Taxpayer funding for nonprofits has more than doubled over the past decade, rising from $149 billion in 2016 to $319 billion in 2022. The Center Square examines how billions in government money are being distributed to nonprofits, including concerns over executive salaries, conflicts of inte…

(The Center Square) – In the past decade, government grants to nonprofits and the number of nonprofits that receive tax money has doubled, raising questions about whether public money is being wasted, an investigation by The Center Square found.

In 2016, federal, state and local governments gave $149.5 billion in grants to about 56,000 nonprofits registered with the IRS, an analysis of nonprofit tax returns shows. In 2020, that number went up to nearly $310 billion with more than 110,000 nonprofits receiving taxpayer funding. Two years later, the numbers peaked at $319 billion though about 10,000 fewer nonprofits received government cash, the data shows.

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