10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers
These 10 charities are not living up to their missions. Each spends more than 50% of its budget paying for-profit fundraising professionals to solicit your hard-earned money. They are ranked by the percentage of their total functional expenses spent on professional fundraising fees. As a result, very little of the charity's spending is directed towards its programs and services.
Rank Charity Program Expenses Professional Fundraising Fees
1 The Committee for Missing Children 11.2% 86.1%
2 American Veterans Relief Foundation 6.4% 85.9%
3 Coalition of Police and Sheriffs 6.6% 85.3%
4 Junior Police Academy 3.7% 84.6%
5 Foundation for Children with Cancer 10.3% 82.8%
6 Firefighters Charitable Foundation 14.6% 80.7%
7 National Children's Leukemia Foundation 14.4% 78.9%
8 Children's Charity Fund, Inc. 10.0% 78.3%
9 Wishing Well Foundation USA 12.6% 77.9%
10 National Police Defense Foundation 27.4% 67.8%
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