USAID TERROR: Here’s The List of Terror Funders to Receive Billions of Surviving USAID Dollars

Surviving USAID beneficiaries…..over $2.5 billion of authorized funding to organizations that have previously supported designated terrorist organizations.

Terror Subsidizers to Receive Billions of Surviving USAID Dollars

By: Sam Westrop, Focus on Western Islamism, April 23, 2025

A State Department list of 898 approved government grants and contracts authorized by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) includes over $2.5 billion of authorized funding to organizations that have previously supported the charitable infrastructure of designated terrorist organizations.

In March, the State Department provided a document to Congress listing some 5,341 awards terminated as part of the administration’s decimation of USAID, alongside 898 surviving grants.

Surviving beneficiaries that have supported terrorist charitable infrastructure are set to receive, the Middle East Forum has found, a total of $2.5 billion across 103 awards [see Appendix], for projects that the USAID estimates will cost the taxpayer a total of $3.4 billion.

Some $200 million of these awards are earmarked for projects in Gaza, run by organizations with histories of involvement with Hamas proxy organizations or the Hamas government itself.

In addition, USAID has entrusted an additional $73 million to several of these charities for aid work in the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and a further $54 million in Islamist-run Syria.

On April 22, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned of a “sprawling bureaucracy” at the State Department that “created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America’s core national interests.”

This “sprawling bureaucracy” at USAID – and its parent organization, the Department of State – maintains long-standing relationships with USAID’s surviving beneficiaries. All are connected through the bloated, incestuous international aid and development industry.

This extends to shared staff. For instance, Sean Carroll, the director of one terror-connected grantee profiled below, ANERA, previously served under the Obama administration as USAID’s Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer. Similarly, senior officials of World Vision, another terror-connected USAID beneficiary also profiled below, have been recruited from USAID staff.

Today, USAID still seems to employ bureaucrats who are willing to look the other way as American taxpayers’ dollar subsidize terror infrastructure.

 

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