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The $319 Billion Nonprofit Problem Nobody Is Measuring | Sequel Sunday
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- Aug 31, 2026
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Text the show! The government sends nonprofits roughly $319 billion in taxpayer money. But what exactly are taxpayers buying? Chad starts with homelessness programs and discovers an accountability problem much larger than any one organization: nonprofits and governments frequently measure activity rather than outcomes—and sometimes the available data can't establish whether programs succeeded at all. But this isn't an attack on nonprofits. Private philanthropy already has a powerful accounta...