[ad] Blackbaud - supercharge your fundraising programmes - download now

Rattled confidence: charity fundraising costs

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 21 October 1999 | News

Are charities spending too much on fundraising? The eternal question for fundraisers is given a new spin by a report from Directory of Social Change published today.

The report, “Fundraising Costs”, claims that the 500 top charities spend not 9% on fundraising as reported by Charities Aid Foundation, but 19%. This recalculation is based not on comparing charities’ fundraising expenditure with total income, but on the donated income directly generated.

The report is available by sending a 49p SAE to the DSC. Unfortunately it does not appear to be published on the DSC’s original Web site or its new one.

Advertisement

Great Fundraising Organizations book - available now

Read David Brindle’s report in The Guardian

Related posts

UK Fundraising
29 October 1997

Putting it all in perspective
UK Fundraising
15 September 2005

Macmillan thanks National Gardens Scheme for 20 years' support
UK Fundraising
31 July 2005

CAF launches pilot regional campaign to promote giving
UK Fundraising
9 March 2018

6 lessons for fundraisers from digital will-writing

Loading

Howard Lake

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

Mastodon