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.
I thought the same until last year. Give https://givewell.org a look, they rank charities by efficiency and provide lots of insight.
Do they rank them by whether or not they’ll spam you with physical mail and sell your email? I need an efficient charity that I can give to anonymously.
I send money to their funds directly, they distribute it according to their ranking. I got 2 reminder mails (last year and this year) and 1 mail with the donation receipt earlier this year.