And every time you hear $1, the real number is $1,000.
$1 million —> $1 billion
Those people are so adept at hiding money flows that it becomes hard to trace. It takes skilled forensic accountants to untangle the financial webs they wove.
Israel has found trying to stifle the many-headed Hydra of foreign-financed NGOs is almost impossible. One proposed solution is an 80% tax on foreign donations to Israeli NGOs.
Likely stifling NGOs in America would be even more difficult as so many donations and redonations from government and NGOs to other NGOs are not illegal and difficult to make so.
All foundations, charities and NGOs should be taxed as ordinary corporations. Actual religious worship institutions excepted.