated Grants
| Agency ↕️ | Grant Value ↕️ | Claimed Savings ↓ | Date ↕️ | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USAID | $30M | $23.7M | 3/1/2025 | The purpose of the new Soybean Value Chain Research (SVCR) Innovation Lab (IL) is to facilitate the development and dissemination of evidence-based technologies and practices for widespread adoption and build the capacity of public-private partners across soy market systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SS | View Grant → |
| Department of Energy | $20.542M | $18.999M | 10/2/2025 | THE OBJECTIVE OF THE ILLINOIS BASIN WEST CARBONSAFE PHASE III PROJECT IS TO GEOLOGICALLY CHARACTERIZE THE CAMBRIAN MT. SIMON SANDSTONE/EAU CLAIRE FORMATION STORAGE COMPLEX NEAR THE DALLMAN POWER GENERATION PLANT IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, AND TO SUBMIT THE REQUIRED UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL (UIC) | N/A |
| Department of Homeland Security | $40.307M | $11.263M | 4/8/2025 | to identify, execute, and deliver scientifically sound research that improves the resilience of the Nation’s critical infrastructure, and to transition outputs from that research to the Department of Homeland Security components, and the homeland security enterprise at large. | N/A |
| Department of Agriculture | $5M | $5M | 4/22/2025 | EXPANDS MARKETS FOR CLIMATE-SMART CORN, SOYBEAN AND SPECIALTY CROPS IN AL, IL, IN, MO AND IA AND SUPPORTS FARMERS WITH IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING OF CLIMATE-SMART PRACTICES. | View Grant → |
| Department of Energy | $2.585M | $2.52M | 10/2/2025 | THIS PROJECT PROPOSES CREATIVITY-BASED CO-DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATION OF INTELLIGENT MODELING, PROTECTION, AND GRID EDGE CONTROL TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE PROTECTION COORDINATION SOLUTION FOR THE BULK POWER SYSTEM (BPS) WITH HIGH PENETRATION (UP TO 100%) OF INVERTER-BASED RESOURCES (IBRS) TO ENSURE PO | N/A |
| Department of Energy | $3M | $2.343M | 10/2/2025 | BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - COLORADO (PUEBLO) REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THAT ENCOMPASSES THE PUEBLO REGION IN THE COLORADO STATE, THAT IS DESIGNED TO ASSURE A CA | N/A |
| Department of Energy | $2.939M | $2.315M | 10/2/2025 | BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - ILLINOIS BASIN REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THAT ENCOMPASSES ILLINOIS, INDIANA, AND KENTUCKY. THE GEOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCT OF THIS HUB IS BA | N/A |
| Department of Energy | $2.779M | $2.247M | 10/2/2025 | BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - FLORIDA REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COMPLETE A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A REGIONAL DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) HUB THAT ENCOMPASSES PORT SMITH REGION IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. THE GEOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCT OF THIS HUB IS | N/A |
| Department of Energy | $1.984M | $1.494M | 10/2/2025 | ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATION OF WASTEWATERS WITH A FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS THE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT ARE TO ADVANCE THE CHARACTERIZATION OF COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUAL EFFLUENTS, AND TO ILLUSTRATE THE USE OF SUCH CHARACTERIZATION TO DETERMINE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY. | N/A |
| Department of Homeland Security | $2.111M | $1.276M | 3/17/2025 | Best Practices for Reintegration Programming for Returning Spouses and Children | View Grant → |
| Department of Defense | $1.997M | $1.063M | 3/23/2025 | Sustainable Power for Decarbonization of Naval Vessels | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.579M | $0.531M | 4/8/2025 | Implementing the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.65M | $0.468M | 4/28/2025 | Beyond Visuals: Improving Accessibility of Data Curation and Multi-Modal Representations for People of all Abilities through Reproducible Workflows | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.421M | $0.317M | 4/28/2025 | Unbiased AI for Poetry Analysis: Toward Equitable and Diverse Digital Libraries | View Grant → |
| Department of Energy | $0.55M | $0.27M | 10/2/2025 | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN W/NREL: NEW AWARD DE-FOA-0002051 ATLANTIS PHASE II PROJECT TITLE: WIND ENERGY WITH INTEGRATED SERVO-CONTROL (WEIS): A TOOLSET TO ENABLE CONTROLS CO-DESIGN OF FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY UNDER ATLANTIS PHASE I, THE WIND ENERGY WITH INTEGRATED SERVO-CONTROL (W | N/A |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.248M | $0.23M | 4/28/2025 | Implementing assessment tools for library impact on students’ academic success | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.4M | $0.199M | 4/8/2025 | Empowering Libraries with Conversational AI | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.147M | $0.147M | 4/4/2025 | The collection of twenty oral histories with African American elders and first responders, and the facilitation of three community archive creation events, to document participants’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The oral histories and digitized objects would be made available online via | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.15M | $0.137M | 4/28/2025 | National Forum to Connect and Advance Library Makerspaces | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.143M | $0.136M | 4/8/2025 | Consortial Collaboration for Academic Library Leadership Success (CCALLS) | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.123M | $0.121M | 4/8/2025 | Chicago in the Year 2000: Preserving the voices and sounds of Chicago | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.499M | $0.12M | 4/8/2025 | Promoting Computational Thinking Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Teens through Accessible Library Makerspaces | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.174M | $0.067M | 4/8/2025 | Individualized, Equity-Focused Evaluation of Public Library Makerspaces | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.15M | $0.067M | 4/8/2025 | Libraries as Partners for Emergency Response and Preparedness in Times of Crisis | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.06M | $0.055M | 4/4/2025 | A foundations project to develop a portal of women in science, starting with domestic science department collections held at the University of Illinois (UI) and University of Minnesota (UM). The work would include digitizing 21 linear feet of collections and creating partnerships, workshops, protoco | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.3M | $0.049M | 4/4/2025 | The digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Illinois newspapers with a focus on suburban areas and southern regions of the state. | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.417M | $0.045M | 4/8/2025 | Strengthening Public Libraries' Information Literacy Services Through an Understanding of Knowledge Brokers' Assessment of Technical and Scientific Information | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.095M | $0.041M | 4/4/2025 | Archaeological research at the ancient Native American center of Cahokia resulting in tribal outreach and scholarly publications and presentations (24 months). | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.075M | $0.033M | 4/4/2025 | The development of a method to computationally identify the paratextual elements within the digitized book collections in the HathiTrust Research Library. | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.058M | $0.014M | 4/4/2025 | A pilot project to create a digital collection of 20 African Arabic manuscripts from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University with images, translations, and brief essays. | View Grant → |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $0.248M | $0.013M | 4/8/2025 | Email Archiving in PDF: From Initial Specification to Community of Practice | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.007M | $0.007M | 4/4/2025 | To support the open access edition of Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South by Candace Bailey. | View Grant → |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $0.007M | $0.007M | 4/4/2025 | To support the open access edition of <em>Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond</em> by Nancy Yunhwa Rao. | View Grant → |
| Department of Energy | $0.1M | $0M | 10/2/2025 | NEW AWARD - DE-FE0032219 - UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS TITLED: ''ENGINEERING-SCALE TESTING OF THE BIPHASIC SOLVENT BASED CO2 ABSORPTION CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY AT A COVANTA WASTE-TO-ENERGY FACILITY'' | N/A |
| USAID | $4M | $0M | 3/1/2025 | Award Associate Award to Soy IL for purpose of creating and implementing tools for scaling of innovations. Associate Award Innovation to Impact 2.0. | View Grant → |