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Originally Posted by GeoGeo
Is this information accurate and been verified by anyone else? I know I have seen things on the internet on what I may have thought were reliable sites that had inaccurate information. And do we know what their expenses are? I know I volunteered with a rescue and it looked like they made good money, but they also had a lot of vet bills. No idea what the cost of running a shelter would be.
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There are 2 well known websites that review and rate charities, Charity Navigator and Guidestar. You can also read any charity's IRS annual filings, known as Form 990. There are thousands, if not millions, of 501c3 charities. Some are good and some are not. I always use this public information before donating to a charity. Note that the IRS issues a 501c3 status to a charity based on their mission, but they impose no requirement on the charity to have any efficiency or effectiveness at all.