Two things you should never take: Heroin, and federal money. Both are addicting and come with strings over you that you don’t want.
I’m on the director’s board for our church food pantry. The USDA offered us a program through a regional food bank that would have provided virtually all of our food needs for distribution. Just one minor catch; if we became involved in the program, we could not engage in any religious activity with clients during our distribution process. As an outreach ministry of our church, the spiritual component is just as important as the nutritional. They were asking us to compromise the core principle of the organization.
We said “thanks but no thanks.” We trusted that the Lord would provide all that we needed, and He has, plus some extra.
Sadly, my Catholic Church has been co-opted, and has all to often agreed to take the Federal money, strings attached.