You Have No Idea Just How Much Money Government Pours Into Nonprofits

We tend to conflate the concepts of “nonprofit” and “charity,” but in the great Venn Diagram of life, the overlap is much smaller than you think. 

Charities are usually nonprofits, but nonprofits are often not charities at all. Many nonprofits are in fact extensions of the government—organizations that basically launder money from the government to perform services (or often funnel money) that would look wildly inappropriate if the government did it themselves. 

That’s what a new term has popped up to describe a large number of “nonprofits:” non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. They are basically government-by-proxy. 

We certainly saw a bit under the hood when DOGE started uncovering the nefarious activities of USAID, but that case is merely the tip of the iceberg.

🚨 MINNESOTA TAXPAYERS: You need to see this graph.

Here’s the part nobody is posting:
In just 10 years, state payments to non-profits and NGOs have quietly doubled from ~$11 billion/year → $22+ billion/year.

That’s now 1 out of every 3 dollars Minnesota spends — more than… pic.twitter.com/JH39U14um5

— Garage Logic (@GLpodcast) November 17, 2025

🚨 MINNESOTA TAXPAYERS: You need to see this graph. 

Here’s the part nobody is posting:

In just 10 years, state payments to non-profits and NGOs have quietly doubled from ~$11 billion/year → $22+ billion/year. 

That’s now 1 out of every 3 dollars Minnesota spends — more than we spend on roads, courts, or prisons combined.

The numbers don’t lie.

2015: ~26% of the budget 

2025: ~36% and still climbing

This isn’t “charity.” These are taxpayer dollars funneled through 501(c)(3)s  — often with less public oversight than direct state agencies. (all sourced from official MMB, NASBO, and Minnesota Council of Nonprofits reports).

The question isn’t whether some of these causes are worthy. 

The question is: Do you know exactly who is getting your money and why the percentage keeps going up every single biennium?

If you asked taxpayers where their money goes, I would wager that the percentage who knew that over 1/3rd of Minnesota’s state budget is funneled through NGOs. 

NGOs are essentially unaccountable. They file with the IRS, but the information is uninformative, and even the bureaucrats who are nominally in charge of keeping track of what they do really have next to no idea in most cases. That’s why so many billions of dollars turn out to be skimmed off the top or simply stolen. And the fraud that has been discovered—and it is not the bureaucrats or the government officials who are discovering it, because they are often in on it at the highest levels—is in itself the tip of the iceberg. 

There is organized crime in Minnesota, and you and everyone else knows who is involved.

When the state’s biggest lobbying firm run by Nancy Hylden employs Jacob Frey’s wife, heavily supports Keith Ellison and Tim Walz, and was also is the attorney for the Feeding Our Future… pic.twitter.com/xO01pExBPH

— Liberty4All (@LibertyUSA37) October 21, 2025

It really is only the grossly incompetent or reckless who get caught. Most have smart lawyers, deep connections that get them the cozy deals in the first place, and often employ relatives of policymakers. Minnesota’s huge fraud cases are all tied to the Somali “refugees” who are now major political players in our Democratic-Farmer-Labor party that basically owns state politics. 

Crude fraud like the Feeding Our Future, Autism services, Day Care scandals, and other uncovered scams are minuscule compared to the systematic abuse of the system. Many of the small charities and non-profits are genuine, but even large and well-regarded organizations are now so tied to the political system that the lines are blurred at every level. 

Revolving doors are one problem. Politicians can get nice sinecures after leaving office, or can park campaign staff at nonprofits to provide them with income in off years. In turn, the government serves as a sugar daddy, sending big bucks out the door to create programs with nice-sounding goals but which often make problems even worse. 

The problems, after all, are the excuse for the spending. Think, for instance, of the homeless-industrial complex. Or the migrant crisis, which the government has subsidized. The more migrants, the more money flows to the NGOs. 

If you wonder how and why so many illegal immigrants poured in during the Biden years, it’s simple: the government paid NGOs to facilitate it. Not to make an accusation, per se, but some people have noted that amid all the storm and strife coming from the Catholic Church about migrants, Catholic Charities fails to discuss the fact that billions of dollars from the government flow to the organization to fund…migrants. 

USAID and the NGOs it funded were heavily involved in the entire process of moving migrants from Central America all the way to the border. They provided food, supplies, “rape kits,” maps, buses, and lots of other support to ensure as many illegal aliens could travel thousands of miles from Central America all the way here, and then NGOs funded by the government got billions of dollars to take care of migrants once they crossed the border. 

And, of course, many for-profit businesses made bank by providing services and housing. All funded by the government, often using NGOs as cutouts. 

I don’t have the numbers from other states, but when you see that Minnesota now sends 36% of its budget to unaccountable organizations, or read that 10% of the US workforce is NGOs, you should see a flashing red light. 

Except most people have no idea. 

Tim Walz blames this on organized crime, and he is, in a sense, right. But the politicians are in on the schemes. Walz himself was. Our Attorney General, Keith Ellison, ran cover for Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, Ilhan Omar, and countless others helped create and maintain it. 

And none of them will pay a price, and NGOs will keep expanding.  

Politicians and NGO leaders use fancy words and promise results. They list the good causes they are supporting. They primp and preen about how much they care and what they are doing. 

And the results? A massive wealth transfer from taxpayers to an NGO complex that exists to support itself and keep its allies in power. 

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