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The Bren Simon Foundation - The Melvin and Bren Simon Foundation made the list. They have been around for THIRTY years. The Catholic Church has been around for 2000 years worth of charity. I THINK that the Bren Simon Foundation is wonderful, but, will they be around another 2000 years to "calculate" who gives how much to whom? Or do you think that the Catholic Church will STILL be around doing what it's been doing already for 2000 years?

Also, they might not have gotten ALL of it right, especially when VOLUNTEER work isn't computed in there.
If the "man hours" were calculated, that is, the priests, sisters, brothers, monks and unpaid (of course) volunteers, who live their lives for Christ and His charities, I doubt if the Catholic Church would come up third.

In fact it would be my guess that the other charities would be second and third by too large a margin to believe.

How DOES one calculate the hours, months, decades of volunteer work? Do we discount the unpaid work of the sisters, monks, brothers and priests? Does their labor have no price tag? I guess not.

How many Catholics ARE there? Over the past century, the number of Catholics around the world has more than tripled, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. As of 2010, there are nearly 1.1 billion Catholics, up from an estimated 291 million in 1910.

How much do these Catholics contribute in food, housing, clothing, work, medical care, counseling, St. Anthony kitchens? Doctors and nurses have ALWAYS volunteered their time for the poor. That can't be calculated either.
ALL volunteer. There simply IS no price tag for that.