+Charity Navigator , the best site for making sure the charity you might donate to this holiday season gives you the most for your donation, spends the most of your donation on the program they run. Click here to go to the page for holiday charity donation tips.
Tips for Giving This Holiday Season
Charity Navigator offers the following guidelines to ensure your holiday contributions are well-spent.- Review last year's charitable investments
- Be specific
- Look under the hood
- Donate online
- Concentrate your giving
Top 10 List Expanded
Highest and Lowest-Rated Charities by Cause
We offer the following list as a quick reference guide to the
highest and lowest-rated charity in each cause that we evaluate. In
providing this list, our goal is to help you navigate the crowded
charitable marketplace and make intelligent giving decisions.View the List
Support Our Work
We work hard for you all year long so we hope you'll include us in your year-end giving plans.Giving Facts
- Contributions are deductible in the year made. Thus, donations charged to a credit card before the end of 2015 count for 2015. This is true even if the credit card bill isn't paid until 2016. Also, checks count for 2015 as long as they are mailed in 2015 and clear, shortly thereafter.
- American donated approximately 2% of disposable income to charity in 2014, a percentage which has not changed significantly in decades, regardless of the strength of the economy.
- The average annual household charitable donation is $2,974.
- Online giving comprises less than 10% of total giving but outpaces the growth of giving overall.
- More than 30% of annual giving via Network for Good's donation processing system is during December.
- Charity Navigator's data shows that 7 out of 10 charities we've evaluated spend at least 75% of their budget on the programs and services they exist to provide. And 9 out of 10 spend at least 65%.
- Five types of charities have reached or surpassed all-time high giving levels since the recession ended in mid-2009. Giving to Education charities was up 4.9% to $54.6 billion. Donations to Human Services charities were up 3.6% to $42.1 billion. Foundations saw an increase of 1.8% to $41.5 billion. Health charities experienced an increase of 5.5% to $30.4 billion. Charities that focus on the environment / Animals saw an increase of 7% to $10.5 billion.
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