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What FHI 360 layoffs have meant for employees

The cuts went well past the U.S. staff. When FHI 360 announced its U.S. layoffs on April 10, 2025, The News & Observer reported that it had laid off more than a quarter of its 4,000-person global workforce since President Trump retook office and canceled over 70 projects. For anyone still at FHI 360, or weighing a return, the money shrank along with the staff. Revenue fell to $566.2 million in fiscal 2025, which ended September 30, from $820.4 million the year before, almost a third less, FHI 360's 2025 financial statements show, and personnel expenses fell to $176.2 million from the $234.3 million in FHI 360's fiscal 2024 statements.

USAID supplied 67.04% of FHI 360's revenue in its fiscal 2023, which ran to September 30, 2023, and the next largest funders, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services, 8.10%, its annual report's financial summary shows. Between 2013 and 2022, USAID committed nearly $3.8 billion to it, the third most of any nongovernmental organization, according to Congressional Research Service figures The News & Observer reported. In March 2025, FHI 360's line of credit was terminated, the fiscal 2024 statements say, and the FHI Foundation, a separate nonprofit FHI 360 set up in 1990, pledged $44 million that month to help with liquidity if needed. FHI 360 had used $10 million of it by June, and the foundation's contributions came to $17.0 million in fiscal 2025, against $5.0 million the year before.

If you worked on a program with a lifesaving waiver, the waiver didn't exempt it from the freeze, by FHI 360's account. Its March 14 statement said that month's furloughs were the result of the continued freeze on U.S. foreign assistance, including programs covered under lifesaving waivers whose funds had yet to be made available. In an account CBS News reported, FHI 360 told a February company meeting that staff changes had to happen because USAID wasn't making payments, and Lindsay Brown, who worked in internal communications from home in Little Rock, Arkansas, was furloughed soon after; she learned her last day would be May 2. In April a spokesperson told The News & Observer that FHI 360 had been paid for work done before February 13, after the Supreme Court ruled in March that a judge could order that money unfrozen, but was still awaiting full payment and hadn't been paid to resume projects that weren't terminated, lifesaving humanitarian programs among them.

Beyond the U.S. layoffs, the fiscal 2024 statements said that as of June 6, 2025, management anticipated a reduction of FHI 360's global footprint by 23 countries and expected operations to continue in 51. Spending on field office salaries and benefits fell to $80.9 million in fiscal 2025 from $107.7 million, the 2025 statements show.

FHI 360's retirement plan is a noncontributory, defined contribution plan covering substantially all U.S. employees who met its eligibility requirements, the 2025 statements say, and FHI 360's expense for it fell to $9.1 million in fiscal 2025 from $17.9 million the year before. If you were in it and your job ended, our page on retirement accounts after a layoff sets out what you can do with the balance.

The two state notices FHI 360 filed on April 9, both in our WARN tracker, list 404 jobs, short of the U.S. total in FHI 360's announcement the next day, and Brown's account shows that at least one person cut was working from home in another state. For staff based in Durham or Washington, North Carolina's unemployment page and the District's set out how benefits work in each, and for anyone who worked from home somewhere else, our state-by-state pages do the same.