Explosive report shows terror-linked CAIR–CA misused millions, hid lobbying, and funded radical operations while Uuder federal probe.

CAIR funded jihadis behind violent antisemitic protests.

For decades, the terror linked group CAIR has been actively working towards “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. This is their stated mission by objective. And for years my colleagues and I have reported, exposed, and laid bare their treachery and destruction. The worse and more pervasive their actions, the more the Democrats and their media monkeys lauded and exalted them while demonizing us.

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: CAIR–California Exposed for $27 Million in Taxpayer-Funded Abuse, Illegal Lobbying, and Extremist Political Operations

By: Amy Mek, RAIR Foundation, November 18, 2025:

CAIR–California took nearly $27 million in taxpayer money, delivered a fraction of the services it was funded for, concealed millions in lobbying, falsified federal tax forms, funneled refugee funds back into its own offices, and used public grants to support Hamas-aligned activism — all while under active federal investigation. This is not mismanagement. This is a taxpayer-funded political machine hiding behind a 501(c)(3).

The largest Islamic political organization in America — CAIR–California — has been caught in what may be one of the most brazen cases of public-fund abuse, undisclosed lobbying, and extremist-aligned political activity ever uncovered inside a U.S. nonprofit.

A newly released 14-page investigative report by Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN) reveals that CAIR-CA has misused, diverted, or concealed tens of millions of taxpayer dollars while simultaneously elevating Hamas-aligned activists and interfering in U.S. political processes — all under the legal protection of a 501(c)(3). The report draws on Public Records Act disclosures, financial audits, internal CAIR accounting patterns, and formal state and federal complaints, documenting a systemic pattern of deception.

Since 2022, CAIR-CA has taken in over $26.9 million in taxpayer funding, watched its own revenue nearly double, and yet delivered virtually none of the services it was paid to provide. In just one year, CAIR-CA’s annual revenue skyrocketed from $9 million in 2022 to $17.4 million in 2023 — a doubling driven almost entirely by taxpayer-funded grants. This growth coincided precisely with large infusions of federal Afghanistan-related funding and California’s “Stop the Hate” program, both of which CAIR quickly converted into internal cash-flow streams and political resources.

Instead, millions appear to have been self-dealt, secretly redirected, or funneled into illegal lobbying and political organizing. The report also shows CAIR-CA manipulated its public reporting to erase entire categories of government funding, subgrants, and related-party transactions, hiding the true scale of these internal money flows from the IRS and state regulators.

And despite being under federal and state investigation, the group continues to receive more public money. In July 2025, the Trump administration approved another $10 million in federal trust-fund grants for CAIR, even while the DOJ and California FPPC investigations were still active — a stunning oversight failure that allowed CAIR to expand its political operations using taxpayer dollars.

Welcome to the CAIR machine — a political empire operating with taxpayer cash, zero accountability from our government, and decades of extremist baggage the media refuses to expose.

KEY FINDING #1 — CAIR Misused Millions Meant for Afghan Refugees

In 2021–2023, the United States awarded CAIR-Los Angeles $7.2 million specifically to provide legal aid to 1,800 Afghan refugees — people fleeing Taliban rule after the disastrous Biden withdrawal.

According to CAIR’s own filings, they delivered services to:

Only 177 Afghan refugees — just 9.8% of what they were funded to do

20 Afghan naturalization applicants out of 172 total

74 Afghan immigration applicants out of 137 total

The rest of the taxpayer-funded help went to:

Mexican nationals

Chinese nationals

Russians

Iranians

— all populations explicitly prohibited by the federal grant. Many of these individuals were citizens of nations considered adversarial or high-risk by U.S. intelligence assessments, which raises further national-security concerns about why CAIR opted to serve these groups instead of the intended Afghan population.

In total, more than 70% of all individuals served under the Afghan-only grant were not Afghan refugees — a direct violation of federal grant terms. CAIR-CA even provided naturalization services to 42 Mexican nationals — more than twice the number of Afghan refugees who received the same service.

In other words: Funds meant for Afghan war refugees who were allowed to come to America after helping our military were illegally used for entirely different immigrant populations — including nationals of hostile foreign governments. The report shows these misallocations were not isolated errors but repeated quarter after quarter, reflected in every set of CAIR’s ALSP filings.

This alone triggers potential violations of the False Claims Act, federal grant law, and criminal fraud statutes.

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KEY FINDING #2 — CAIR-CA Diverted $3.6 Million in a Circular Money Scheme

The Afghan grant required CAIR-CA to distribute at least $5 million to approximately 40 independent service providers.

Instead, CAIR secretly diverted $3.6 million back into its own Los Angeles office, despite CAIR-LA not being a separate legal entity.

This is a circular self-payment scheme — a classic red flag for:

Self-dealing

Conflict of interest

Grant fraud

Books-and-records falsification

The diversion was so blatant that CAIR listed itself both as the “grantee” and the “sub-grantee” on official documents, falsely presenting an internal transfer as if it were an external partnership. The report also notes that CAIR-LA lacked independent legal or tax status, meaning the subgrant did not — and could not — meet federal requirements.

The documentation shows CAIR was effectively paying itself with federal cash while claiming those funds were being used by “external subgrantees.”

If any other nonprofit attempted this, the DOJ would already be issuing subpoenas.

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KEY FINDING #3 — CAIR Hid Over $3.13 Million in Lobbying Expenses

For ten years, CAIR-CA reported $672,000 in lobbying to the IRS.

But their actual expenditures exceed $3.8 million — a fivefold difference.

Meaning 78% of CAIR’s lobbying was concealed from federal regulators. At the same time, CAIR-CA:

Was not registered as a lobbying employer in California

Was not registered at the federal level

Continued receiving federal grants (which cannot be used for lobbying)

Organized legislative campaigns while portraying itself as a humanitarian nonprofit

The organization actively pushed political outcomes such as legislative redistricting maps and opposition to antisemitism-related protections in California schools, all while receiving federal funding.

This likely violates:

The Political Reform Act

The Lobbying Disclosure Act

IRS 501(c)(3) restrictions

31 U.S.C. §1352 (prohibiting use of federal funds for lobbying)

This type of concealment is not an accounting error; it is an intentional misrepresentation. The report emphasizes that CAIR’s undeclared lobbying costs surged at the exact moment its federal funding increased, suggesting a direct commingling of taxpayer dollars with political influence campaigns.

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KEY FINDING #4 — CAIR-CA Filed False and Misleading Federal Tax Forms

The report documents extensive concealment in CAIR-CA’s IRS Form 990 filings:

Millions in government grants were hidden under vague “contributions”

Required subgrant disclosures were omitted

Schedule I vanished entirely in 2023

Related-party transactions were concealed, hiding the true flow of taxpayer money

In addition, CAIR removed Schedule R disclosures, hiding the financial relationships between CAIR-CA an