text: I could start out with my former church, the Catholic Church for one. I will mention that politicians are supporters of budgeting funds for church's to administer social service programs in the community because it saves money that the state would have to pay to have more hired staff in these positions to do it and have to put them on the state payroll with all the benefits. There are many news stories over the years on this topic but basically it is an accepted practice to  financially help to administer some of these church programs for the public benefit. Perhaps you are not familiar with the long time practice since a lot of those programs run by the church's are located in the bigger cities. Hospitals like Providence in Anchorage that I recall when I was working was non-profit Catholic run hospital but they may not be now, don't know, but when I was working they got state and federal money to help with the costs of  providing patient care to the community.