Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today that it has been awarded an A+ rating by CharityWatch, a leading independent charity-rating organization, in its recently released ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The holidays are big time of year for many charities, as people generously give back to worthy causes. However, not all charities are what they appear to be, so it is important to do ...

The Form 990 tax document below highlights some of the areas that CharityWatch examines in evaluating nonprofits. But the watchdog goes beyond the information provided on the 990 when awarding its ...

How CharityWatch responded: Daniel Borochoff, CharityWatch’s founder, was among the most vocal critics of the American Red Cross following the September 11 attacks, charging that the Red Cross and ...

You need to be as rigorous in vetting nonprofits for accounting chicanery as you are with public companies trading on the stock exchanges. Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, is a 96-year-old ...

Churchgoers and other charitable givers eager to aid tsunami victims in South Asia have often sent money to well-known agencies or those linked to their religious affiliation. When charities seek ...

Four cancer charities—Cancer Fund of America and three affiliated groups—were recently accused by the Federal Trade Commission of bilking consumers out of $187 million from 2008 through 2012 and doing ...