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USAID cuts and NGOs

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In 2025 the United States, until then the largest donor in the world, blocked and then cut most of its foreign aid and closed USAID, its cooperation agency. This page shows how much money reached the NGOs in the atlas before and after, which organisations depended most on those funds, and whether other donors filled the gap. We report facts with their source, not judgements on government choices.

What happened

• 20 January 2025. The executive order 14169 suspends for 90 days new commitments and payments of development aid, pending a review of programmes.
• 10 March 2025. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces that 83% of USAID programmes are being cancelled and the remaining ones will move to the State Department (Congressional Research Service).
• 1 July 2025. USAID stops managing aid; the remaining programmes move to the State Department (Anadolu). For this reason we always add the two administrations together: looking at USAID alone would overstate the decline.
• 24 July 2025. The Rescissions Act revokes about 8 billion dollars already appropriated for foreign aid.

The decline is not limited to the United States. According to the OECD preliminary data of 9 April 2026, in 2025 official development assistance from DAC countries fell by 23.1% in real terms, to 174.3 billion dollars: the largest annual drop ever recorded. The United States fell by 56.9%. All of the five largest donors (Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and France) reduced their funding, and together they account for 95.7% of the decline; humanitarian aid fell by 35.8%. For 2026 the OECD forecasts a further fall of 5.8%. Final data are expected in December 2026.

Payments to NGOs in the atlas

United States, named NGOs Other government donors

Reported by donors on IATI, in euros at the year’s average rate. * Current year, partial and not comparable.

The most exposed organisations

USAID and State Department payments divided by registry income for the same year (in brackets), for those receiving at least €1M a year. It shows how much an organisation relied on those funds, not how it is doing today.

Who received the most

USAID and State Department payments combined. They include funds later passed on to local partners. Part of the fall for individual organisations may come from hidden names rather than cuts: the entry does not reveal which NGOs they are.

Did other donors make up the difference?

In these data, other donors did not make up for the US decline. Same organisations and source as the payments above. European Union commitments are not included.

Humanitarian funding (OCHA)

Funding to organisations in the atlas recorded by OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service, in dollars. * Current year. Partly overlaps with IATI payments: do not add them together.

Sources and method

• Payments: those that USAID and the State Department report on IATI, converted into euros at the average exchange rate for the year. We count only recipients recognised as organisations in the atlas: private companies, UN agencies, governments and unrecognised NGOs are excluded. It is therefore neither the total of US aid, nor the total received by each NGO.
• Current year: at the end of October 2026 US data on IATI run up to June 2026. The current year is not comparable with full years.
• Hidden names: the United States does not disclose all recipients. Part of the payments is indicated only as "NGO - United States Redacted" or similar, and this part varies greatly from one year to another: in 2025 it was much higher than in 2023 and 2024. We show it in a separate column, because it is money that went to NGOs we cannot attribute to any profile. For this reason the decline of a single organisation may be smaller than it appears. We do not count the much broader entry "USAID redacted this field", which does not say what type of recipient it is.
• Share of revenue: US payments for the year divided by the total revenue of the same year, using only revenue from an official register. It is an indication: a payment and its booking as income may fall in different financial years, and part of the funds is passed on to local partners. We exclude cases above 100%, which signal a mismatch between sources. A high share tells how much an organisation depended on those funds, not how it stands today.
• Other donors: government agencies of other countries that publish payments on IATI. The amounts of a single donor can fluctuate greatly from one year to another because of how they are recorded. European Union commitments are not included: they are spending commitments, not payments.
• Humanitarian funds: OCHA's Financial Tracking Service, in dollars, for the organisations in the atlas. It partly overlaps with the IATI payments: the two tables should not be added together.
• Cause and effect: the data show how much payments have changed, not why a single payment has fallen. Many 2025 accounts, especially US ones, are not yet public: the effect on revenue will be visible in the profiles when they arrive.