![]() It’s possible to dig up financial filings and then compare financial efficiency ratios to the five food banks on our list. Say you’re looking at donating to a local food bank. The Forbes list covers a wide range of categories, including health care, domestic and international needs, environmental, animal welfare, religious and youth. The ratios for a museum or foreign aid provider can’t be usefully compared with those of, say, a hospital or a single-illness charity.īut in the same category, the ratios can be very helpful in analysis. Which leads to our annual caution: Don’t compare efficiency ratios for different kinds of charities. Therein lies the value of the Forbes list in helping to evaluate similar charities not on the list. We also avoid nonprofits with very few direct donors (such as virtually every private foundation) and charities that receive most of their donations indirectly from federated campaigns, community chests and such vehicles.įor each of the 100 charities on our list, we calculate three financial efficiency ratios, also indicating the direction of change from the prior year if available. Among them: purely academic institutions (which tend to concentrate on their own alumni), donor-advised funds often run by some of the big financial companies (which are not operating charities but a holding vehicle for money that will eventually go to an operating charity), and the many religious entities that aren’t required to make public their financial information (an obvious exclusion). Since our list trends toward charities that appeal to the general public, we don’t evaluate certain categories of nonprofits. Everything else coming in is included in other revenue, and the three categories summed as total revenue. For each charity we list separately private support and government support. So we don’t count as a private donation membership dues, reasoning that the donor/member is receiving a thing of value, like reduced admission fees for a museum. Photo by Antwon McCullen.To be counted by us, a contribution must be based on pure charitable intent, with the donor getting back nothing beyond the satisfaction of supporting a favored cause. Header photo: Three young women celebrate Juneteenth in Grant Park, Chicago on June 19, 2020. In-person event 6/17: Community Day ( Washington DC)įree virtual event 6/17 : Celebrating Juneteenth - KIDS CRAFTįree virtual event 6/24: Juneteenth Summit: Blacks & Jews Alliance for Justice and Liberation Search “Juneteenth” and your city or state to find celebrations and ways to volunteer near you Take Action: Environmental Justice Events: 'Black Nature': Poems Of Promise And Survivalīlack Americans’ Connection to Land Leads to Serenity Shop Black Owned: Green America Environment:Ĩ Black Leaders Who've Revolutionized the Climate Movement The Investing Industry Takes On Economic Justice How Systemic Racism Keeps Black Americans Out of Investing History of Juneteenth: Information for kidsįrom Juneteenth to Reparations: Reclaiming Our Stolen Stories We hope the information, events, actions, and suggestions of Black-led organizations to support will strengthen your commemoration of Juneteenth. The significance of Juneteenth is more relevant now than ever, because “freedom” is represented in Black communities through their influence, art, music, and cultural foods. This brought liberation to Black Texans (and Black Americans everywhere). Juneteenth marks the 19th day in June 1865, when Black people in Galveston, Texas were informed-two years after the Emancipation Proclamation-that slavery was abolished, and the Civil War had ended. The legacy of Black Americans is often overlooked by this country, which is why July 4th is not the day that marks their independence, June 19th is! For Black people this has been a holiday celebrated for years. But this day isn’t about a free day off work or no school. In 2021, Juneteenth became a national holiday-for many this was their first time hearing about the holiday.
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