Charity Navigator’s Release Notes
Launched new Impact Ratings, in collaboration with True Impact
Introduced 3 new metrics
– Impact Model (scored).
– Cost Per Outcome (Currently Unscored).
– Data Quality (scored).
General
– Updated ratings with new data.
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– Updated ratings with new data.
New: Enhanced Encompass Rating System
– More Depth: By combining new and updated metrics, we now score 49 metrics across 10 evaluation areas, providing a more robust scoring system.
– Better Visibility: Instantly spot profile completion with new Beacon Indicators and Profile Banners.
To learn more, please refer to this blog post.
General
– Updated ratings with new data.
General
– Updated ratings with new data.
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– Updated ratings with new data.
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– Updated ratings with new data.
– Removed impact ratings based on Impact Genome data.
General
– Updated ratings with new data.
– Introduced a new, information-only Benefits Rate metric for organizations that have >40% in donor support and over $2 million in annual revenue.
General
– Updated ratings with new data.
– Fixed a bug where a subset of organizations with <50% program expense ratios received credit for financial metrics.
Culture & Community
– Removed Equity Strategies Checklist Assessment
General
– Updated ratings with new data.
General
– Updated ratings with new data.
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– Updated ratings with new data.
General
– Calculated new ratings utilizing new 990 data and nonprofit submissions.
Impact & Measurement
– Added submission data to Measurement section.
– Added partial credit indicators.
– Changed display so that pages without a Measurement score do not show the metrics.
Culture & Community and Leadership & Adaptability
– Revised language on Equity Strategies Checklist on our website.
Culture & Community
– Constituent Feedback Scoring Methodology was modified as follows: If an organization answered ‘no’ to Question 1 of the How We Listen survey, they are no longer eligible for a Constituent Feedback Score.
Accountability & Finance
– Donor Advised Funds (DAF) Rating Eligibility – DAFs were determined to be ineligible for a rating due to their unusual financial structure.
Impact & Measurement
– The first set of scores for the Measuring Outcomes Assessment was published for 750 nonprofits.
Rating Profile Pages
– The presentation of the ratings for the Impact & Measurement, Leadership & Adaptability, Culture & Community were harmonized and updated.
Culture & Community
– Expanding criteria to include 1 & 2 practices as eligible scores
– Restructured Equity Strategies Checklist scoring scale from 80-100 to 73-100 linear scale.
Accountability & Finance
– All eligible organizations are given a size classification based on their e-filed 990 data. Size classifications are based on annual revenue.
– All elibile organizations are assigned additional properties based on their e-filed 990 data.
– All eligible organizations are scored on a new methodology based on their size and assigned properties.
– ~9,000 organizations whose Accountability & Finance scores were harmed due to an abnormal fiscal year in 202 or 2021 had the detrimental 990 dropped from the 3-year average.
Impact & Measurement
– Released 332 Impact & Results scores based on data submitted to Impact Genome.
– Updates 135 existing scores, making adjustments for inflation and new research.
– Released 274 new Impact & Results scores.
– Launched test version of the Capacity for Impact Measurement assessment – charities can enter data but will not be scored.