; or (iii) the actual or suspected religious motivation for the organization’s religious exercise. (2) Other definitions (A) Federal financial assistance The term Federal financial assistance means financial assistance from the Federal Government that non-Federal entities receive or administer through grants, contracts, loans, loan guarantees, property, cooperative agreements, food commodities, direct appropriations, or other assistance, but does not include a tax credit, tax deduction, or guaranty contract. (B) Pass-through entity The term pass-through entity means an entity, including a nonprofit or nongovernmental organization, acting under a grant, contract, or other agreement with the Federal Government or with a State or local government, such as a State administering agency, that accepts direct Federal financial assistance as a primary recipient (such as a grant recipient) and distributes that assistance to other organizations that, in turn, provide government-funded social services through a social services program. (C) Program The term program includes the services provided through that program. (D) Religious exercise The term religious exercise has the meaning given the term in section 8 of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 ( 42 U.S.C. 2000cc–5 ). (E) Services The term services , used with respect to a social services program, includes the provision of goods, or of financial assistance, under the social services program. (F) Social services program The term social services program — (i) means a program that is administered by the Federal Government, or by a State or local government using Federal financial assistance, and that provides services directed at reducing poverty, improving opportunities for low-income children, revitalizing low-income communities, empowering low-income families and low-income individuals to become self-sufficient, or otherwise helping people in need