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    A smaller slice of the pie

    North Carolina law doesn’t specify how much money professional fundraisers have to return to charities, according to the state Department of Justice. But those fundraisers do have to report to the Secretary of State’s office the percentage of money they raise that goes to charity.

    As North Carolinians open their wallets for charity this holiday season, they might be surprised to learn where some of their money actually goes.

     

    A new report from the Secretary of State’s office shows that when professional fundraisers solicited charitable donations in North Carolina last fiscal year, nonprofits got just 61 cents of every dollar raised. The rest went to cover fundraisers’ expenses, fees and commissions.

     

    Some nonprofits fare well in campaigns run by professional fundraisers. The Save the Children Federation, for instance, got 95% of the roughly $59,000 raised from North Carolinians last year by InfoCision, Inc., an Ohio-based fundraiser.

     

    But in more than 100 fundraising campaigns in North Carolina, the intended charities wound up with less than 30% of the money raised.

     

     

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