Charity Navigator

Our 4-Star Charity Navigator Rating

The Museum of the City of New York is proud to have earned a coveted 4-star rating on Charity Navigator, the nation's leading charity evaluator. Attaining the highest possible rating demonstrates the Museum’s strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency. Donors may give to the Museum in confidence, knowing that we manage our resources very efficiently and adhere to best practices in the non-profit sector. Only about a quarter of rated charities have achieved this distinction! 

Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator has become the nation's largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. Charity Navigator has developed an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system to assess over 8,000 of America's best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities.

Specifically, Charity Navigator's rating system examines two broad areas of a charity's performance; their Financial Health and their Accountability & Transparency. The ratings show givers how efficiently we believe a charity will use their support today, how well it has sustained its programs and services over time and their level of commitment to good governance, best practices and openness with information. Charity Navigator provides these ratings so that charitable givers/ social investors can make intelligent giving decisions, and so that the nonprofit sector can improve its performance.

Charity Navigator accepts no funding from the charities that they evaluate, ensuring that the ratings remain objective. Furthermore, in Charity Navigator’s commitment to help America's philanthropists of all levels make informed giving/ social investment decisions, they refuse to charge users for this trusted data.