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Nonprofit organizations are making billions of dollars from border crisis Federal Funding, with their CEOs are raking in as much as $1 Million in annual compensation.
Money that is being distributed amongst NGOs to help fund the migrant crisis at the border has raised red flags for Americans whose tax dollars are going into the pockets of the organizations' chief executives.
The most recent data to reveal the astronomical amounts of federal funding being funneled into NGOs is from 2022. The migrant crisis on the border has been continuously surging over the years - with 300,000 monthly border crossings at the end of 2023, up 50,000 from the highest monthly report in 2022.
According to the data, based on the 990 Tax Forms of organizations exempt from income taxes, nonprofits received billions of dollars in federal awards - which were then used to compensate CEOs and fund questionable services like pet therapy.
'The amount of taxpayer money they are getting is obscene,' Charles Marino, former adviser to Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, said of the NGOs.
Three organizations - Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs and Endeavors - saw their combined revenue sky-rocket by $597 Million in 2019 to a whopping $2 Billion in 2022.
Global Refuge's CEO Krish O'Mara Vignarajah was compensated over $500,000 - and the organization received almost $250,000,000 in federal awards in 2022.
Endeavors, Inc. raked in almost $1,500,000,000 in funding as the CEO, Chip Fulghum, was paid almost $750,000.
The prominent NGO used taxpayer funds to offer migrant children 'pet therapy', 'horticulture therapy' and music therapy, according to The Free Press.
Christy Merrell, a music therapist, was paid $533,000 in 2021 alone for her services.
More recently it was revealed that 1,625 'people-plant interactions' we re paid for by Endeavors and 287 pet therapy sessions were conducted between April 2021 and March 2023, according to a PowerPoint presentation from the organization itself.
Endeavors' 2022 federal disclosure form also shows that it paid $5 Million to a company that provides fill-in doctors and nurses, $4.6 Million for 'consulting services,' $1.4 Million to attend conferences and $700,000 on lobbyists.
In 2021, the company spent $8 Million on housing migrants in hotels belonging to Esperanto Developments.
Southwest Key received nearly $800,000,000 in federal rewards in 2022 - and the organization's CEO, Dr. Anselmo Villarreal, was compensated over $1 Million that year.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...billions-off-of-the-border-crisis/ar-BB1mnIQi
Nonprofit organizations are making billions of dollars from border crisis Federal Funding, with their CEOs are raking in as much as $1 Million in annual compensation.
Money that is being distributed amongst NGOs to help fund the migrant crisis at the border has raised red flags for Americans whose tax dollars are going into the pockets of the organizations' chief executives.
The most recent data to reveal the astronomical amounts of federal funding being funneled into NGOs is from 2022. The migrant crisis on the border has been continuously surging over the years - with 300,000 monthly border crossings at the end of 2023, up 50,000 from the highest monthly report in 2022.
According to the data, based on the 990 Tax Forms of organizations exempt from income taxes, nonprofits received billions of dollars in federal awards - which were then used to compensate CEOs and fund questionable services like pet therapy.
'The amount of taxpayer money they are getting is obscene,' Charles Marino, former adviser to Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, said of the NGOs.
Three organizations - Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs and Endeavors - saw their combined revenue sky-rocket by $597 Million in 2019 to a whopping $2 Billion in 2022.
Global Refuge's CEO Krish O'Mara Vignarajah was compensated over $500,000 - and the organization received almost $250,000,000 in federal awards in 2022.
Endeavors, Inc. raked in almost $1,500,000,000 in funding as the CEO, Chip Fulghum, was paid almost $750,000.
The prominent NGO used taxpayer funds to offer migrant children 'pet therapy', 'horticulture therapy' and music therapy, according to The Free Press.
Christy Merrell, a music therapist, was paid $533,000 in 2021 alone for her services.
More recently it was revealed that 1,625 'people-plant interactions' we re paid for by Endeavors and 287 pet therapy sessions were conducted between April 2021 and March 2023, according to a PowerPoint presentation from the organization itself.
Endeavors' 2022 federal disclosure form also shows that it paid $5 Million to a company that provides fill-in doctors and nurses, $4.6 Million for 'consulting services,' $1.4 Million to attend conferences and $700,000 on lobbyists.
In 2021, the company spent $8 Million on housing migrants in hotels belonging to Esperanto Developments.
Southwest Key received nearly $800,000,000 in federal rewards in 2022 - and the organization's CEO, Dr. Anselmo Villarreal, was compensated over $1 Million that year.
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Article continues:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...billions-off-of-the-border-crisis/ar-BB1mnIQi
