Column: Look Before You Leap When it Comes to Holiday Charitable Donations – latimes.com

LOS ANGELES (Dec. 20, 2021) “This is the season for giving to charities — and maybe throwing your money away.”

“The good news is that charities overall received 82% of the haul, 3.4% higher than in 2019 and 13.2% more than five years earlier.”

“At the upper end, these charities received at least 90% of their donations: Everytown for Gun Safety, Food for the Poor, Habitat for Humanity International, Save the Children Federation, International Fellowship of Christians & Jews, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Sierra Club.”

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