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Charity Navigator

Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator logo.png
Formation 2001
Founder John Patrick Dugan
Type Nonprofit corporation
Legal status Active
Purpose Charity evaluation
Headquarters Glen Rock, New Jersey
Official language
English
Michael Thatcher
Vincent Bogucki
CFO and vice president of marketing
Nancy Sadek
Matt Giegerich (vice-chairperson) et al.
Main organ
charitynavigator.org
Slogan Your guide to intelligent giving
Website www.charitynavigator.org

Charity Navigator is an American independent charity watchdog organization that evaluates charitable organizations in the United States. Its stated goal is "to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace in which givers and the charities they support work in tandem to overcome our nation’s and the world’s most persistent challenges".

Charity Navigator was launched in spring 2001 by John P. (Pat) Dugan, a wealthy pharmaceutical executive and philanthropist. The group's mission was to help "...donors make informed giving decisions and enabling well-run charities to demonstrate their commitment to proper stewardship" of donor dollars. Initially, Charity Navigator provided financial ratings for 1,100 charities, and has data on 8,000 as of mid-2016.

The site also features opinion pieces (articles and two blog sites) by Charity Navigator experts, donation tips, and top-10 and bottom-10 lists that rank efficient and inefficient organizations in a number of categories. Annually, Charity Navigator conducts a national study to determine and analyze any statistical differences that exist in the financial practices of charities in metropolitan markets across America.

The service is free, and the site is navigable by charity name, location or type of activity. Charity Navigator is a 501(c)(3) organization that accepts no advertising or donations from the organizations it evaluates.

In 2006 Time magazine named it in one of the 50 top websites of the year. In 2011, Kiplinger's Personal Finance selected Charity Navigator as a Money Management Innovation for "helping millions of people become philanthropists", putting it in the same category as Mint.com, TurboTax and Mobile Banking Apps.

In a September 15, 2014 Chronicle of Philanthropy interview on the non-profit sector, Nicholas Kristof identified Charity Navigator with a trend he deplored. "There is too much emphasis on inputs and not enough on impact," Kristof said. "This has been worsened by an effort to create more accountability through sites like Charity Navigator. There is so much emphasis now on expense ratios that there is an underinvestment in administration and efficiency."


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