Giving Tuesday (Dec. 2, 2025) will soon kick off the holiday charitable giving season. If you’re planning to make donations, take steps to ensure you don’t give them to fake charities. So if you aren’t donating to a charity you already know, ask for the exact name, website and mailing address, and independently confirm that information. Then verify that the nonprofit is a legitimate tax-exempt organization on the IRS’s website: https://bit.ly/4a3zqRc. You might also want to visit a watchdog site, such as CharityWatch or Charity Navigator, to learn where donations go, how efficiently the charity uses its funding and whether it’s been accused of any misconduct.
