Should Donors Care About Overhead Costs? Do They Care?

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Who gives what and when? A scenario study of intentions to give time and money (2010, unknown): “by paying large salaries for CEOs, corruption or other misgivings, public support declines rapidly (Arumi et al., 2005; Bowman, 2006).”
Building Nonprofit Financial Capacity (2014, background): “Surplus revenues provide nonprofits “the wherewithal to seize opportunities and react to unexpected threats” (Bowman, 2011, p. 38). We therefore model financial capacity in the following three ways: Percentage growth in total revenue. This measure is consistent with Foster and Fine’s and Yan et al.’”
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, result): “The analyses reported in Bryant et al. (2003) suggest this; however, because this study is based on survey data it may also reflect self-selection of these respondents.”
Anatomy of the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle (2012, unknown): “These expenses are often evaluated as part of a ratio, with the numerator being the total overhead costs and the denominator either total expenses (Bowman, 2006) or total revenue (Bedsworth et al., 2008).”