Charities With the Highest Income Growth Top 10 List
Which nonprofits with incomes above $10M had the highest income growth over the last 4 years? Find out in this top ten list.
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- Charity Evaluations
- Measuring Outcomes
- Grantmaking Strategies
- Philanthropy Trends
Blog Posts: Charity Evaluations
Intelligent Charitable Giving: New Way to Check Nonprofit Efficiency & Effectiveness
Where can donors get answers to their questions about charity efficiency and effectiveness? Nonprofit Analytics. Nonprofit Analytics now publishes up-to-date answers to the most common questions donors ask.
1. What is the impact?
2. Growth in last 3 years?
3. How is money spent?
4. Is fundraising efficient?
No other online platform tackles all these important questions. Only Nonprofit Analytics presents up-to-date nonprofit performance in one simple page. Nonprofit Analytics still offers 160 data points about leadership, finances, strategy and impact via downloadable 2-page nonprofit Analytical Overviews for paid subscribers. However, donors who want the highlights without all the numbers and trend lines can now get what they want for free. Nonprofit Analytics’s 2013 release of nonprofit effectiveness and efficiency data finally makes it possible to give wisely without investing much time.
How to Evaluate Charity Impact
Impact measurement has been dubbed the Holy Grail of all social enterprise. If non-profit and for-profit social enterprises could capture the lasting difference made from all the meetings, projects, programs, fundraisers, volunteers, budgets and staff, we would have arrived. We would know if all the donations, charity walks, social media campaigns, grant proposals and collaborative partnerships are worth it. Not surprisingly, no one has found a short cut to universal impact measurement. There is no simple formula that determines whether a charity is ‘high impact,’ I believe there are a few specific steps to take when assessing any non-profit’s impact.
Organizational Health Standard #3: Financial Sustainability (Part 3 of 6)
High performing nonprofits develop careful strategies for creating consistent revenue to sustain operations. Donors do not want to support an organization one year and see its programs collapse the next year from insufficient funding. Great organizations with bold visions and effective programs understand that sustainable revenue streams are mission-critical. Finding out if organizations you support will sustain themselves is step 3 in our 6-step process for evaluating nonprofit performance.
Best Online Charity Evaluation Platform Gets Better: Nonprofit Analytics
Do you want to know if charities you support operate efficiently and effectively in pursuit of their mission? You can. The best online charity evaluation platform just got better. The 2-page nonprofit Analytical Overviews from Nonprofit Analytics have added 30 entry fields for a total of 150 up-to-date data points on organizational health and performance. Check out a sample 2012 edition Analytical Overview. There is no more comprehensive and concise overview of a charity’s leadership, financial management, strategy and impact available on the internet anywhere. New nonprofit information in the 2012 edition Analytical Overviews include…
Organizational Health Standard #2: Financial Management
High performing nonprofits must understand how to manage their money. Charities cannot promise great things to supporters and run out of resources along the way. A delicate balance of maintaining healthy reserves, minimizing debt, and sticking to a budget is required. Donors don’t want a bait-and-switch where increased donations go to debt service or get stockpiled in the bank without any increased impact. And no one can tolerate financial mismanagement where an organization lives in the red with unrealistic budgets or doesn’t put the majority of its funds into mission-related activities.
Nonprofit Analytics cited as major “charity evaluator” in RELEVANT Magazine
Just days before Nonprofit Analytics turns 1 year old, we have finally been recognized as one of 8 major online charity evaluation and accountability organizations. RELEVANT Magazine published an article “Where Do Your Donations Go?” and listed Nonprofit Analytics alongside Guidestar and GiveWell. Admittedly, the author chose to highlight and interview Charity Navigator and ECFA leaders. But the citation in a 3rd party publication is a step in the right direction for what we believe is the best all-around charity evaluation platform available.
Organizational Health Standard #1: Leadership
Where do you start when evaluating the health of a nonprofit organization? Incessant headlines about dishonest educational programs, irresponsible board governance, misleading cancer charities, and corrupt first responder foundations remind us a little assessment can go a long way. But most of us don’t have time for detailed due diligence. So where do we begin a cursory evaluation of nonprofit infrastructure and impact?
Giving poorly can be worse than not giving at all
What if your donation to fight human trafficking paid the salary of a human trafficker? What if your donation to support widowed law enforcement families went to a felon’s bank account? What if your child sponsorship monthly donation and letters never helped the girl in the picture? What if you gave money to loan to a struggling entrepreneur in Africa that was actually embezzled by loan officers? In the last year, I have seen each one of these nightmares come true. It could have been avoided. Read how in my latest Alliance magazine article Giving poorly can be worse than not giving at all.
The Rebirth of Generosity: A response to Leon Neyfakh’s Boston Globe article “Why We Give to Charity”
When people think more, they are less generous. How do you feel about that? Leon Neyfakh promotes this hypothesis in his new Boston Globe article “Why We Give to Charity.” Nonprofit service organizations like Law For Change and Campbell & Company have posted the provocative article for website visitors to read. It has been swirling around philanthropy-related twitter feeds for all to see. I bumped into it on a daily news blast from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. I loved its trend-bucking subversion. But I found its case truly unconvincing. So much so, I’m firing back with some neglected facts in the oversimplified case.