Food For The Hungry meets CharityWatch's benchmarks for Top-Rated status based on our analysis of its fiscal year 2021 financial reporting. However, it is ultimately up to you to decide which charities...
September is Hunger Action month. According to the USDA, more than 34 million people (including 9 million children) in the United States are food insecure.
A charity might spent 90% of your donation on fundraising and overhead costs, but by running large volumes of non-cash donations through its books, it can make itself appear to...
Wise donors like you turn to CharityWatch for ratings and quality reporting on wrongdoing in the nonprofit sector because you know we aren’t afraid to name names and hold charities accountable to their donors....
(Updated April 1, 2021) The WHO officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. This is the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus. The WHO’s director-general stated, “We...
The office of the California Attorney General (OAG) "is committed to protecting generous donors from the harm caused by misleading accounting gimmicks," states a May 30th, 2019 press release announcing...
The California AG has accused Food For The Poor of using an "unfair and deceptive" program percentage statement in its fundraising solicitations. In that "95% Statement," which per the AG,...
(Updated on April 19, 2017) The Oklahoma City based Feed the Children (FTC), which has long received poor ratings from CharityWatch and was named “The Most Outrageous Charity in America” by...
Angel Food Ministries (AFM), a Georgia-based nonprofit that provided discounted food to families in need across the U.S., has shut its doors. The group blamed factors such as the poor...
In August of 2011 CharityWatch published The Alice in Wonderland World of Charity Valuation, in which we described a serious problem among many charities that raise and distribute non-cash aid...
More bad behavior has come to light after AIP handed Feed the Children its "Most Outrageous Charity Award" in our last edition of the Charity Rating Guide. After having worked...
From forged audits and alleged employee theft in the late '90s to alleged burglary and board coup staging within the past year, no other major charity can match Feed the...
