Big update for taxpayers: soon my office is going to launch a website where you can see all the ways your taxpayer money is going to nonprofits. As a reminder, in the last two years, here are some examples that we uncovered of your money going to nonprofits: • The Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity was given $17,380.19 for hosting a “Queerceanera.” Of that, they spent $327.36 on Bud Light and Coronita beer, $2,500 on gift cards for “Queerceanera” attendees, and $14,126.84 on the venue, food, supplies, DJ, photographer, and travel for the event. They also paid $137.79 for five Lyft rideshares in New York City at 10:12 pm and 4:08 am on 4-5 March 2023, which included a two-hour stop at “the longest running lesbian bar in the country,” and $82.50 for dinner at a “restaurant in Baltimore” despite the receipt address being for a tobacco/vape store. • Love Inside for Everyone was given $4,000 to cover rental fees for a nightclub (run by the nonprofit’s director) to host monthly “diva brunches.” Over $90,000 was spent with no receipts or supporting documentation provided to the Department of Health funds to host Gay Pride Weekend in Jackson in 2023 • Love Me Unlimited 4 Life was given over $140,000, which they spent entirely on salaries with a requirement to hire people who identify “as Gender Non-Conformant (GNC), Aged 17-34 that are People with HIV (PWH), members of the LGBTQIA community, and/or at risk for acquiring HIV.” • My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) spent $7,000 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. • 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.” • El Pueblo received money from the AG's Human Trafficking Fund. El Pueblo then spent its time arguing against any immigration enforcement bills in the legislature. Bear in mind, all of this is legal. State bureaucrats signed off on it. But it's also incredibly dumb and the kind of waste that needs to stop. As auditor I don't get to run these agencies, but I will continue auditing to tell you what we find--and I have a feeling voters will elect leaders in the next election who will put a stop to all this nonsense. Mississippi sent more taxpayer money to nonprofits last year than we paid servicing our state debt. And before we launched this website, no one in state government could tell you where all the money went. Stay tuned for more details on the site.