Charities With the Highest Admin Costs
10. The Center for Individual Rights has been removed from this list. Following the article's publication, CIR contested their inclusion and provided Charity Navigator with an updated itemized list of their administrative and program expenses. As a result of the update, CIR's administrative expenses for FY2008 dropped from 46.1% to 9.7% (as reflected in the functional expenses section of the CIR page on Charity Navigator).
Administrative expenses: 47.4%
Changed Lives is a Christian organization based in Tennessee whose message of Biblical values is broadcast streaming over the internet to followers around the world. Carried by speaker Ben Haden, who began his broadcasting career at NBC in 1967, Changed Lives features video lectures on a number of spiritual topics and distributes Bibles and other religious literature for free to its supporters. While the organization’s revenues have increased over the last three reported years, its overhead has more than kept pace, pushing administrative expenses to over 47 percent of the group’s 2008 budget of around $790,000.
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Administrative expenses: 48.7%
Another evangelical organization, Vision New England works with a network of over 5,000 churches to advance its goal of supporting and improving upon pastors’ efforts to increase bring more New Englanders to faith in Jesus. It does this through seminars and prayer groups throughout the region. The group’s $1.4 million budget in 2008 was significantly lower than the previous two fiscal years, but a significant rise in administrative costs during that same period brought overhead costs up to 48.7 percent of total expenses.
