I was planning to donate the couple bucks I had left over from the year to the charity called “San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance”, I was doing a background check on CharityNavigator and they gave the charity full ratings so it seemed good.
Then I stumbled upon the salary section. What the fuck? I earn <20k a year and was planning to contribute to someone’s million dollar salary? WHAT.
No affiliation, and I’ve never donated to them, but their financials are far from the worst:
There are many charities that don’t spend the majority of donations on the actual program. Like, wtf…
There are some non profits that are money funneling machines. Enter College board and CompTia.
I’d like to call out the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation here. You know the pink ribbon people. They are ridiculously corrupt. They only give 21% of what they take in.