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spaceflower890 t1_iuk2ufk wrote

Reply to comment by 7lexliv7 in How do I select trustworthy charities to donate a windfall I do not want? by Most-Star-7094

Just make sure you know what an organization lowering its overhead to stay below a few cents per dollar, often only screws over the young professionals and those with less experience in the industry. There are studies regarding the wage inequity of the sector.

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itsdan159 t1_iuk3zwm wrote

This, I very much recommend Charity Navigator but also don't obsess over low administrative costs. I've worked with a couple nonprofits and the staff are almost all paid like crap and their enthusiasm to be helping people is absolutely exploited.

Likewise an executive making a $300k salary sounds like a huge a waste, but consider organizations the size of some larger well known nonprofits do actually require a lot of specialized knowledge and skill.

In principle you want to look more at how effective they are. Doesn't help to spent 99 cents of every dollar on aid if it doesn't actually do much good because the staff is paid crap and the executives have no idea what they're doing.

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