Best Veteran Contribution Program?

[rbeau30]

My friend has some $$$ burnin a hole in his pocket and wants to know what the best, least-overhead, bang for the buck organization he can donate to to help veterans in need. By least overhead I mean where your $$ goes to actually helping the vets, and not feed the machine such as what I'm sure happens with all that pink ribbon stuff for breast cancer.

I did a weak search and didn't see a similar thread, and because it's an important topic please go easy on me, repost/search police.

Mkay, this will give him some homework, but it is reliable info.

Have him look up the Combined Federal Campaign. Basically it is a federal charity drive that happens annually. While only federal employees can only donate through the CFC, the info on the brochure for the available charities could be useful.

The brochure http://www.peakcfc.com/files/2012_Final_Bochure.pdf I could only find 2012 but the Pikes Peak chapter of the CFC allows you to look up charities online. The info given to the government to become an "authorized charity" for donationg to during this campaign is along the lines of what you are looking for. IE: how much of my money actually goes towards helping people, etc.


For example if you look up the Wounded Warrior Project on there the Administrative and Fund Raising expenses is 25.1%... that means 25.1% of his money will go to admin and more fund raising.