As I noted on the 80,000 Hours thread, intermediaries are nearly always an added expense on the distribution side. In this case, distribution of donations. The immediate impact is that fewer donation dollars (or whatever currency) find their way to the target organizations.
A good source that backs you up on this is Fiennes’s book ” It Ain’t What You Give, It’s the Way That You Give It: Making Charitable Donations That Get Results” (which I strongly recommend for anyone interesting in the issues of rational charity giving).
A good source that backs you up on this is Fiennes’s book ” It Ain’t What You Give, It’s the Way That You Give It: Making Charitable Donations That Get Results” (which I strongly recommend for anyone interesting in the issues of rational charity giving).