10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers
These 10 charities spend more than 50% of their budgets paying for-profit fundraising professionals to solicit your hard-earned money. They are ranked by the percentage of their total functional expenses spent on professional fundraising fees. As a result, very little of the charity's spending is directed towards its programs and services.
| Rank | Charity | Program Expenses | Professional Fundraising Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer Survivors' Fund | 8.5% | 88.1% |
| 2 | The Committee for Missing Children | 5.7% | 86.0% |
| 3 | Firefighters Charitable Foundation | 8.4% | 83.8% |
| 4 | Childhood Leukemia Foundation | 17.4% | 79.0% |
| 5 | Kids Wish Network | 14.1% | 63.2% |
| 6 | HonorBound Foundation | 17.7% | 54.2% |
| 7 | Purple Heart Foundation | 23.6% | 51.7% |
| 8 | Veterans Support Foundation | 25.1% | 43.4% |
| 9 | Find the Children | 26.5% | 38.7% |
| 10 | National Police Defense Foundation | 54.5% | 28.6% |
