I was thinking about it. I donate to quite a few charities, but they specifically mean something to me. Others I don't really think about, though they're good. I guess we all have a threshold or we'd be broke and for many that could be no donations at all or just a fiver the the street guy.
No, but I donate time and sometimes items. I’ve seen how wasteful so many “charities” are. When less than half of what is donated actually goes to the end user that’s a problem. So I donate things that have to go to the end user, or at the very least in support of the end user.
Yeah, it's tricky that, especially with international stuff. When something kicks off internationally and suddenly a bajillion charity groups appear, it's troublesome.
And it's my rule of thumb to just disregard anything from a religion, I won't even bother checking into them. Whenever there's been a charity called out for being evil, it's ironically Christian-based.