With charities [501(c)3] I use two factors. Either run it through
Charity Navigator to check their rating or contribute to the ones you are personally involved with.
Interesting that Boy Scouts of America is divided by location and some have very low ratings ?
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ind...search.results
Disclosure: Our Charity SOAR of Western North Carolina was established so we could hand off donations to SOWF and not encumber them with our overheads...when I was involved we tried to be fourth coming about that with contributors after all putting on the events had cost to it, IIRC aprox. 18%- 20%. I see that transparency has changed since I moved away:
https://soarhighlands.org/
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Over the past 16 years SOAR of Western North Carolina has raised and donated over $550,000 for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. As always, 100% of the proceeds from the 2017 race will benefit SOWF.
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That does not take into account the overheads...Like many things over time, a bit of a drift from our original efforts. ( besides the fact we raised more money than they now state?)
SOWF works very hard on that issue and maintains the highest rating possible and has for years, if I'm not mistaken their overheads come out of the interest generated from interest from contributions:
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ind...ary&orgid=7584
Now that is ideally what a charity rating should look like.
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