Is This How A Charity Should Operate?
Unbeknownst to donors, many on - and offline car donation charities are really just middlemen. They sell their services by calling themselves a charity, when in actuality all they do is share with a charity—and the dollar figures aren't great. The organizations that operate in this way convince you to give (which is good), receive your vehicle donation, then sell it at a profit (since they've invested nothing). The middleman himself takes a huge cut. A charity does get some portion in most cases, but it is only a very small percentage of the vehicle proceeds.

With their small percentage, the charities then go about paying staff and operating expenses, taking another cut, and give what's left to the people and organizations they 'support'. In the end, only between one and ten percent of your original donation actually reaches people with needs.

In the worst of cases, these charity donation set-ups are just facades for companies calling themselves charities, and little good is done. Recently it has been brought to the publics attention that a few well known car donation programs are playing on the facade they are helping kids, using kids in their domain name, advertising on billboards and radio jingles, are using all of the profits to slyly use the proceeds to help a specific type of "kid", specifically Orthodox Jewish children..

We Are a Non-denominational Charitable Organization - We Help Anyone in Need!

Car Donation Online does not do things this way. We do not hire donations out to middlemen; we handle all car donations ourselves, only using peripheral services if we need them. That means we see to the disposition of the vehicle ourselves, and do not wait for our cut from what amounts to a used-car salesman.

In many cases, we are able to go a step further and not make money at all; sometimes we can just rehabilitate a vehicle and give it to a deserving person—a parent or a veteran, perhaps—who needs it to get a job and support their family, or to get to doctor's appointments. Whenever possible, we do this first.

When we do profit from a car donation, we put as much of that money as possible in the hands of the needy. We keep operating costs low, use as much volunteer help as we can, and only maintain the bare minimum of expenses. We put that money into our 'With Causes' charitable network and fund things like leukemia research, veterans' programs, schools, community services, and individuals with real needs.

Donors And Recipients Lend Their Praise Of Online Car Donation

We love it when we get compliments, and over the years we have been humbled by many. Donors have told us how wonderful the benefits of donating with a real, worthwhile organization are, and fund and vehicle recipients have told us what a difference we've made in their lives; it is not uncommon for us to hear that we've put the first smile on the face of a beneficiary in months! Won't you please help us do more?