GREATEST HITS

A curated roundup of the strangest, most baffling uses of government funding we've uncovered — you can't make this stuff up.

This site is in beta. As more data is compiled, we'll add more hits. Last updated June 14th, 2025.

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$620K GRANT

#TranscendentHealth - Adapting an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys

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Health and Human Services (HHS)
$801K GRANT

Structural Racism and Discrimination in Older Men's Health Inequities

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Health and Human Services (HHS)
$1.5M GRANT

Center to Advance Reproductive Justice and Behavioral Health among Black Pregnant/Postpartum Women and Birthing People (CORAL)

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Health and Human Services (HHS)
$830K GRANT

Still Climbin': A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Improve Coping with Discrimination, Address Medical Mistrust, and Reduce Health Disparities among Black Sexual Minority Men

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Health and Human Services (HHS)
$814K GRANT

A daily diary examination of the influence of intersectional stigma on blood pressure

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Health and Human Services (HHS)
$697K GRANT

Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$664K GRANT

Sustainable Racial Equity: Creating a New Generation of Engineering Education DEI Leaders

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$786K GRANT

Transforming Science Teaching and Learning through Empowering Teachers and Students as Climate Justice Action Researchers and Change Agents

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$2.8M GRANT

Addressing historic and systemic racial inequities: Coeur d'Alene land-based STEM education

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$500K GRANT

The Racialized Basis of Trait Judgments from Faces

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
$20K GRANT

Conference: Gender Equity in the Mathematical Study (GEMS) of Commutative Algebra

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Mineta Consortium for Equitable, Efficient, and Sustainable Transportation

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Department of Transportation (DOT)
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UC Davis National Center for Sustainable Transportation

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Department of Transportation (DOT)
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University of New Orleans, Center for Equitable Transit-Oriented Communities

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Department of Transportation (DOT)
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NYU, Connected Communities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation for Equitably Reducing Congestion

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Department of Transportation (DOT)
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Preparing manufacturing employers to be more inclusive in their hiring

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Department of Labor (DOL)
$250K GRANT

Paid leave programs based on racial equity

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Department of Labor (DOL)
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Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

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Department of Labor (DOL)
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ALIANZA NACIONAL DE CAMPESINAS, INC.

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Department of Labor (DOL)
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Justice For Migrant Women

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Department of Labor (DOL)
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Mango Processing Development Initiative

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African Development Foundation (ADF)
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Shea Butter Production Enhancement Program

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African Development Foundation (ADF)
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Yogurt Capacity Building Project

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African Development Foundation (ADF)
$19.8M GRANT

Restoring Resiliency in Thomasville's Traditional Neighborhoods

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
$500K GRANT

Green Jobs Corps: Growing a New Generation of Environmental Justice Problem-Solvers

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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City of New Haven Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Program

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
$6.9M GRANT

Teaching social and emotional learning and foundations of mental health development from an antiracist approach

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Department of Education (ED)
$10.0M GRANT

Decolonizing the curriculum

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Department of Education (ED)
$2K GRANT

Cross Sex Steroid Therapy and Cardiovascular Risk in the Transgender Female

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$49K GRANT

Understanding how chromosomal makeup and cross-sex hormone administration affect wound healing in mice

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$1.7M GRANT

China Health and Retirement Longitudinal study

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$120K GRANT

Personalized 3D avatar tool development for measurement of body perception across gender identities

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$363K GRANT

Effects of Social Networks and Policy Context on Health among Older Sexual and Gender Minorities in the US South

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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