[monroepe]

One thing you can do is contact the organizations and ask for some documents about what they are doing with the money and other data. All organizations waste money or use it ways you might not like. But I think you have to do some research. Ask for the data from the given organization and make an informed decision from there. Any non-profit should have this data available in some form for you.

You can't really control how they use it. But you can see what they accomplished in the past. Look at what they are planning for the next few years. And then evaluate at the end of the year and see if you feel like they did what they said they would.