When your nonprofit takes public funding, it may come with strings attached—how many and how strong depends on your relationship with local government, which has the option to cut those strings:

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/NE/20170718/NEWS/170719681, 

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2017/jul/20/hamiltcounty-commissireverses-nonprofit-overs/439196/