CharityWatch Blog

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...

LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2022

Jun 3, 2022

CharityWatch releases our ratings and in-depth reports of LGBTQ+ nonprofit organizations. The 3 Top-Rated organizations receive ratings of A and A-minus, respectively, while the lowest rated organization...

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...

CharityWatch Report on NRA and NRA Foundation

May 27, 2022

CharityWatch issues a comprehensive report on its findings on the National Rifle Association and its related Foundation as the nation grapples with continued gun violence...

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...

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...

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...

St. Joseph’s Indian School: 25 Years of No Accountability

May 20, 2022

A charity sending a donor its self-published “Financial Report” pamphlet in response to a request for its audit is like a student sending their professor the grade they assigned themselves...

CharityWatch Report: The Beau Biden Foundation For The Protection Of Children

Apr 25, 2022

Charities that are in some way affiliated with a celebrity, athlete, or politician tend to receive more interest and scrutiny from the public. In some cases the criticisms are objective...

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...

CharityWatch Wishes You A Very Happy Ramadan

Mar 28, 2022

CharityWatch Wishes You A Very Happy Ramadan. Want to recommend a charity for CharityWatch to rate that focuses on international relief and development in the Islamic world, or that conducts...