DOGE lists $254,388 in claimed savings from National Endowment for the Humanities grant cut

DOGE listed this National Endowment for the Humanities grant record as cut on 2025-04-04, with $254,388 in claimed savings. Recipient: University of Chicago. Description: A collaborative project to digitize, georeference, and make maps and atlases of Chicago published before 1940 accessible online. The project would include 1,167 maps from the Newberry Library, 2,934 maps from the Chicago Hist. Principle treats this as an official DOGE claim until independently verified against USAspending, agency records, court filings, or watchdog findings.