JAW-DROPPING: DOGE and HHS end $18M contract with NGO for empty migrant facility

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From NBC’s News4SanAntonio.com: SAN ANTONIO – As part of sweeping cuts across the federal government as Trump’s second term begins, a local organization has seen a major contract end.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said the Department of Health and Human Services had terminated a contract paying Family Endeavors $18 million a month to operate an empty facility in West Texas.

The organization is also known as Endeavors, and you may have seen its administrative headquarters and wellness center on De Zavala Road, where it has a cluster of buildings and storefronts.

DOGE focused on an overflow housing facility for migrant families that Endeavors operates in Pecos, Texas.

DOGE says the facility has been sitting empty while Endeavors has been receiving $18 million per month.

Endeavors, Inc. is one of the “non-profit” NGOs who made a massive amount of money during the Biden administration off the flood of illegal aliens allowed to enter the U.S.

The Free Press had reported in May 2024:

The Free Press examined three of the most prominent NGOs that have benefited: Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs, and Endeavors, Inc. These organizations have seen their combined revenue grow from $597 million in 2019 to an astonishing $2 billion by 2022, the last year for which federal disclosure documents are available. And the CEOs of all three nonprofits reap more than $500,000 each in annual compensation, with one of them—the chief executive of Southwest Key—making more than $1 million.

Some of the services NGOs provide are eyebrow-raising. For example, Endeavors uses taxpayer funds to offer migrant children “pet therapy,” “horticulture therapy,” and music therapy. In 2021 alone, Endeavors paid Christy Merrell, a music therapist, $533,000. An internal Endeavors PowerPoint obtained by America First Legal, an outfit founded by former Trump aide Stephen Miller, showed that the nonprofit conducted 1,656 “people-plant interactions” and 287 pet therapy sessions between April 2021 and March 2023.

Endeavors’ 2022 federal disclosure form also shows that it paid $5 million to a company to provide fill-in doctors and nurses, $4.6 million for “consulting services,” $1.4 million to attend conferences, and $700,000 on lobbyists. In 2021, the NGO shelled out $8 million to hotel management company Esperanto Developments to house migrants in their hotels. Endeavors, which gets 99.6 percent of its revenue from the government according to federal disclosure forms, declined to comment to The Free Press.

And now that the Endeavors facility is sitting empty, the federal government was allegedly still paying the organization a whopping $18 million per month. 

DOGE announced:

A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.

As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023.

Since March 2024, HHS has paid ~$18M/month to keep the Pecos facility open despite sitting empty.

With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually.

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Independent journalist Hernando Arce had started investigating Endeavors last summer.

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