Joint Costs: Avoid This Popular Charity Accounting Trick!

Dec 9, 2022

In nonprofit financial reporting, the funds spent on telemarketing, direct mail, or other solicitation activities that also include an "action step" or "call to action" are referred to as "Joint...

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...

Aid Charity’s 95% Program Claim Is ‘Unfair and Deceptive’

Jul 13, 2018

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,...

CharityWatch Ratings Bridge the Knowledge Gap between Donors and GAAP Reporting

Aug 10, 2016

What do you know about GAAP? Unless you are knowledgeable about accounting, probably very little. GAAP is short for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Sounds like boring stuff you don't need...

Making Sense of WWP’s Program Spending: Which Ratio Should You Believe?

Jun 17, 2016

Ever since the popular veterans charity Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) was accused of wasting donations on lavish spending in reports by CBS News and The New York Times in early...

Tricks of the Charity Trade: Donors Unknowingly Pay to Receive More Solicitations

May 1, 2013

How many return address stickers, note pads, and greeting cards have you collected from charity mailings urging you to make a contribution? How many phone calls have you received from...

Accounting Rules Allow Nonprofits Discretion in the Reporting of Joint Costs

Apr 16, 2013

In nonprofit financial reporting, the funds spent on telemarketing, direct mail, or other solicitation activities that also include an "action step" or "call to action" are referred to as "Joint...

Avon Raises Awareness For Its Cosmetics and For Breast Cancer

Apr 1, 2010

Avon Products Foundation is perhaps best known among donors for its Avon Walk for Breast Cancer held in many large cities across the nation each year. The charity is named...