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When you discover your charity is mostly paying overhead

I have been sending money to a Syrian refugee family for two years through an organization but I found out most of it goes to administrative costs and I feel betrayed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery that charitable intentions have been diluted by institutional inefficiency creates both anger and disillusionment.

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