Which named charities are on CharityWatch's Top‑Rated list and what program percentages does CharityWatch report for each?

1. What “Top‑Rated” means and how CharityWatch computes program percentages

CharityWatch’s Top‑Rated list is explicitly tied to quantitative thresholds: a charity is considered “highly efficient” when its calculated Program Percentage is 75% or greater and its Cost to Raise $100 is $25 or less, after CharityWatch performs in‑depth analysis and adjustments to the charity’s financial documents ^{[2] [1]}. CharityWatch explains that its Program Percentage is the share of a charity’s cash budget spent on programs — computed after removing distortions such as overvalued in‑kind gifts, related‑party transactions, and jointly allocated costs that other organizations might count as program expenses ^{[2] [7]}.

2. Named charities that appear in CharityWatch’s public Top‑Rated material

CharityWatch’s public pages and blog posts explicitly cite several named organizations as Top‑Rated or highly rated: RAINN is mentioned on the site as Top‑Rated ^[3], B’nai B’rith International is shown on its charity page and described as “This charity is Top‑Rated” on CharityWatch’s site ^[4], and Save the Children is listed on its own site as having an A‑ rating from CharityWatch ^[5]. Other organizations — for example Convoy of Hope — are indexed on or linked from CharityWatch’s site in ways that indicate presence in the watchdog’s database, though the publicly visible snippets stop short of showing full Top‑Rated seals or program percentages without clicking through ^{[8] [6]}.

3. The gap between named lists and published numeric program percentages

While CharityWatch promotes a Top‑Rated list and provides individual charity reports, the full numeric breakdowns — the site’s adjusted Program Percentage for each named charity and the precise Cost to Raise $100 — are typically published on the charity-specific report pages, and CharityWatch’s gated content model means some details require logging in or joining to view the complete report ^{[6] [8]}. CharityWatch itself warns donors to scrutinize program percentages and fundraising claims because different raters and charities calculate them differently, which is why CharityWatch applies its own adjustments before reporting a Program % ^{[7] [2]}.

4. Alternative viewpoints and caveats from other raters and critics

Other charity raters use different methods — some automated pull‑and‑divide approaches or crowdsourced self‑assessments — which can produce different program percentage figures and lead to diverging top lists; CharityWatch contrasts its manual adjustments to those methods and warns that some platforms may award seals without the same financial scrutiny ^{[9] [7]}. Consumer Reports and other guides note CharityWatch’s depth but also point out that full CharityWatch reports require payment or registration to access, creating an access barrier that can shape which numeric claims are widely cited in public reporting ^{[10] [6]}.

5. Bottom line and what can be verified from the available reporting

From CharityWatch’s own pages it is verifiable that the Top‑Rated designation is tied to a Program Percentage threshold of about 75% and a Cost to Raise $100 cap of $25, and that named charities such as RAINN and B’nai B’rith International are presented by CharityWatch as Top‑Rated or highly efficient in the site’s snippets ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}. However, comprehensive, charity‑by‑charity program percentage numbers that CharityWatch reports for each named entry are located on individual report pages and, in many cases, behind login or membership gates on the CharityWatch site, so those specific percentages cannot be exhaustively reproduced here from the publicly available snippets alone ^{[6] [8]}.