State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement.
Today State Auditor Shad White released a report showing taxpayer funds were spent on bloated employee salaries, gift cards, gym memberships, and other questionable expenses by nonprofit organizations receiving government grants from the Mississippi Department of Health (MSDH) and the Mississippi Department of Human Services (MSDHS).
“The state must stop handing taxpayer dollars to nonprofits with vague goals and then failing to monitor what these nonprofits do with it,” said Auditor White. “The government is wasting so much money.”
The report highlights how the Mississippi Department of Health was charged with using taxpayer funds to decrease diet-related diseases among “disadvantaged Mississippians.”
To achieve this goal, the Department of Health paid over $250,000 to a nonprofit called My Brother’s Keeper (MBK). Analysts at the Office of the State Auditor found questionable expenditures from this nonprofit, like:
- The nonprofit underspent on providing services and overspent paying salaries to its own employees. In total, 55% of the subgrant paid for MBK employee salaries and administration.
- Nearly $7,000 was spent on “incentive” gift cards reimbursed to MBK despite the Health Department not having any documentation showing whether these gift cards were distributed appropriately.
- Nearly $45,000 was spent on meal subscriptions, upscale grocery store gift cards, and gym memberships reimbursed to MBK despite the Health Department not having documentation showing whether these were appropriate expenditures.
Analysts at the Office of the State Auditor also noted other examples of questionable spending at other nonprofits, like:
- 100 Black Men of Jackson was given $40,000 to address health disparities among African American youth. The nonprofit spent $2,400 on gift cards, headphones and speakers, and nearly $2,000 on 90 t-shirts. These expenditures were unbudgeted with little documentation to show it was related to “addressing health disparities in African American youth.”
- The Juanita Sims Doty Foundation received over $2.4 million from the Department of Human Services that flowed from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. IRS records show the Executive Director of the nonprofit was paid $106,050 in 2022 and $118,447 in 2023. The Juanita Sims Doty Foundation website features the Executive Director’s philosophy that “one cannot make a good choice when historically, both choices end badly for people of color” as the basis of its “Racial Equity Work.”
The findings of this audit will be reported to the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office.
31 comments:
No shock at all!! That’s just a few
Shad and his team love small fish fries! I guess these are the battles his interns and young auditors find. has his office ever published a clear percentage or figure showing how the money they identify as misappropriated actually translates into lower taxes for Mississippi citizens, after factoring in the cost of running their staff and operations?
Is anyone really shocked? This is so common with these non-profits. They are taxpayer funded grift, right? The biggest one on Earth is the UN and on a smaller level Antifa and BLM, plus the SPLC and NAACP.
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@1207
Auditors just call balls and strikes. Taxpayers like me only save when the AG recovers misspent money or the legislature stops appropriating it.
For one, I appreciate the fact Shad leverages his office to put pressure on others to do their job and save me money.
As has been voiced before, if you wanna improve the health of the poor, exclude chips, candy and cokes from SNAP, but that is racists as has also been voiced before.
read the website of the juanita sims non profit.....its nothing but a bunch of race hustlers .
September 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM, it seems to me anything that would be classified as adult behavior is considered racist.
“one cannot make a good choice when historically, both choices end badly for people of color”...wow.
I've been a critic, but this might be his best work.
"...For one, I appreciate the fact Shad leverages his office to put pressure on others to do their job and save me money."
me, too!
I'm gonna need a definition of an upscale grocery store
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I assume he means one such as Whole Foods or Fresh Market. Unfortunately, we don't have "boutique" grocery stores here.
Would you rather Shadster NOT do this? Get one a day Shad. This is strong deterrent to such tomfoolery.
Looks like the report has a bunch of receipts attached at the end. It's Whole Foods and Hello Fresh.
Damn. Those people used my money to shop at "Whole Paycheck." Must be nice! Wonder if they stopped at the wine cellar while they were there.........
these two ''non profits''are just knock offs of the nancy and zack new TANAF racket .
millions stolen from the state and the feds and its still going on.
dont they ever learn?
@12:28 @1:12 Number of employees at Mississippi Office of the State Auditor in year 2024 was 153. Average annual salary was $66,368. Those are big salaries for a public office.
Meanwhile I'm an electrical engineer/controls programmer busting my ass, because if I don't get jobs and call on customers, guess what?! I don't make any money to pay my bills! Wow its crazy how this society works. I have to be a salesman, accountant, and engineer, and I'm making a little more than the average public auditor. Sounds like another tax on us Mississippians is funding all of these public salaries. I think we had a revolution over taxes and tarrifs. Y'all probably work in Gubment or profit off of it.
Gym memberships and food makes sense. We quit handing out welfare cheese years ago.
@236 you sound a little jealous. If you're selling computer equipment, it sounds like you're either not so good at your job or took a pretty ridiculous compensation package.
$66k is standard starting pay for a 22-year-old accounting graduate in the private sector. That's before their CPA bonus, too.
2:36
Do the AG's office next, but then compare that to the actual work they do
Shad and his staff issue a release about some smaller grifts they find: "LOW HANGING FRUIT!!!" "Small potatoes!" "BOOOOO!!"
Shad and his staff say silent while they investigate large schemes and frauds: "SHAD AIN'T DOING HIS JOB! BOOO!!!"
Lose, lose.
to 2:36......you an electrical engineering and only pulling down about $67,ooo?
i dont think i would want to admit to that.
as for SNAP........cut out the chips but exempt pork rinds.
graduated MSU in 2022, pulled in $74,000 last year. I'm doing okay, MY OWN engineering BUSINESS, got a house, wife and two kids. Try again 'tard. It's actually hard to make a living when you don't work for the government.
https://govsalaries.com/state/MS
Great job big ears shadrick
Brett , Phil, and Nancy are laughing at these small potatoes
Only 55% went to salaries!?! Man, that non-profit is really low balling themselves. Never heard of one who didn’t spend 80%+ of their budget on administrative salaries.
The Juanita Sims Doty Foundation has done an excellent job of addressing racist economic inequity in the salaries of executive directors. He/she is promoting the cause of equity Very nicely
Great work, Mr. Auditor. You've cemented my vote for your next step. (The Audit dept. should have a desk solely for close examination of every state grant, if it doesn't already have one under your watch.)
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