{"id":17993,"date":"2024-05-10T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=17993"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:50:03","slug":"smilehub-rates-the-best-charities-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/05\/smilehub-rates-the-best-charities-for-2024.html","title":{"rendered":"SmileHub Rates the Best Charities for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18005\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2024\/05\/best-charities-donate-credit-shutterstock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18005\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2024\/05\/best-charities-donate-credit-shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"charity\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2022, Americans donated an estimated $499 billion to charity. Our united generosity supports several different causes every year, but donations aren&#8217;t keeping up with inflationary pressure. Charitable giving is actually down year over year after adjusting for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of charities, which can make it challenging to decide which ones to donate to. Taking that into account, along with the impact of inflation, SmileHub did the work to find the best options for worthy causes in several categories. They compared almost 30,000 charities based on their SmileHub rating, which includes five categories: management overhead, financial health, program efficiency, fundraising efficiency, and transparency. They also identified the best organizations to donate to overall, by size and for each of the most prevalent causes.<\/p>\n<p>According to SmileHub, the top 20 national charities are the following:<\/p>\n<table width=\"634\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1. Optica<\/td>\n<td>11.\u00a0ASTM International<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2. Aga Khan Foundation<\/td>\n<td>12.\u00a0MedShare<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3. Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust<\/td>\n<td>13.\u00a0EY Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4. Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital<\/td>\n<td>14.\u00a0WaterStone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)<\/td>\n<td>15.\u00a0Mather Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6. The United States Olympic Endowment<\/td>\n<td>16. Foundation Housing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7. Research to Prevent Blindness<\/td>\n<td>17. St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8.\u00a0Volunteers of America National Services<\/td>\n<td>18. Rockefeller Family Fund<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9.\u00a0Veterans United Foundation<\/td>\n<td>19.\u00a0American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.\u00a0MAP International<\/td>\n<td>20. Friends of the Children<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/osCUTGkKVRg?si=u_3g-V-p3q_t2J6d\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The best charities by category are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animals:\u00a0Friends of the Zoo of Kansas City Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Arts:\u00a0Foundation for the Flint Cultural Center<\/li>\n<li>Children:\u00a0Misericordia Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Community Support:\u00a0Housing Catalyst<\/li>\n<li>Disaster Relief:\u00a0Wesley Chapel Volunteer Fire Department<\/li>\n<li>Economic Development:\u00a0Guidestream Charitable Gift Fund<\/li>\n<li>Education:\u00a0Array Education<\/li>\n<li>Environmental Protection:\u00a0Global Water Challenge<\/li>\n<li>Faith &amp; Religious Support:\u00a0First Presbyterian Church of Dallas Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Health &amp; Wellness:\u00a0Abington Memorial Hospital Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Homeless Support:\u00a0Sacramento Steps Forward<\/li>\n<li>International Support:\u00a0Interweave Solutions<\/li>\n<li>Reducing Poverty:\u00a0Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP)<\/li>\n<li>Research:\u00a0Kacyra Family Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Rights &amp; Activism:\u00a0Follow Your Dream\u00a0Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Sports &amp; Recreation:\u00a0TaxSlayer Gator Bowl<\/li>\n<li>Veterans:\u00a0Louisiana National Guard Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To view the full report, <a href=\"https:\/\/smilehub.org\/blog\/best-charities\/97\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, Americans donated an estimated $499 billion to charity. Our united generosity supports several different causes every year, but donations aren&#8217;t keeping up with inflationary pressure. Charitable giving is actually down year over year after adjusting for inflation. 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