The Trump administration’s push to align federal spending to the president’s agenda — which last week came with the striking freeze of grants and loans to a broad swath of the nation’s nonprofits — has sent shockwaves through the network of organizations that provide services to victims of gender-based and domestic violence.

The leaders of close to a dozen nonprofits who spoke to The 19th say they are worried that they will get caught up in President Donald Trump’s attempt to block federal funds from going to any group that supports diversity and inclusion; recognizes transgender and nonbinary people; or supports undocumented immigrants. Last week’s federal spending freeze, which left some of these organizations in the lurch as they tried to provide essential services to clients, drove home that the administration could, at any moment, pull the rug out from under them.

While a court order is compelling the administration to restore the flow of funds, many organizations are bracing for impact to the federal programs that fund their work, some of which are marked for review by the administration. Many have also begun to proactively edit their websites and public-facing materials, with one national group deleting a page of resources for LGBTQ+ domestic violence victims in hopes of safeguarding its funding. A third of the websites belonging to state coalitions of domestic violence nonprofits went offline last week; one director told The 19th her organization had done so to review its language following the funding freeze.

“Every organization that had funding from the federal agencies that had been listed — any federal government agency that’s funding domestic violence services — definitely felt like we were put on alert that our funding was in jeopardy,” said Dawn Dalton, the executive director for the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

In the aftermath of the federal funding freeze, White House officials made clear that they are continuing to review federal spending on activities that go against executive orders seeking to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs” and “gender ideology extremism.”

Read the full article about domestic violence nonprofits by Jasmine Mithani and Mel Leonor Barclay at The 19th.