Talk:Charity Navigator

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Repeated removal of portion of methodology section

A while back, I noticed that a portion of the methodology section providing some balance on Charity Navigator's methodology had been deleted without explanation, so I revised that segment to make it more neutral and replaced it. Since then, an anonymous user has twice removed this portion without comment. I firmly believe that this section belongs in this article to provide an informed view of Charity Navigator's methods. If there's a reason for the repeated removal, I'd like to hear it articulated. Ashdog137 20:12, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the section you're talking about did indeed become part of the article. Thanks! ★NealMcB★ (talk) 01:55, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

last word

I assume the word in the last sentence of the article should be 'against' not 'again'. L.M. 3/22/2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.182.247.112 (talk) 14:47, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Self-promotion for donations

I think it's a bit sad that there are some very prominent donation buttons on their front page, which are all to donate to charity navigator itself. One of them says: "By donating to us you are helping us to inform our millions of users of the best charities of all kinds. Therefore, supporting us leverages your dollars to do the most good!" Sounds fishy. JustJohan (talk) 07:35, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It seems fine to me, Wikipedia does the same thing once a year. It takes resource inputs to keep things going, without that they're going to exhaust their available resources and eventually won't be able to maintain their operations. It's not shady, it's normal. Indefensible (talk) 05:04, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Investigation of Charity Navigator

I am aware of some groups investigating Charity Navigator for deviating from GAAP (Generally accepted accounting principles), rewarding groups that accept government funding, punishing groups that operate according to free market principles, and discourage giving to conservative organizations. While it appears that definitive results from these investigations are still pending, I do think it would be worthwhile to include a section about the fact that Charity Navigator's evaluation practices have been called into question. Cghake (talk) 20:29, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for relaying this unattributed rumor. Please see WP:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:No original research. —BarrelProof (talk) 19:52, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Abandoned the wheel? 230,000? 195K?

Do they STILL evaluate 230,000 charities? It seems they have dropped the ball? They have an entry with no data (beyond an address) for a charity I went to their site to look up.

Even ProPublica has more data on the charity than they do: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/463613849 (Not recommending the charity, - far from - just surprised.) I'm surprised Charity Navigator don't even have basic info, including IMPORTANT info I found at IRS.gov.

IRS is sometimes way better.

I looked 'em up by name at https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/details/ and find IMPORTANT info that suggests to me Charity Navigator has abandoned what I recall was a big part of its core mission : providing digestible basic info based on IRS filings on all 501(c)3's. The IRS site shows the charity I looked up's federal tax exempt status was REVOKED in 2016 and 2022. The LEAST Charity Navigator could do is to note the REVOKED status on their site, after obtaining all info on all charities from the IRS!? Surely they get core data on all charities in IRS files from the IRS via API or FOIA..?

Charity Navigator can't even keep track of how many charities it claims to evaluate! The HTML source of their about us page describes it thus: "Charity Navigator is the world's largest & most trusted nonprofit evaluator with 195K+ rated charities" and so that appears in a google search. But text on that and on the home page claims 225K+ CHARITIES RATED. Tagging the qty in the article as dubious.

You'd think with the over $8 million they spend a year (per their listing of themselves) they could at least be providing digestible basic info based on IRS filings on all 501(c)3's no?

But, <what BarrelProof said above>. RememberOrwell (talk) 16:04, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]