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Nearly 20 CharityWatch ‘F’ Rated Charities Cited in FTC Complaint Resulting in $110 Million Judgment Against Their For-Profit Telemarketers

Mar 5, 2021

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Nearly 20 CharityWatch ‘F’ Rated Charities Cited in FTC Complaint Resulting in $110 Million Judgment Against Their For-Profit Telemarketers

Mar 5, 2021

CharityWatch has different tools in our toolbox than the FTC and state charity regulators. As an independent charity watchdog organization, we are often able to warn donors about inefficient charities...

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Good Riddance ‘F’ Rated Charities

Jul 16, 2020

(Updated July 2, 2024) CharityWatch analysts collectively spend more than 1,000 hours each year analyzing and reporting on the financial waste and questionable practices we uncover. We warn donors about inefficient...

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‘Scam PACs’ Are On the Rise: Don’t Confuse Them for Legitimate Charities

Jun 17, 2020

Political action committees, also known as PACs, are not the same thing as public charities, but some questionable actors from the charity world may be confusing donors into thinking otherwise....

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‘Sham’ Disabled Police Charity Agrees to Shut Down in Settlement with Missouri AG and FTC

Mar 29, 2019

"Cheating citizens out of money and personally profiting under the guise of helping disabled law enforcement is despicable," said the Attorney General of Missouri in a March 28th, 2019 press release...

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Charity Continues to Deceive Donors In the Name of Fallen Police

Dec 5, 2018

"Police officers put their lives on the line every day for their communities. It is wrong for any organization to try to take advantage of public sympathy for the losses...

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Florida AG Seeking Shut Down of Charity Exploiting Causes for Breast Cancer, Fallen Firefighters and Fire Victims

Dec 27, 2017

"It is absolutely abhorrent to exploit families of fallen firefighters and breast cancer patients to steal from generous Floridians. …[E]very dollar given to a deceptive charity is a dollar that...

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Michigan AG Alleges Firefighters Charity Is a Scam

May 20, 2016

Firefighters Support Services is “another example of a sympathetic cause – firefighters and those losing their homes from fire – being exploited by scammers,” according to the Michigan Attorney General...

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Police Charity Scheme Is a Rip-Off

Mar 3, 2016

See CharityWatch's president, Daniel Borochoff, question the worthiness of a Wisconsin police charity on NBC Milwaukee news.

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Solicitation Fails to Mention Government’s Huge Role in Helping Fallen Police

Jan 28, 2015

A CharityWatch member recently forwarded us a solicitation from the American Federation of Police & Concerned Citizens. The letter seeks contributions for the local "Police Family Survivors Fund" to provide...

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All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F’s

Apr 1, 2009

While not all charities that have family members running them receive poor grades from the American Institute of Philanthropy, many of them do. The Chronicle of Philanthropy last September published...

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No Jail Time For Prison Fellowship Ministries

Dec 1, 2007

An AIP member forwarded to us a solicitation letter she received from Prison Fellowship Ministries earlier this year. Included with the letter was a bright, yellow slip of paper which...

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Undercover Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is to Set Up Phony Charity

Apr 1, 2004

The American Institute of Philanthropy worked with ABC News on a yearlong investigation of the charity business. Rhonda Schwartz, a producer for ABC News, went undercover to see how easy...

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