The group taking the cut has the audacity to call itself “GiveDirectly.”
Via Detroit News:
The majority of taxpayer funds intended for payments to new mothers in Flint has flowed through a New York-based nonprofit used by Michigan State University to distribute the funds, and the group has taken a cut of the money. […]
The $306.5 million appropriated by Michigan lawmakers over the past three years to Rx Kids largely flows through a group called GiveDirectly. Michigan State University receives the taxpayer dollars, applies an administrative fee and then directs the rest of the cash to the nonprofit, which said last year’s state appropriation alone of $80 million would account for about 30% of its $270 million in revenue for the calendar year.
That’s a sizable increase from the year prior, 2024, when the group reported on its tax forms that about $21.1 million, or about 10%, of its total $206 million in revenue, was from government grants. GiveDirectly charges a 10% administrative fee for handling the Rx Kids program’s monthly payments to young mothers.
Read the rest at the Detroit News.
