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How much did it cost per recipient?

When there's a middle man between source and destination (e.g. government), that middle man absorbs cost. Source: tax-payers. Middle man: government. Destination: Some subset of the population selected by the government. I know this was organised by some charity, but when the government is involved, usually that middle mad is incredibly inefficient, and just wastes money all over the place. So the output from the source might be $100. The middle man will spend $40 just to pay for itself, and lose another $30 just by being government. The remainder will go to the subset selected by the middle man. Over a population and repeated cycles, the source runs out of money, the government increases its requirements and losses, and in the end there's nothing left for the selected recipients.