Through the secretary or his designee, the department may accept or refuse grants, appropriations, contributions, or unencumbered property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein, for the purposes described in this section from the Federal government, the Commonwealth and any donor. All grants, appropriations and contributions of money accepted shall be held by the State Treasurer as custodian for the Department of Public Welfare and shall be paid out on its requisition to further the objectives of this article.