It is interesting that "National Breast Cancer Research Center" is a DBA (Doing Business As) name for the Walker Cancer Research Center out of Aberdeen, MD. They are registered in Florida as a charitble organization (Registration #CH47) and their latest filings with the State of Florida show that 52% of all money they raise goes towards fund raising activities, 1% goes to Administrative overhead, and 47% of their money goes to their program service expenses (i.e. this is what part of each donation is actually used for the organizations stated purpose). Probably not the best use of your charitable donation since less than half of your donation actually goes to charitable work and it is not local (Maryland-based).
The best way to check a charity out for Florida residents in through the Department of Agriculture web site. Every charity must register and must show how much of their money goes to fund raising, administration, and to support their activity. The web site to check out a charity is:
http://csapp.800helpfla.com/cspublic...versquery.aspx