Article: Ralph - Where Your Charitable Donations Go?

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Did you ever wonder about where your charitable donations go or what a charitable association does?

In Canada:

You can find a significant amount of information on the Canada Revenue Agency Website.  They have a new graph feature that visually shows you how much money is raised, from where,  and  where the organization spends their dollars:

• Canada  Revenue Agency Search for Charitable Organizations Tax Return
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta
• Canadian Stroke Recovery Association - Charitable Status Revoked
• Stroke Recovery Association of BC
• Burnaby South Stroke Recovery Club
• North Shore Stroke Recovery Centre
• White Rock South Surrey Stroke Recovery Club
• Stroke Recovery Association of Alberta
• Stroke Recovery Association of Edmonton
• Stroke Recovery Association of Calgary
• Stroke Recovery Association of Medicine Hat

In United States America:

If you are in the United States,  Charity Navigator will give you an even  better breakdown of charitable fundraising and where your charitable dollars are spent.

Charity Navigator Rates the Charities.

How Do We Rate Charities?

We rate charities by evaluating two broad areas of performance; their Financial Health and their Accountability & Transparency. Our ratings show givers how efficiently we believe a charity will use their support today, how well it has sustained its programs and services over time and their level of commitment to being accountable and transparent. In the not-too-distant future, we plan to also rate charities’ reporting of their results. We provide these ratings so that givers can make intelligent giving decisions, and so that the philanthropic community can more effectively monitor itself.

• Various stroke organizations rated by Charity Navigator.
• An example of how Charity Navigator rates Stroke Organizations.
• What happens when we search for “Aphasia”? An example of how Charity Navigator rates a charitable organization that helps people with aphasia.