BlogSpot: Donors Wonder Where Their Money Goes

U.K. researchers once asked donors to guess, "What percentage of your gift does your favourite charity spend on its fundraising activities, rather than on programmes?"

Prepare yourself.

Donors — yes, donors — believed that most of their gifts, fully 65 percent, never went into the field. It was instead ploughed back into fundraising and related overheads, leaving only a small share, a mere 35 percent, for changing the world.