Stop and verify. Under the official terms the gift is made by the applicant to the U.S. government. Wire instructions directing the money to a private company, a consultant’s account or an unidentified escrow do not match that description and should be checked against the official page before anything is sent.
Check the payee against the official page, every time
The payee is the fact most worth confirming independently, because it is the one that cannot be corrected afterwards. Hypothetical example: an awning and canvas fabricator near Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover receives a professionally formatted package with a schedule of fees and wire instructions naming a private consultancy as the recipient of both the processing fee and the gift; the correct response is to read the current official page, note the payee it identifies, and decline to transfer until the two agree. Ask for everything in writing: who receives each payment, at what stage, what is refundable, and what the consultant is being paid for separately from the government amounts.
Keep your own records of every instruction received and every transfer made. And re-verify immediately before sending rather than relying on a page you read weeks earlier, because published terms for a programme at this stage can be revised.