The question i was taught to ask about charities in the military:
What percent of my donation goes to the actual charity and what percent goes to pay the people running it?
In no way, shape, or form am I trying to criticize your charity! Please don't think that! I just want to make sure you understand something that i didn't understand until i was well into my 20's about how charities work: the people that run them, usually pay themselves to run them. Fund raising staff often gets paid, sometimes very generously.
I'd just assumed everyone working for a charity was a volunteer and every dollar donated went entirely to the charity. (which isn't true)
Easy to read table of top charities from 2010:
America's Top 50 charities: How well do they rate? - The Christian Science Monitor
Highest paid CEO: $4 million dollars a year. Average CEO salary, around $400,000-$500,000.
Better % of $ spent on programs > 88%. Worse % of $ spent on programs < 80%. The worst one was 36.8% (that means for every dollar, $0.732 of it went to paying themselves, the rest left over went to the actual charity.)
Here's another one, current from 2019 but harder to read as it has a lot of layers:
America's Top Charities 2019
The #1 charity "United Way" the top salary and benefits was $1.6 million to a single individual.
I tried to DM this to you (CasualNuker) but you have your privacy settings set that i can't. So i posted this as reply.
I hope you find this information informative and helpful! :)
*edit* I found it! sorry, my research skills are blah. here's the percentages for this charity!!
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF EACH DONATION WILL GO TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION?
100% of donations made through the various donation platforms go to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
95% of donations made to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund will go to WHO or partners like UNICEF and CEPI, as requested by WHO, for response efforts, with 5% used by the UN Foundation to cover the costs of transactions.
To cover its administrative charges, Swiss Philanthropy Foundation will take a contribution of 4% for amounts donated through the fund up to CHF 5 million, followed by 2% of funds donated up to CHF 10 million, followed by 1% of funds above that amount. To cover its administrative charges, Transnational Giving Europe will take a contribution of 5% for amounts donated via a local Transnational Giving Europe partner up to EUR 100,000 then 1% beyond that, capped at EUR 15,000.
95% of funds donated through the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), will go to WHO.
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so like, 91-94%. that's super good!
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edit: there is a link to donate directly to the fund itself. Your fundraising person maybe taking an additional % for themselves for raising the money. idk.
