How Charity Navigator publishes ratings donors can inspect

It describes itself as a large, widely used evaluator and says it rates more than 200,000 charities.

Charity Navigator is an independent nonprofit that evaluates other charities so donors can compare them before they give.

Ratings and related information are meant to make a crowded nonprofit field easier to understand. The organization does not itself run food, health, or disaster programs. Its role is informational: publish assessments that help people decide where support is likely to be used well, and explain how those ratings are built.

Charity Navigator presents this as ongoing work rather than a single event. The public category Looty Foundation uses, Charity Evaluation, is a browsing label. It is not a substitute for the organization's own account of who it serves and how.

It describes itself as a large, widely used evaluator and says it rates more than 200,000 charities. That is point 1 in the public account behind “How Charity Navigator publishes ratings donors can inspect.” It describes Charity Navigator’s own work on evaluates charity transparency, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about charity evaluation.

Charity Navigator is an independent nonprofit that evaluates other charities so donors can compare them before they give. That is point 2 in the public account behind “How Charity Navigator publishes ratings donors can inspect.” It describes Charity Navigator’s own work on evaluates charity transparency, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about charity evaluation.

It describes itself as a large, widely used evaluator and says it rates more than 200,000 charities. That is point 3 in the public account behind “How Charity Navigator publishes ratings donors can inspect.” It describes Charity Navigator’s own work on evaluates charity transparency, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about charity evaluation.

Ratings and related information are meant to make a crowded nonprofit field easier to understand. That is point 4 in the public account behind “How Charity Navigator publishes ratings donors can inspect.” It describes Charity Navigator’s own work on evaluates charity transparency, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about charity evaluation.

The organization does not itself run food, health, or disaster programs. That is point 5 in the public account behind “How Charity Navigator publishes ratings donors can inspect.” It describes Charity Navigator’s own work on evaluates charity transparency, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about charity evaluation.

Its role is informational: publish assessments that help people decide where support is likely to be used well, and explain how those ratings are built. That is point 6 in the public account behind “How Charity Navigator publishes ratings donors can inspect.” It describes Charity Navigator’s own work on evaluates charity transparency, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about charity evaluation.

The details above are drawn from Charity Navigator's public materials, then retold here. They are not a financial audit, a ranking, or a promise about results the organization has not published on the pages used for this article.

For Charity Navigator’s own wording, use the official website linked from its Looty Foundation profile. This page explains the work in the Foundation directory and points back to that profile and to the other two articles about the same organization.