People We Disagree With Still Deserve Our Help

Nov 1, 2022

A few months ago, I attended a philosophy meetup group focusing on ethics. Each person was paired off with another group member to exchange ideas on a very specific question:...

Boo! Don’t Let Bad Charities Scare You Out of Donating

Oct 28, 2022

In our watchdog role, CharityWatch warns you about the charities that are not using your donations efficiently and directs you to Top-Rated charities to help you to give with confidence. 

Brett Favre’s Charitable Foundation Scrutinized Over Grants to Help Fund USM Volleyball Facility

Sep 29, 2022

Brett Favre's charitable foundation, Favre 4 Hope, is being scrutinized over grants it made over three years to help fund the University of Southern Mississippi's (USM) volleyball facility...

The Brett Favre Charity Controversy: Charities Are Not Piggy Banks For The Pet Projects of Their Founders

Sep 29, 2022

"Founding a charity to purportedly help breast cancer patients and underserved and disabled children, and then using it instead as a vehicle to funnel funds to a volleyball facility that...

This Labor Day Consider Donating to a Top-Rated Charity

Sep 1, 2022

The Labor Day holiday marks the unofficial end of summer and is a time to remember the works and contributions of those people who fought for the worker protections we...

Indeed, There’s Never Been a Better Time to be a “Scammy” Nonprofit

Aug 17, 2022

"These ratings are routinely called out by CharityWatch, the only real aggressive watchdog...'The whole system is propped up on false assumptions and flawed automated methods,' said Laurie Styron, CharityWatch's leader." 

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Jun 8, 2022

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CharityWatch Needs Your Help

Jun 4, 2022

As the only independent charity watchdog in the United States, CharityWatch needs your help to continue performing our critical role in keeping the nonprofit sector honest...

CharityWatch Helps Foundations Identify Efficient and Effective Charities to Support

May 27, 2022

CharityWatch regularly partners with journalists working nationally, regionally, and locally to contribute in-depth financial analysis and other expertise to their investigations into wrongdoing at charities. For 30 years, CharityWatch...

30 More Years of Keeping Charities Honest

May 23, 2022

Happy Birthday CharityWatch! If you were fortunate enough to grow up with a strong sense of right and wrong, you likely become frustrated as I do by a world that...

I’m Not Here To Make Friends

Apr 22, 2022

Exposing the truth about wasteful and unethical practices in the charity world sometimes means not being universally liked. Unlike charity trade associations and other industry insiders whose priority is to...

Are Charity Matching Donations Legit?

Mar 29, 2022

Charity matching donation campaigns are sometimes little more than marketing spin and won't increase the value of your contribution in many cases...