This from the RC website:

"The fact is an average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in our humanitarian services and programs. We calculate it by comparing our overall spending on programs to our overall spending on fundraising and management and general.

For example, Red Cross total spending in FY15 was $2,896.8M. Of that, Red Cross spent $302.9M on fundraising and management and general. When you compare the two figures, you see that fundraising and management and general were about 10% of our total spending, which means about 90% was invested in our humanitarian services and programs. If you average that over the past five years, the percentage works out to about 91 cents.

How did we invest the dollars we spent on humanitarian services and programs in FY 2015? Here is the breakdown from our audited financial statements:

a. $1,869.1 million - Collect, test, manufacture, and distribute 7 million units of blood products

b. $356.5 million – Respond to disasters – nearly 66,000 per year

c. $48.7 million – Provide more than 352,000 emergency services to our armed forces and their families

d. $146.6 million - Deliver preparedness, health and safety courses like First Aid and CPR

e. $129.8 million – Fund international relief programs

f. $43.1 million – Fund community services (e.g., food banks, transportation programs)"


Doesn't look to bad to me so why all the dissing, Rogno?


Also, see below from Direct Relief:

"Charity Score
1 Direct Relief 100.00
2 Map International 100.00
3 Samaritan’s Purse 98.23
4 Americares 97.59
5 Catholic Medical Mission Board 97.23
6 The Rotary Foundation 97.17
7 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association 97.17
8 Caring Voice Coalition Inc. 96.66
9 United Nations Foundation 96.18
10 Conservation International 95.90

As to the Red Cross (RC). It was organized AFTER the Swiss Croix Rouge (CR). Each country has its own organization. The Middle East countries have the 'Red crescent' (RC). The CR was purely made to rescue military and has since been extended to civilians. The red crosses painted on military hospitals and ambulance come from that.

All RC are regrouped into a single entity the International CR and moved from Switzerland to the US where the political slant started. Note that various national RCs were nationalistic outfits in the early 1900s.

Since each country has its own under different organization the level of corruption differs from being fully rotten to incredibly efficient. The average is in the upper middle, the US being in the lower range, as we are in many other areas that concern the citizen welfare. After all American are 'strong self sufficient individuals that can take care of themselves'. We pay a high price for that mentality both in medical cost and quality of services rendered ~ unless you can pay.