America's 50 Worst Charities

[superpatriotman]

http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/

http://www.ibtimes.com/50-worst-charities-america-tax-records-show-most-profits-go-solicitors-full-list-1308081#

Your donations to charity may be helping more than just those in need. With the help of federal tax filings, a recent study revealed the 50 worst charities in the U.S. based on how much the organizations’ fundraisers pocket versus how much is actually contributed towards their specified causes.

The Center for Investigative Reporting and the St. Petersburg, Fla., Tampa Bay Times studied 6,000 charities tax records that utilize the services of paid fundraisers only to uncover that 50 U.S. charities gave an alleged 11 cents or less on the dollar for each donation. According to a report from MSN, some of the flamed charities have been previously cited by the Better Business Bureau for their controversial distribution of profits.

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The List

1. Kids Wish Network-- Donations: $127.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $109.8 million

2. Cancer Fund of America—Donations: $98.0 million/Solicitor Profits: $80.4 million

3. Children's Wish Foundation International – Donations: $96.8 million/Solicitor Profits $63.6 million

4. American Breast Cancer Foundation –Donations: $80.8 million/Solicitor Profits:$59.8 million

5. Firefighters Charitable Foundation—Donations: $63.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $54.7 million

6. Breast Cancer Relief Foundation—Donations: $63.9 million/ Solicitor Profits: $44.8 million

7. International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO—Donations: $57.2 million/Solicitor Profits: $41.4 million

8. National Veterans Service Fund—Donations: $70.2 million/Solicitor Profits: $36.9 million

9. American Association of State Troopers—Donations: $45.0 million/Solicitor Profits: $36.0 million

10. Children's Cancer Fund of America—Donations: $37.5 million/Solicitor Profits: $29.2 million

11. Children's Cancer Recovery Foundation- Donations: $34.7 million/Solicitor Profits: $27.6 million

12. Youth Development Fund—Donations: $29.7 million/Solicitor Profits: $24.5 million

13. Committee For Missing Children—Donations: $26.9 million/ Solicitor Profits: $23.8 million

14. Association for Firefighters and Paramedics – Donations:$23.2 million/Solicitor Profits: $20.8 million

15. Project Cure (Bradenton, FL) – Donations:$51.5 million/Solicitor Profits: $20.4 million

16. National Caregiving Foundation—Donations: $22.3 million/Solicitor Profits: $18.1 million

17. Operation Lookout National Center for Missing Youth—Donations: $19.6 million/Solicitor Profits: $16.1 million

18. United States Deputy Sheriffs' Association—Donations: $23.1 million/Solicitor Profits: $15.9 million

19. Vietnow National Headquarters—Donations: $18.1 million/Solicitor Profits: $15.9 million

20. Police Protective Fund—Donations: $34.9 million/Solicitor Profits: $14.8 million

21. National Cancer Coalition—Donations $41.5 million/Solicitor Profits: $14.0 million

22. Woman To Woman Breast Cancer Foundation—Donations: $14.5 million/Solicitor Profits: $13.7 million

23. American Foundation For Disabled Children—Donations: $16.4 million/Solicitor Profits: $13.4 million

24. The Veterans Fund—Donations: $15.7 million/Solicitor Profits: $12.9 million

25. Heart Support of America—Donations: $33.0 million/Solicitor Profits: $11.0 million

26. Veterans Assistance Foundation – Donations: $12.2 million/Solicitor Profits: $11.0 million

27. Children's Charity Fund—Donations: $14.3 million/ Solicitor Profits: $10.5 million

28. Wishing Well Foundation USA—Donations: $12.4 million /Solicitor Profits: $9.8 million

29. Defeat Diabetes Foundation—Donations: $13.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $8.3 million

30. Disabled Police Officers of America Inc.—Donations: $10.3 million /Solicitor Profits:$8.1 million

31. National Police Defense Foundation—Donations: $9.9 million/Solicitor Profits: $7.8 million

32. American Association of the Deaf & Blind—Donations: $10.3 million/Solicitor Profits: $7.8 million

33. Reserve Police Officers Association—Donations: $8.7 million/Solicitor Profits: $7.7 million

34. Optimal Medical Foundation—Donations: $7.9 million/Solicitor Profits: $7.6 million

35. Disabled Police and Sheriffs Foundation—Donations:$9.0 million/Solicitor Profits:$7.6 million

36. Disabled Police Officers Counseling Center—Donations:$8.2 million/Solicitor Profits:$6.9 million

37. Children's Leukemia Research Association—Donations: $9.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $6.8 million

38. United Breast Cancer Foundation—Donations: $11.6 million/Solicitor Profits: $6.6 million

39. Shiloh International Ministries—Donations: $8.0 million/Solicitor Profits:$6.2 million

40. Circle of Friends For American Veterans—Donations: $7.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $5.7 million

41. Find the Children—Donations: $7.6 million/ Solicitor Profits: $5.0 million

42. Survivors and Victims Empowered—Donations: $7.7 million/Solicitor Profits: $4.8 million

43. Firefighters Assistance Fund—Donations: $5.6 million/Solicitor Profits: $4.6 million

44. Caring for Our Children Foundation—Donations:$4.7 million /Solicitor Profits: $4.1 million

45. National Narcotic Officers Associations Coalition—Donations: $4.8 million/Solicitor Profits: $4.0 million

46. American Foundation for Children With Aids—Donations:$5.2 million/Solicitor Profits: $3.0 million

47. Our American Veterans—Donations:$2.6 million/Solicitor Profits: $2.3 million

48. Roger Wyburn-Mason & Jack M Blount Foundation For Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease—Donations: $8.4 million/Solicitor Profits: $1.8 million

49. Firefighters Burn Fund—Donations: $2.0 million/Solicitor Profits: $1.7 million

50. Hope Cancer Fund—Donations: $1.9 million/Solicitor Profits: $1.6 million

[livetohike]

1. Thanks for posting this. I am printing it and

giving it to my elderly Mother, who probably has donated to every single one of these organizations over the years. She has dementia and I can't stop this, but I keep trying.

[Mosby]

2. kick

[BrotherIvan]

3. Just speechless

[tcfrogs]

4. Not heard of most of them n/t

[Pugee]

5. Wow

I am so disappointed in the Cancer Fund of America! I have always talked them up! They ship lots of things to us free of charge for our non-profit hospice families.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. i am not sure these are the right metrics to judge a non-profit

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. i am not sure i agree with these measures of effectiveness

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html

[hfojvt]

8. I had to stop listening

when he started crying about the poor charity CEO only making $200,000 a year.

I don't really believe that some people have $600,000 talent. Although, I am sure the rich SOBs who make $600,000 a year want to tell themselves, and sell all of us plebes on the idea that they DO have $600,000 talent.

This guy is just sorta giving another version of "Atlas shrugged". That charity is not effective because we don't pay enough to give the Atlases the incentive to save us all.

To me, that is an idea worth flushing down the toilet.

[superpatriotman]

9. +1

Lots of people are getting very rich from "love" and "compassion"

[RebelOne]

10. CNN is right now doing a short piece on the Cancer Fund of America

and what crooks they are. No one would grant an interview. n/t

[L0oniX]

11. Please remember that Meals On Wheels is NOT one of these...

and PLEASE DONATE TO THEM.

[CatholicEdHead]

12. What's up with the International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO?

They better change their ways, they are helping give unions a bad name with this.