Celebrate Lunar New Year by Donating to a Top-Rated Charity

Feb 6, 2024

Happy Lunar New Year from CharityWatch! 

Giving Tuesday 2023

Nov 20, 2023

Giving Tuesday is November 28, 2023. View Top-Rated charities and learn how to avoid charity frauds and scams. 

Fundraisers Ordered to Pay $18.8 Million and Banned from Soliciting Forever Forced to Relinquish Luxury Assets

Oct 18, 2023

Donors who have been misled or harassed by charity telemarketers know how insidious some telephone fundraisers can be. In a signal that the regulators know it, too, the Federal Trade...

Happy Father’s Day from CharityWatch!

Jun 15, 2023

In honor and celebration of Father’s Day, why not consider a donation to a CharityWatch Top-Rated charity.

Happy Mother’s Day from CharityWatch!

May 8, 2023

In honor and celebration of the special mother in your life, consider a donation to a CharityWatch Top-Rated charity. 

5 Steps For Informed Giving

Nov 22, 2022

Giving Tuesday is only a reminder. Every day is a good day to support the charitable causes that are important to you. Find a CharityWatch Top-Rated charity to support...

‘100% to Program’ Claims Confuse Donors

Aug 4, 2022

Claims made in charity solicitations and marketing materials that promise 100% of your donation will fund charitable programs certainly sound enticing as you consider which nonprofits will use your contributions...

Taxpayer Subsidized PPP Funds Went to Charities with Failing Grades

May 25, 2022

Many highly inefficient charities with histories of very low program spending and "F" ratings from CharityWatch received taxpayer subsidized PPP funds that could have been better utilized by other, much...

Taxpayer Subsidized PPP Funds Went to Charities with High Assets

May 25, 2022

CharityWatch questions if granting PPP funds to charities that could have relied on their own reserves to weather the economic fallout resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic was the best use...

Non-cash Donations Obscure How Efficiently A Charity Is Really Operating

Feb 8, 2022

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...

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...

Charity Finishes Last at Car Donation Charities: Micro-Mini Share of Proceeds Go to Charity

Dec 18, 2015

Its "Wheels for Wishes" ads that mention "Make-A-Wish" have attracted tens of thousands of car donations, but it appears that many more of these "wheels" are for profits than for...