For donors
Know where your money goes
Before you donate, check GiveRadar. We give you the data you need to find small local charities you never would have discovered through search engines, verify that any charity is legitimate and transparent, and understand where your money actually goes.
What to look for in a charity
Integrity assessment
Every charity on GiveRadar has an integrity assessment from 0 to 100, based on financial health, transparency, and governance. Higher scores indicate stronger operational basics. This measures transparency and governance, not program impact.
Overhead ratio
The overhead ratio shows what percentage of spending goes to administration and fundraising versus programs. Most efficient charities have overhead below 25%. Above 40% deserves a closer look, though context matters: startup charities and small local organizations often have higher ratios that do not necessarily indicate problems.
Executive Compensation
GiveRadar shows CEO and top officer pay for millions of charities. High compensation is not automatically bad, but if the CEO makes more than the charity spends on programs, that is a red flag.
Red flags
Our system automatically flags charities with concerning patterns: unusually high executive pay, low program spending, missing financial filings, or sanctions matches.
Finding small local charities
Most donor research tools are built for verifying large, well-known charities. GiveRadar is different: we make small local organizations findable too.
If you want to support a children's charity in the Philippines, a community health project in Nepal, or an education program in Kenya, you can search GiveRadar and see options that never appear in Google results.
We currently cover over 7 million+ charities in 65+ countries, including many small, registered local organizations that have no English-language presence online. Data is pulled directly from official government registries, so you can verify a small local charity is legitimately registered before you give.
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