Charity Articles

Disaster Giving: What Happened to $12.5 Million in Tornado Relief Donations?

June 16, 2022

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Disaster Giving: What Happened to $12.5 Million in Tornado R...

Jun 16, 2022

What happened to $12.5 million in tornado disaster relief funds? CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks to News Channel 5...

What happened to $12.5 million in tornado disaster relief funds? CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks to News Cha...

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Jun 08, 2022

Receive CharityWatch's bi-weekly email newsletter and sign up for a free account where you can save your favorite charities to a list and monitor their CharityWatch ratings, executive salaries, governance benchmarks, and other dat...

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CharityWatch Needs Your Help

Jun 04, 2022

As the only independent charity watchdog in the United States, CharityWatch needs your help to continue performing our critical role in keeping the nonprofit sector honest...

As the only independent charity watchdog in the United States, CharityWatch needs your help to continue performing our critical ro...

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Donors Warned to Be Cautious of Scams After Mass Shootings

Jun 03, 2022

"'There are fake crowdfunding campaigns that pop up all the time. And there's a lot of copycat crowdfunding campaigns that pop up all the time because people swoop in immediately after a tragedy and try to cash in and then they're...

"'There are fake crowdfunding campaigns that pop up all the time. And there's a lot of copycat crowdfunding campaigns that pop up ...

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LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2022

Jun 03, 2022

CharityWatch releases our ratings and in-depth reports of LGBTQ+ nonprofit organizations. The 3 Top-Rated organizations receive ratings of A and A-minus, respectively, while the lowest rated organization...

CharityWatch releases our ratings and in-depth reports of LGBTQ+ nonprofit organizations. The 3 Top-Rated organizations receive ra...

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CharityWatch Report on NRA and NRA Foundation

May 27, 2022

CharityWatch issues a comprehensive report on its findings on the National Rifle Association and its related Foundation as the nation grapples with continued gun violence...

CharityWatch issues a comprehensive report on its findings on the National Rifle Association and its related Foundation as the nat...

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CharityWatch Helps Foundations Identify Efficient and Effect...

May 27, 2022

CharityWatch regularly partners with journalists working nationally, regionally, and locally to contribute in-depth financial analysis and other expertise to their investigations into wrongdoing at charities. For 30 years, Charity...

CharityWatch regularly partners with journalists working nationally, regionally, and locally to contribute in-depth financial anal...

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Taxpayer Subsidized PPP Funds Went to Charities with High As...

May 25, 2022

CharityWatch questions if granting PPP funds to charities that could have relied on their own reserves to weather the economic fallout resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic was the best use of these resources. PPP funding was limit...

CharityWatch questions if granting PPP funds to charities that could have relied on their own reserves to weather the economic fal...

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Taxpayer Subsidized PPP Funds Went to Charities with Failing...

May 25, 2022

Many highly inefficient charities with histories of very low program spending and "F" ratings from CharityWatch received taxpayer subsidized PPP funds that could have been better utilized by other, much more efficient nonprofits....

Many highly inefficient charities with histories of very low program spending and "F" ratings from CharityWatch received taxpayer ...

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30 More Years of Keeping Charities Honest

May 23, 2022

Happy Birthday CharityWatch! If you were fortunate enough to grow up with a strong sense of right and wrong, you likely become frustrated as I do by a world that too often seems to reward bad behavior. Scammers and unethical chari...

Happy Birthday CharityWatch! If you were fortunate enough to grow up with a strong sense of right and wrong, you likely become fru...

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St. Joseph's Indian School: 25 Years of No Accountability

May 20, 2022

A charity sending a donor its self-published “Financial Report” pamphlet in response to a request for its audit is like a student sending their professor the grade they assigned themselves for the semester in lieu of turning i...

A charity sending a donor its self-published “Financial Report” pamphlet in response to a request for its audit is like a stud...

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CharityWatch Report: The Beau Biden Foundation For The Prote...

Apr 25, 2022

Charities that are in some way affiliated with a celebrity, athlete, or politician tend to receive more interest and scrutiny from the public. In some cases the criticisms are objective and fair. In other cases they may be motivat...

