In 2011 the federal government gave the Oregon Cheese Guild a $50,400 grant to promote an Oregon Cheese Trail.
In 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded a federal grant to a California university to develop a video game to teach evolution.
In 2011, the Milwaukee Public Museum used a federal grant to make 3-D renderings of Egyptian mummies, in a display available for five months.
In 2011 the Department of Agriculture awarded grants to bed-and-breakfast inns in New York so they could buy locally grown produce.
The Trump administration will end grants to Hispanic-serving institutions of higher learning, because they discriminate on race.
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute paid out $10.4 million to its executives, yet still complains of losing $4 million in federal funds
In 2011 the United States government spent over twenty million dollars subsidizing cotton and its marketing abroad.
The National Institutes of Health actually spent money getting quail high on cocaine, to find out how cocaine affects their sex drive.
The head of a Utah nonprofit spent $2.8 million in federal and state grants to take one of the most expensive vacations imaginable.
Mahmood Mamdani, father of the Democratic NYC mayoral candidate, got two federal grants at Columbia University to further antisemitism.