They call themselves "non-governmental," but thousands of them run on government money: your tax dollars. NoMoreNGOs exposes the fraud, the waste, and the pipeline that sends public money to private organizations with too little oversight, and we're working to shut it off.
Improper payment estimates by program. 19 federal programs reported error rates of 10% or more, and six were above 25%. GAO's total doesn't even include some high-risk programs, such as TANF. Source: GAO-26-108694.
We get the numbers right on purpose. "Improper payments" covers all federal spending (most of it in Medicare, Medicaid, the EITC and SNAP), not just NGOs, and it includes errors as well as fraud. The point is that Washington can't account for where hundreds of billions go, and NGO grants are part of that system.
Charity used to mean private people giving their own money. Today a huge part of the nonprofit world is a middleman layer of government. Agencies hand out grants and contracts, the organizations spend the money, and the same organizations are often the ones expected to report their own problems.
When that layer fails, it fails big. Minnesota's own Legislative Auditor found that the state's weak oversight of one nonprofit, Feeding Our Future, "created opportunities for fraud." Federal prosecutors went on to call it the largest pandemic fraud case in the country.
The USAID Inspector General found that groups receiving U.S. foreign aid were contractually required to report possible fraud, and that most of them didn't. Foreign NGOs and UN agencies also pushed back on sharing information with investigators.
Every dollar that disappears into a bad grant was earned by a working American: a longshoreman, a nurse, a contractor, a small-business owner. We think they deserve to know where it went.
A nonprofit sponsor and the sites under it claimed to serve millions of meals to children during the pandemic, and many of those meals never existed. 79 people have been charged and more than 65 convicted. Founder Aimee Bock was convicted in 2025 and sentenced to 40 years, which she is appealing.
DOJ press release →The USAID Inspector General found that organizations receiving USAID money were required by contract to report potential fraud, and most didn't report it to the OIG. The IG also cited resistance from UN agencies and foreign-based NGOs to sharing information with investigators.
USAID OIG →A former executive of a Chicago-area nonprofit was sentenced to a year in federal prison for misappropriating nearly $1.9 million. The case was investigated by the AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General.
Oversight.gov →Over ten years, EcoHealth Alliance took in $115.7 million in government grants, about 86% of its total funding. In 2024 HHS moved to impose a rare five-year ban on federal grants to the group.
Capital Research Center →Stop funding organizations that get most of their revenue from taxpayers. If a service is a government job, government should do it in the open, and answer for it.
Post every grant, subgrant and contract to an NGO online in plain English, down to the final recipient.
When an IG or a court finds fraud, recover the money and permanently bar the organization and its leaders from federal funds.
Stop letting grantees police themselves. Require outside audits, and penalize groups that don't report fraud.
No automatic renewals. Every NGO program has to come back to Congress and prove it delivered results before it gets another dollar.
Give Inspectors General the staff and the access they need to follow the money, including overseas.
Look up any organization and see which federal grants and contracts it has received.
USASpending.gov →Check a nonprofit's Form 990: revenue, government grants, and what its executives are paid.
Nonprofit Explorer →See something? Every federal agency has an Inspector General hotline. Find the right one here.
Oversight.gov hotlines →Tell your Representative and Senators you want NGO funding cut and every grant made public.
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