KEY FINDINGS

• County records obtained by LAist show O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do directed an additional $6.2 million in taxpayer dollars to his 22 year-old daughter’s nonprofit without publicly disclosing his close family connection.
• It brings the total to $13.5 million in county funding — tallied from government records obtained and published by LAist — that Do is now known to have played a major role awarding to the nonprofit since late 2020.
• The newly-discovered grants were awarded by Do outside of public meetings. Details of these grants were also not included in public meeting agendas.
• Most of the funds were federal coronavirus recovery dollars earmarked to feed seniors and people with disabilities, according to the county’s grant agreements for the money.
• Out of more than 100 organizations and cities that received federal pandemic relief money distributed by O.C. supervisors in their districts, the nonprofit received the second-largest amount — all of it directed by Supervisor Do — according to a breakdown the county provided LAist. The funding exceeded awards to the O.C. Sheriff’s Department, and the cities of Fullerton, Santa Ana and Westminster, among others.

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