Non-profits are money laundering schemes. Look at who gives to these big charities, who starts the foundations, and what they get from them. I'm not one to use absolute generalizations like the word ALL, but 99.9% of charities are not right. This includes your local church... If the gov gives you a benefit (off your taxes or otherwise) for doing it, you should question who its benefiting. I'll give you a hint they are not doing it to encourage you get the warm fuzzies from "giving back"... Oh yeah, and If your local church was a real church, they would not be organized as a non-profit corp.