# Irish Times compares fundraising costs of 17 charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/01/22/irish-times-compares-fundraising-costs-of-17-charities/
- Published: 2016-01-22T14:40:49+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A report in the Irish Times has compared fundraising expenditure by 17 charities.
At the top of the list is The National Council for the Blind in Ireland which, claims
the newspaper, spends a third of its income on fundraising.**

At the other end of the scale the report showed that elderly charity Alone spent
nothing on fundraising and St Vincent de Paul, one of Ireland’s largest fundraising
charities, spent just 1% on fundraising.

The report, which surveyed 17 charities, focused on how much a charity spent on 
its services for every €1 donated which included fundraising and governance. On 
that criteria, the Irish Heart Foundation, with a spend of 28 cents for every euro
on fundraising and 8 cents on governance, had the lowest amount allocated to charitable
services at 64 cents.

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Other charities reporting a higher spend on fundraising were the Irish Cancer Society(
25 cents) and the Samaritans (24.5 cents).

[The Irish Times’](http://www.irishtimes.com) report acknowledges that there is 
no standard definition of the expenditure categories so charities may not be comparing
the same things when it comes to costs. Another factor in the percentage spent on
fundraising is the amount a charity receives from government, with those charities
receiving less state income having to spend more to raise money.

Charities which have a charity shop network also typically spend more on fundraising
because shops have high overheads, the report notes.

 

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