Although the Federal Reserve is and thinks of itself as part of the government, 100% of the $37 billion in paid-in stock of its twelve component Federal Reserve Banks (FRBs) is owned by private shareholders. This was part of the political compromise of the original 1913 Federal Reserve Act.
The shareholders are the commercial banks that are the members of the respective FRBs. Remarkably, these private shareholders are getting dividends from the FRBs even when the combined Fed has no profits, no saved up past profits (retained earnings), and hugely negative actual capital. Any private bank which tried to pay dividends under these circumstances would be sternly prohibited by the Fed from doing so.
Proper accounting (GAAP) principles tell us that the Federal Reserve Bank and all of its regional banks are what most accountants would call bankrupt. They have suspended the accounting principles to take even more money and give it to their crony owners, the other banks. When will they shut this Ponzi scheme down? Whenever people say, “NO!” And remove all assets from the banks to let them rot.