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GiveWell

American charity

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Nov 12, 2025
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What is the average administrative cost percentage for charities in the US?

The available analyses show there is for U.S. charities; instead, common benchmarks and reported ranges cluster between roughly , with an upper donor-safety guideline often cited at . Different review...

Oct 5, 2025
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Which charities have the lowest administrative cost percentages?

Charity ratings and reports indicate that charities with the lowest administrative-cost percentages are typically those that spend , a threshold reported by CharityWatch and reflected across multiple ...

Dec 4, 2025
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What percentage of donations do top US charities spend on administration vs programs?

There is no single national percentage that “top US charities” universally spend on administration versus programs; common guidance ranges from programs consuming 65–75% of budgets while administratio...

Jan 16, 2026

Which international charities had the highest program-to-expense ratios in 2024?

For 2024, independent ratings and major lists point to a small group of international relief charities reporting exceptionally high program-to-expense ratios, with Direct Relief singled out by Forbes ...

Nov 14, 2025

Can charities with high administrative costs still be effective in their missions?

Charities with high administrative or “overhead” costs can still be effective — multiple analyses show there is no reliable, simple correlation between low overhead and high impact, and in several dat...

Jan 19, 2026

Verified Direct support accepting donation funds

There is no mention of an organization called “Verified Direct” in the provided reporting, so this analysis cannot confirm whether “Verified Direct” is accepting donation funds; instead, it lays out a...

Jan 8, 2026

Which US charities have the lowest administrative expenses?

Finding “which US charities have the lowest administrative expenses” is less a simple ranking and more a question about metrics and trade-offs: some organizations report single-digit administrative ra...

Dec 8, 2025

How do reporting standards (Form 990, charity evaluators) impact overhead comparisons?

Form 990 is the public tax return that most U.S. charities must file and it supplies the raw numbers charity evaluators like Charity Navigator, GuideStar (Candid) and ProPublica’s databases use to pro...

Nov 29, 2025

Are there independent investigations or NGOs reporting increased deaths tied to USAID funding cuts?

Independent researchers and NGOs have produced multiple analyses and trackers estimating large increases in deaths tied to abrupt USAID funding cuts: a peer‑reviewed modeling study projects more than ...