Charity Navigator

Charity Navigator: Nonprofit Charity Evaluation

Nonprofit charity evaluation and review website providing financial health, accountability, and transparency ratings for over 8,000 charities in the United States.

What is Charity Navigator?

Charity Navigator is a major charity assessment organization in the United States. It was founded in 2001 by John P. Dugan, a philanthropist and former executive at salesforce.com. The goal of Charity Navigator is to help donors make informed giving decisions and enable well-run charities to attract support.

Charity Navigator evaluates over 8,000 charities in the U.S. across a variety of causes. It rates each charity on two dimensions - financial health and accountability/transparency - resulting in an overall score between 0 and 100. These ratings are based on an analysis of each charity's tax forms and other documentation. Charity Navigator also compiles informative, unbiased reviews of the charities in its database.

The website CharityNavigator.org provides all this information freely to individual donors, corporations, foundations and academic researchers. Donors can browse charities by cause or location, view rankings of top charities, and compare multiple organizations side by side. The data and ratings aim to provide confidence to donors that their money will be used efficiently and effectively.

Over the past 20 years, Charity Navigator has become an influential player in the nonprofit world. Its ratings and data provide an accountability mechanism, incentivizing charities to improve their practices. Many leading philanthropic institutions and donors use Charity Navigator to guide their giving.

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