- With 13 4-star ratings, The Children's Aid Society has the most consecutive 4-star ratings.
- The charities we rate received more than $108 billion in donations in their most recent fiscal year.
- The charities we rate spend on average 80% of their budgets on their programs and services . Only 4% of these charities spend less than 60% on their programs.
- The highest compensation received by a CEO of these charities was $3.9 million; however, the median CEO compensation was a much lower figure of $125,000.
- We have issued more than 100 Donor Advisories.
- More than half of the charities we rate have accumulated at least a year's worth of working capital (rainy day funds). Only 5% of the charities have less than 1 month's worth of working capital.
- Currently, 28% of the charities we rate have a 4-star rating and 1% have a 0-star rating.
- 37% of the charities we rate don't have a donor privacy policy which means they are likely to sell, trade or share their donors' contact information.
- Although we only rate charities that have 501 (c ) (3) public charity status and are thus based in the U.S., for more than 1,000 of them, the scope of their work is international.
- The most frequent question we're asked is: "When are you going to rate charity XYZ?"
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