The past few years, I've been donating to a charity that focuses on helping children who have cancer. I did a fair amount of research and feel confident that they use the funds better than most charities.
I also look around for local charities and donate a bit for things like sports equipment and whatnot.
Just thought I'd see what others are doing and maybe change it up this year.
It's disheartening to do a little research on the big charities and see how scammy the vast majority are, they don't even hide it.
I only learned about what a scam Kars4Kids was in the last few years.
Trade in your clunker to send rich Jewlets to summer camp!
But they're raising awareness! It's important work!
Use charitynavigator.org to see ratings based on how charities spend their money.
Guidestar is good too. Assuming they aren't jewed.
Where do my donation dollars go?
Nowhere. I don't donate, so I don't need to keep track of crap like this. I realized years ago that whatever money you are donating simply goes into rubbing hands or used to genocide me in my own country.
I just donate to political organizations that I agree with (small news sites, political parties, people who get persecuted by my government/leftists, etc). That way all the money goes to causes I agree with.
All the leftist bullshit has soured me on charities. Pretty much all of them are just leftist "N"GOs who'll likely end up spending money on things that I at best disagree with or at worst are against my own interests.
These NGO get too much government money as it is anyway and people on the right who oppose the leftist mainstream are worthier recipients.
Direct donation to individuals or fairly small orgs. Local food bank is about as "big" as I go.
I find even the local food banks are horribly corrupt.
The bigger ones are infiltrated with partisan apparatchiks and toadies.
The smaller ones are run by boomer AWFLs who make access impossible & collaborate with local jeet businesses to run scams.
Any suggestions on good ways to find individuals who are worthy of donating to?
Talk.
And not just to the money-collectors. Talk to the recipients and would-be recipients, if at all possible. See how much of a result is made. Obviously if you're doing something like supporting local authors/artists/scientists, the collector is often the recipient, it's direct, but for other things, you can learn a lot with even a passing conversation. The "friendly" homeless prefer one soup kitchen, apparently the others get the crazies too often and the operators don't stop the bad behavior.
My church/related things.
Unless the organization clearly states their entire goal is to stop immigration it’s not worth donating.
Local food bank, local church, local trail association. that's it. Most charities are a scam where maybe 5% of what they earn actually goes towards their stated goal, the rest goes to """administration""".
All charities are required to report where the money goes. It’s usually easy to find those reports. Some put a lot of money into administration like you said, but many don’t.
I wouldn’t just assume your local groups use the money wisely
indeed they are, but even then it's easy to hide just how much of the money actually goes to the stated goal. Take American Red Cross for example (https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/about-us/publications/2022-publications/FY2022_Red_Cross_Financial_Statement_FINAL.pdf):
in 2022, they reported over $2million for "Biomedical Services". services to who? what experiments or treatments were administered? how much of that money went to overhead versus actually purchasing supplies? there's no way to tell from the report.
as for local charities, I personally know people who benefit from the food bank I donate to. I personally know the church and know they are genuine. I use the trails maintained by the trail association constantly, and they are kept in good condition.
Publicly traded companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, but that doesn't stop the C-suite from getting creative with their accounting so they get their bonuses (see: Nvidia).
I donate to animal rescue neuter/spay organizations.
My local animal rescue orgs are run by feminist psychos who do everything they can to sabotage the placement of animals because of No True Scotsman.
That's fair. My friends and family are all doing well enough thankfully. I did help my mom buy a used SUV recently because she was long overdue for an upgrade.
I give to St Jude's, which sounds like the same org you give to. They're good people. I'm sure some Jew is stealing some of the money, but I'm sure some goes to children's health too though. I donate to nature conservation groups too. As long as they aren't global warming scam faggots.
Only really worth it if you have a company and want to pay less taxes.
I dunno. Helping others feels good as long as they are worthy of help.
yeah but not with money which might get embezzled or 50%+ gets used to pay for wages of the people "working" at the charity. I have heard too many times of things like that. Also these days lots of immigrants abuse these systems even if they arent really needy, especially at food banks. And then they send some of their welfare money to their home country.
Yeah that's a real concern, which is why I'm very careful about who I give money to.
To 'our greatest ally', of course! /s
In my country we have a charity organization that is transparent beyond sanity. Plus they make very cool t-shirts, so...