This website/organization analyzes and reports on the financial health and efficiency of charities and nonprofits in the United States. Their free financial analysis and ratings focus on how responsibly a charity functions.
www.charitynavigator.org

Charity Navigator is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, was founded in 2001, and has become the largest evaluator of America's charities. Their website states that their team of analysts has examined thousands of non-profit organizations and financial documents. They have used this knowledge and information to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based ratings system to better understand the financial status of over 5,000 of America's best-known charities and nonprofits.

Charity Navigator
1200 MacArthur Boulevard, 2nd floor
Mahwah, New Jersey 07430
201.818.1288

They provide unbiased reviews and accept no funding from the charities they evaluate. This helps to ensure that the ratings remain objective. Also in an effort to help philanthropists make informed charitable giving decisions, they state that they do not charge their users for this data. Make the best decision on top charity organizations based on your altruism objectives.

Their mission is to guide intelligent charitable giving. They help charitable givers make informed and intelligent giving decisions by providing them with information on over five thousand charities and by evaluating the financial health of each of those charities. They make the evaluations easy to understand and freely available to the public. They believe that by guiding intelligent charitible giving, they can advance a more efficient philanthropic marketplace, where givers and the charities they support work in tandem to overcome the nation's persistent challenges.