Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Administrative expenses: 43.7%
That's just crazy!
Government “charity” is probably a lot worse.
And this paragraph:Whether it be rent on prime office space, generous pay and benefits for the board of directors, or the high fixed costs of running a summer camp, overhead like this reduces the impact of a charity no matter how that money is being spent
strangely includes the costs of running a summer camp with administrative rent and salaries. If the purpose of the charity is to run a summer camp, then they have to pay the required "fixed costs," such as property tax, maintenance expenses, and insurance premiums.
The top charity is Gubmint, with 72% administrative costs.
So much for “charity”.
Those working at the “charity” use it to line their onw pockets. The Red Cross does the same thing.
It appears one should avoid donating to charities that specialize in proselytising or that single out minorities for their aid recipients.
“Please Touch Museum” [had] “revenue of over $24 million in its last reported fiscal year (2008) [and] funneled just $2 million of that to its community outreach programs.”
At one of the Audobon chapters, the director’s salary is mentioned. At the other, it’s the cost of visitors’ centers. The centers are where they do their educational programs about birds.
Whether or not you think that’s the best way to promote bird life, or whatever Audobon Societies are for, owning centers for birdly education can hardly be considered a misuse of donations.
Any liberal charity is run mainly for siphoning off money for nefarious purposes eg United Way
After reading the whole list, I believe that most of these “charitable organizations” are mistakenly marked at charities. I had dealt with that problem before.
Was a member of an organization that someone had mistakenly marked it as a “Charitable Organization” (because it sounds nice??) instead of an educational Organization.
We kept getting auditied by IRS wanting to know All this information about “Who did we give money to, and etc”... it took me HOURS to explain the difference, and most of the members (Liberals) just couldn’t get it.
Due to this ignorance or stupidity, I left the org. and far as I know they still getting audit letters from IRS.
Giving to charity is one of the joys of my life.
I fund charities exactly like I fund politicians. I give only to those who I can vet thoroughly and whose philosophies parallel my own.
Thus I don’t give to any umbrella political organizations (RNC, etc.) and I don’t give to umbrella charity organizations either. No United Way for me. I want control over how my money is spent. FWIW, all of my charitable giving is to local organizations or national organizations with a strong local presence like the Salvation Army.
All a waste of money.
And I would have thought they would be the usual Amish.
I once saw a list of the most efficient insurance companies.
To my surprise “The Social Security Administration” had the best record. Partly because of scale and also they were one of the first to go heavily into computers.
Government is generally very very inefficient but it doesn’t have to be.
American Tract Society has a response which was written uo in an article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-tractsociety_15met.ART.State.Edition1.299eaa5.html
The one time expenses were to make the charity a leaner meaner one for the future. They publish obscure old tracts from 19th century authors for God’s sake.
In short, screw your bro.
....the Jesse Jackson model!
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Is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on the bad charity list? Morris Dees and his few top employees take out high salaries, what they call education expense is all the fund raising literature they send out and little goes to anything else.