BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Maryland awarded a $6 million contract to a Baltimore City nonprofit that is struggling to provide its legally required tax returns, raising extensive transparency concerns among some accounting experts.
The We Our Us nonprofit, which was awarded $6 million by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in August, continues to lag in its financial reporting as it’s set to spend taxpayer dollars. After previous Spotlight on Maryland reports, the organization filed its 2023 tax form, but its 2024 tax form, which was due last year, is still not public.
“It’s unacceptable. If you’re getting taxpayer dollars, you need to have the capacity to report the spending on those dollars,” Linda Parsons, a professor at the University of Alabama specializing in nonprofit accounting, told Spotlight on Maryland. “The grantee should provide evidence that they are capable of executing the grant. At this point, it seems they have not provided evidence that they’re capable of executing the grant. I would not give them additional funding.”…