According to the latest data, the U.S. Agency for International Development has formally terminated more than 5,300 awards. A Devex analysis of those awards reveals that 20 major U.S. contractors each lost over $100 million in planned but undelivered funding, offering the clearest picture yet of how deeply the U.S. foreign aid freeze disrupted the global development industry.
This exclusive report focuses specifically on U.S.-based for-profit contractors. Future coverage will examine nonprofit implementers and multilateral institutions, many of which also experienced deep cuts following the freeze.
For each for-profit vendor, we identified: how many awards were terminated; the total estimated cost of those awards; the amount USAID had obligated before cancellation, representing what was officially committed for implementation; the unobligated balance — or money that had been approved in principle but was never released; and the percentage obligated, a metric that shows how far along each contractor was in delivering their USAID portfolio before it was shut down.