Charity navigator makes no attempt to see if the charity is doing anything useful. It "rates" charities based mostly on their overhead, which has reasonably be

Charity navigator makes no attempt to see if the charity is doing anything useful. It "rates" charities based mostly on their overhead, which has reasonably been called "The worst way to pick a charity" https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a-charity/ https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a... Under this rating system, a charity that collects money and burns it would be rated highly so long as you didn't pay the guy tending the fire very much.