USAID Recipients 2-13-25

These Are The Top USAID Recipients—From Religious Groups To Major U.S. Companies—As Trump Targets Agency

By Sara Dorn, Forbes Staff,Sara Dorn is a Forbes news reporter who covers politics. 

The USAID budget totalled $43.4 billion in fiscal year 2023, according to the Congressional Research Service, and approximately 130 countries received USAID assistance—Europe and Eurasia received 40% of the funding ($17.2 billion), since Ukraine was the top foreign recipient for USAID in fiscal year 2023.

USAID has distributed more than $30 billion in direct financial support to the government of Ukraine between fiscal years 2022 and 2024, according to the CRS.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) implement the majority (52%) of USAID programs, while public international organizations administer 34%, the U.S. government is responsible for about 10% and foreign governments implement about 4%, according to a CRS study of USAID non-military funding between fiscal years 2013-2022.

Among public international organizations, which are formed via a partnership between foreign governments, the World Bank Group was the top recipient of non-military USAID assistance, receiving more than $20 billion between fiscal years 2013 and 2022, followed by the World Food Program, which received more than $15 billion.

For-profit firms received 40% of all USAID NGO funding in the nine-year period included in the CRS report, with four receiving at least $1 billion.

Top Ngo Usaid Recipients (fiscal Years 2013-2022)

1. Catholic Relief Services: $4.6 billion (nonprofit)

2. Chemonics International: $4.5 billion (for-profit)

3. FHI 360: $3.8 billion (nonprofit)

4. Development Alternatives, Inc.: $3 billion (for-profit)

5. ABT Associates, Inc.: $2.6 billion (for-profit)

6. RTI International: $2.3 billion (research institute)

7. John Snow International: $1.8 billion (nonprofit)

8. Save the Children Federation, Inc.: $1.5 billion (nonprofit)

9. ARD, Inc.: $1.5 billion (nonprofit)

10. Jhpiego Corporation: $1.3 billion (nonprofit)

11. Deloitte: $1.2 billion (for-profit)

12. World Vision: $1.2 billion (nonprofit)

13. Mercy Corps: $1.1 billion (nonprofit)

14. ADCI/VOCA: $1.1 billion (nonprofit)

15. Population Services International: $1.1 billion (nonprofit)

Washington, D.C.-based Chemonics International, which works with developing countries to solve problems related to issues from banking to health care, said it will take “several cost reduction measures, including furloughing many of our staff,” in response to the USAID freeze as a result of an executive order Trump implemented during his first week in office pausing all U.S. foreign assistance for 90 days, NewsNation reported.

USAID has partnered with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. In 2022, the agency provided 5,000 Starlink satellite terminals manufactured by SpaceX to Ukraine.

Trump issued an executive order during his first week in office ordering a 90-day freeze of all foreign U.S. assistance, pending a spending review, with an exemption for emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt. Musk, who heads the newly created task force known as the Department of Government Efficiency, said early Monday in an audio discussion on X that he and Trump were working to shut the agency down, after Trump on Sunday criticized USAID, telling reporters it was “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.” USAID headquarters were closed Monday and employees were told to work remotely, according to multiple reports. Trump appears to be attempting to move the agency under the State Department umbrella and made Secretary of State Marco Rubio the agency’s acting administrator Monday, ABC News first reported. USAID’s website is down and the agency’s X account has also been deleted. Hundreds of USAID employees have reportedly been fired or furloughed, and two senior security officials at the USAID office were placed on leave after they attempted to physically stop DOGE officials from entering the agency’s offices and accessing classified material, CNN reported. The DOGE officials did eventually gain access to the classified materials, including intelligence reports, according to the Associated Press.

The Trump administration could face legal action alleging he doesn’t have the authority to shut down the agency without congressional approval, as some Democrats have argued.

These Are The Top USAID Recipients—From Religious Groups To Major U.S. Companies—As Trump Targets Agency (Forbes)

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