Catholic Relief Services has been taking grants from the U.S. government, what it calls USG grants, since the early 1960s. In its 2011 annual report, CRS said it received $351,625,000 in USG grants. The money from the U.S. government represented 42.7% of CRS’s budget that year.
Many of the grants CRS received from the U.S. government came from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Others came from the Department of State, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Then-CRS President Ken Hackett told contributors in CRS’s 2011 annual report: “The gifts you shared with us totaled $224 million, which helped leverage another $611 million in resources from the U.S. government and other sources.”