10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers & Charity Navigator Announces New Rating Dimension 6FEB13

CHARITY NAVIGATOR is a charity ranking website. It is a very useful tool to help you make sure your donation is going to do the work you want it to. I use it all the time, and have not donated to, or stopped donating to charities with low ratings. Here are the top 10 charities that spend way more on their professional paid fundraisers than on the actual charity programs, followed by the Charity Navigator newsletter for FEB 2013.....

10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers

These 10 charities are not living up to their missions. Each spends more than 50% of its budget paying for-profit fundraising professionals to solicit your hard-earned money. They are ranked by the percentage of their total functional expenses spent on professional fundraising fees. As a result, very little of the charity's spending is directed towards its programs and services.

Rank	Charity	Program Expenses	Professional Fundraising Fees
1	Disabled Police Officers Counseling Center	4.4%	94.6%
2	Cancer Survivors' Fund	7.4%	89.2%
3	The Committee for Missing Children	11.1%	86.7%
4	Firefighters Charitable Foundation	7.7%	85.4%
5	Operation Lookout	9.8%	84.2%
6	Wishing Well Foundation USA	9.1%	80.2%
7	National Vietnam Veterans Foundation	9.7%	79.8%
8	Law Enforcement Education Program	3.0%	79.3%
9	Children's Charity Fund, Inc.	8.1%	77.9%
10	National Police Defense Foundation	17.3%	77.2%

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