Charity Navigator, America's premier independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of America's largest charities. Charity Navigator's ratings are accessible at no charge at www.charitynavigator.org and catalog the financial health of over 5,000 of America's best-known charities. 

The Charity Navigator rating system uses publicly available tax returns (Forms 990) filed with the Internal Revenue Service to evaluate a charity’s overall financial health. Specifically, Charity Navigator looks at an organization’s fundraising efficiency, fundraising expenses, program expenses and administration expenses to show users how efficiently the charity operates on a day-to-day basis. To assess the charity’s capacity to sustain its programs over time, Charity Navigator looks at average annual growth of operating revenue, average annual growth of programs and services and working capital ratio. Based upon how the charity rates in each area, it is assigned a zero- to four-star rating.

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