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If you’re merely shocked at the “crap” expenditures recently uncovered by DOGE announcements, you are way behind the curve of the massive industry that is the NGO / nonprofit space in the US. First, keep in mind that Americans reported “Charitable Giving” totaling $557 billion. This is mostly from wealthy donors who deduct this amount from their income to showcase their goodness. This means that income tax on $557 billion is not paid. Call it at least $167 billion in lost tax revenue.
Theoretically this goes to good causes, but in practice, like much in government, a lot is wasted. Take for example Kids in Crisis of Greenwich CT (KiC). Their 2023 form 990 tax return shows they received government grants of $3.2 million and private contributions of $2.7 million. So all in KiC got around $4 million in tax payer dollars, both directly and in lost tax revenue.
KiC has a long history and probably does some very good work helping runaways and other homeless children. But prior to the Biden administration they received far less in government grants, and those totaled $974k in 2016, $649k in 2017, and $731k in 2018 rising to a high of $1MM in 2020. Their 2019 tax forms even detail the source of all the government grants, and of the $854k in government grants, the federal government provided only $200k ($300k came from the Town of Greenwich?).
In FY 2022, that all changed. The Biden administration Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded KiC $2 million. This jumped to $3.5 Million in 2023, and $2.2 million in 2024. In total, so far KiC got $7.6 million from HHS. This money was earmarked under two $7 billion a year programs 93.676 – Unaccompanied Children Program and 93.566 – Refugee and Entrant Assistance. So thanks to Uncle Sam, KiC went from spending $3.4 million in 2019 to $5.5 million in 2023.
Much of the KiC annual reports are dedicated to listing the names of the proud tax-avoiders, but the reports also show that in FY 2019, KiC provided 1,888 shelter bed-nights and medical services for 82 children under 18. In 2019, this “Safe Haven” service was provided at a cost of nearly $2.2 million, or roughly $1,137 per bed-night or $26k per person. Perhaps not the most efficient use of money.
But in FY 2023, with the new found help from Uncle Sam, KiC provided 1,687 bed-nights at a cost of $3 million, or $1,775 per bed night. Costs went up by 56%, inflation was 21%. Assuming the same average of 30 nights per stay, that $3 million served 57 people at a cost of $52,631 each. Put another way, costs went up 36% and services went down 11%.
In addition, KiC provides counseling services. The expenditures for this went up from $1.7 million to $2.5 million, a 47% increase. Data is more sketchy here, but they mention reaching 3,000 students in “teentalk” programs plus 1,200 students in individualized one-on-one sessions. Assuming each of the 1,200 received three 45 minute sessions and adding in the 3,000 teen talk sessions, those sessions averaged $500 per hour, providing “LGBTQ+ teens a welcoming weekly safe space and activities” and reaching “young minds with early intervention support.”
Data on the efficacy of such programs is scarce, and while KiC assures us that “Every policy and program we measure now includes data broken down by demographics, including race,” they don’t share any of this data. Data on mental health intervention is generally provided by mental health professionals who are incented to show their own results in a positive light. However research shows poor agreement among mental health experts on the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions, with as few as 4% agreement on the diagnosis of common depression. In fact, many even question whether the mental health professions constitute a “science” at all, and if results are any indication, the profession is a failure.
KiC spends most of its funds on salaries. Of $6.2 million total in FY 2023, only $77,675 went towards food and resident expenses, while $1.2 million (19%) went to the salaries of management, and an additional $4.3 million went to other salaries and pay for mental health counseling.
In other words, around $5.5 million, or 89% of the funds raised go to people whose life revolves around supporting the welfare state and questionable mental health practices. If this ratio holds for the rest of the $7 billion in refugee services from HHS, then the vast majority of those funds go to people who benefit from encouraging and supporting illegal immigration. No doubt they are incensed by DOGE and would vote for whichever party would continue to fund their livelihood.
In fact, much of the roughly $7 billion spent by HHS on just the two 93.676 and 93.566 programs either directly or indirectly (through state agencies) goes to nonprofit organizations like KiC, which have little or no oversight on how they spend their money. Many of these nonprofits, like the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, which got over $1.5 billion from Uncle Sam are even providing legal services in foreign countries including Hondouras, Kenya, Jordan, Lebanon and Mexico, helping people “navigate” (aka skirt) American immigration regulations which are supposed to help true asylum seekers and not economic refugees.
Note that in 2023, most (69%) asylum claims heard by the courts were rejected, but given only 50,000 such hearings, it’s clear that most of the 250,000 a month people encountered by border officials never showed up for their asylum hearings because their claims of asylum, which led to their “release” as ordered by the Biden administration are bogus.
So over the last 4 years, the Biden administration has been directing untold resources to help subvert US immigration law through many organizations, including ones that did not get government grants, but which are still spending your tax dollars (through tax deductions) to create a refugee crisis as well as a gender crisis and a mental health crisis in the US.
A suggestion for DOGE might be to examine the lobbying and related activities of nonprofits like KiC, IRAP and USCRI. It’s a free country, but we should not support political lobbying and agendas using tax dollars, especially when much of their activity supports an ongoing refugee crisis.
