I wonder how much of that donated 19 dollars a month actually goes to its intended purpose.
I only donate to st Jude hospital because kids and families get travel and treatment free. They openly state 82 cents of every dollar goes to the hospital needs. And because the families aren't charged I can at least know the money is being used for its purposes.
I used to do remodel and handyman stuff for a older woman that used to be a senior vice president for a bank for like 40 years. She volunteered for a large annual charity running their finances for them. She quit the first year when she found out some really low percent went to the charity. The rest was used to pay event organizers, advertising, and to pay the people who ran the charity. So they would cheer for raising say 1 million dollars for a charity but only like 10% of it actually went to the charity.
The REAL target is to get you to agree to a monthly draw on your credit card, no matter how small. Once they have that, they have a relatively stable revenue stream so they can do whatever it is they intend to do. As a DONOR, your concern should be that your donation money goes primarily to the purpose that you support, and not to fundraising and administration.
I found that out the hard way.
I was in the army and my mom donated to the wounded warrior project trying to do something good. This was years ago.
Year or more ago she developed Parkinson's and slight dementia to the point I took over all her finances and set all her bills up and such.
After digging through her different accounts I found where originally donated 200 bucks to wounded warriors. Well it was in a account she didn't ever use, it wasn't a primary. Looking back they took every month 200, then 300, then 600, when I saw it they had taken 1,150 dollars. They took like 43,000 dollars from her but due to her declining health she didn't pay attention or was aware.
I called them and the response was "she gave us permission, we can take what we want" then tried to guilt trip me by saying "don't you want to help wounded veterans".
I went back and forth with her bank for 3 days trying to get the money back. Finally they just closed the account and opened a new one and transferred the money when we realized we weren't getting it back.
In the end they stole from her and there was nothing I could. I was so ******* angry and mad at them, I was hateful everytime I spoke to them.
I'll never forgive them for that shit. Not just because they stole from my mom, but because they did it under the guise of helping veterans which really burned my biscuits.
I'll never, ever give my personal info to a charity.
