I have a gripe I've not heard mentioned. If I donate a dollar to the NRA they spend 90 cents trying to get another dollar out of me. I don't need a solicitation three times a week to donate once or twice a year. How much are they spending on this?
A valid, and important, consideration.
How much of a charity donation do you (or anybody else) find to be an acceptable amount for administrative costs?
When looking through the Combined Federal Campaign Charity List, you can find tons of charitable organizations, a brief description of their purpose, and (importantly) a percentage number which represents how much of every donation goes towards the administrative costs of running the organization.
In general, whenever I donate, part of my criteria is a low (low single digit) percentage, if not zero. Other criteria is whether it's a local charity or not, if it's an organization which addresses a specific cause or group I find important, etc.
For example, there is an entry for PETA, which shows 11.7%. Almost 12 cents of every dollar goes towards the administrative costs of what PETA does. Many of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals are close to this. But there are plenty of animal societies, rescues, etc. which are less than this, especially local ones. Independent Animal Rescue Inc, listed on the Carolinas portion of the CFC list, is 8.5%
There are two NRA entries I found in the CFC Charity List for 2023:
10006 NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund (4.4%)
11872 The NRA Foundation Inc (27.4%)
I find 27.4% to be WAY too much for me. Understandable, given what the NRA does, because they have to have people administratively capable of performing all the things the NRA does and provides. That isn't a volunteer only type of thing at that level.