Beyond the impact of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, some 14,000 agency employees and foreign contractors as well as hundreds of thousands of people receiving aid abroad — many American businesses, farms and nonprofits — say the cutoff of U.S. money they are owed has left them struggling to pay workers and cover bills. Some face financial collapse.

U.S. organizations do billions of dollars of business with USAID and the State Department, which oversee more than $60 billion in foreign assistance. More than 80% of companies that have contracts with USAID are American, according to aid data company DevelopmentAid.

President Donald Trump stopped payment nearly overnight in a Jan. 20 executive order freezing foreign assistance. USAID Stop-Work, a group tracking the impact, says USAID contractors have reported that they laid off nearly 13,000 American workers. The group estimates that the actual total is more than four times that.

Here are some of the livelihoods being upended:

Crop innovation work

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a lab that works with processers, food manufacturers and seed and fertilizer companies to expand soybean usage in 31 countries, is set to close in April unless it gets a last-minute reprieve.

Peter Goldsmith, director and principal investigator at the Soybean Innovation Lab, said the group has helped open international markets to U.S. farmers and made the crop more prevalent in Africa.

For Goldsmith, that kind of steady partnership built on trade and U.S. foreign aid offers the best way to wield U.S. influence, he said.

refugee mission imperiled

For nonprofits working to stabilize populations and economies abroad, the U.S. was not only the biggest humanitarian donor but an inextricable part of the whole machinery of development and humanitarian work.

Among them, HIAS, a Jewish group aiding refugees and potential refugees, is having to shut down “almost all” of its more than 120-year-old mission.

The Maryland-based philanthropy was founded by Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe. Its mission in recent decades has broadened to include keeping vulnerable people safe in their home country so they don’t have to flee, said HIAS President Mark Hetfield.

Hetfield said the first Trump administration saw the wisdom of that effort. Hias experienced some of its biggest growth during Trump’s first term as a result.

But now, Trump’s shutdown of foreign assistance severed 60% of HIAS’s funding, overnight. The group immediately started furloughs among its 2,000 direct employees, operating in 17 states and 20 countries.

A supplier faces ruin

It takes expertise, cash flow and hundreds of staff to get USAID-funded food and goods to remote and often ill-regulated places around the globe. For U.S. companies doing that, the administration’s only follow-up to the stop-work orders it sent out after the money freeze have been termination notices — telling them some contracts are not only paused, but ended.

Farmers’ market share

Tom Waters, a seventh-generation farmer who grows corn, soybean and wheat near Orrick, Missouri, says feeding people abroad is how the American farmer stabilizes things across the world. “Because we’re helping them keep people’s bellies full.” USAID-run food programs have been a dependable customer for U.S. farmers since the Kennedy administration.