Charities that are in some way affiliated with a celebrity, athlete, or politician tend to receive more interest and scrutiny from...

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I'm Not Here To Make Friends

Apr 22, 2022

Exposing the truth about wasteful and unethical practices in the charity world sometimes means not being universally liked. Unlike charity trade associations and other industry insiders whose priority is to amplify the marketing a...

Exposing the truth about wasteful and unethical practices in the charity world sometimes means not being universally liked. Unlike...

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Are Charity Matching Donations Legit?

Mar 29, 2022

Charity matching donation campaigns are sometimes little more than marketing spin and won't increase the value of your contribution in many cases...

Charity matching donation campaigns are sometimes little more than marketing spin and won't increase the value of your contributio...

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CharityWatch Wishes You A Very Happy Ramadan

Mar 28, 2022

CharityWatch Wishes You A Very Happy Ramadan. Want to recommend a charity for CharityWatch to rate that focuses on international relief and development in the Islamic world, or that conducts programs specifically designed to serve...

CharityWatch Wishes You A Very Happy Ramadan. Want to recommend a charity for CharityWatch to rate that focuses on international r...

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VIDEO: Laurie Styron Talks to Global News About Donations Fo...

Mar 24, 2022

"That is a danger, is that, you know, the new, shiny crisis is often where the attention is directed, so then people do shift their donations from one crisis to another."...

"That is a danger, is that, you know, the new, shiny crisis is often where the attention is directed, so then people do shift thei...

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Boy Scouts of America Struggles With Accountability Despite ...

Mar 24, 2022

Boy Scouts of America reports its top three compensation packages for the year as $521,820 (paid to the President/CEO); $544,978 (paid to the CFO); and $715,374 (paid to the Assistant Chief Scout Executive). While paying mult...

Boy Scouts of America reports its top three compensation packages for the year as $521,820 (paid to the President/CEO); $544,...

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CharityWatch Update On Black Lives Matter Global Network Fou...

Mar 23, 2022

In October 2020, BLMGNF received a transfer in the amount of $66,490,000 from its former fiscal sponsor, Thousand Currents, according to the fiscal 2020 audited consolidated financial statements of that sponsor. CharityWatch conta...

In October 2020, BLMGNF received a transfer in the amount of $66,490,000 from its former fiscal sponsor, Thousand Currents, accord...

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Donations Needed For Yemen & Afghanistan

Mar 22, 2022

Let's talk about Yemen and Afghanistan. As relief efforts have been directed to Ukraine, public attention has waned on two of the other worst humanitarian crises in the world. CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, encour...

Let's talk about Yemen and Afghanistan. As relief efforts have been directed to Ukraine, public attention has waned on two of the ...

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Taking From The Hungry To Feed The Starving: Crisis in Yemen

Mar 18, 2022

Don't get scammed! Donate to legitimate and efficient charities aiding those affected by the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen. ...

Don't get scammed! Donate to legitimate and efficient charities aiding those affected by the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Y...

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CharityWatch Assigns The Cousteau Society a "?" Rating

Mar 17, 2022

CharityWatch details our concerns about The Cousteau Society, issuing the charity a "?" rating...

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VIDEO: Laurie Styron Talks About Direct Relief's Humanitaria...

Mar 16, 2022

VIDEO: CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks about the humanitarian aid Direct Relief & Direct Relief Foundation is providing to those fleeing violence in Ukraine. ...

VIDEO: CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks about the humanitarian aid Direct Relief & Direct Relief Foundati...

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Video: CharityWatch Talks About The Work of Catholic Relief ...

Mar 16, 2022

VIDEO: CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks about the humanitarian aid Catholic Relief Services is providing to those fleeing violence in Ukraine.

VIDEO: CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks about the humanitarian aid Catholic Relief Services is providing to t...

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VIDEO: CARE USA And Its Ukraine Relief Efforts

Mar 16, 2022

VIDEO: CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks about the humanitarian aid CARE USA is providing to those fleeing violence in Ukraine.

VIDEO: CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks about the humanitarian aid CARE USA is providing to those fleeing vio...

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