The Cost of Charitable Relief
It is often charged that too large a proportion of the receipts of our great religious benevolent societies are squandered in the expenses of collection and management, and that worldly people do their business much more economically. We have a case in point. The Brooklyn Daily Union, of April 18, affirms that the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections for the county of Kings, New York, sets this example: “That, making all allowances, it has cost $245,487 of the people’s gifts to distribute $266,961, including temporary as well as institutional relief, and that in our county institutions alone it has cost $190,415 to distribute $178,927, of which costs, nearly $90,000 was for official salaries.”