I was planning to donate the couple bucks I had left over from the year to the charity called “San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance”, I was doing a background check on CharityNavigator and they gave the charity full ratings so it seemed good.
Then I stumbled upon the salary section. What the fuck? I earn <20k a year and was planning to contribute to someone’s million dollar salary? WHAT.
No affiliation, and I’ve never donated to them, but their financials are far from the worst:
There are many charities that don’t spend the majority of donations on the actual program. Like, wtf…